Hello.

My name is Cristian Landero, I'm 22 years old and I was born in the southernmost country of Central America – Panama. I am a freelance website developer, graphic designer, and illustrator. My aim is to create vibrant and detailed designs. For the last two years I've been doing freelance work as a website designer and XHTML/CSS coder.

My creative talent was noted during my age of 5 by my family, my school teachers and friends. I was chosen many times by my school to represent them in drawing contests held localy and I participated in many inside school activities were creativity had to be involved. I designed my first website back in 1998. Since then I've spent a lot of time on my computer to learn how to do what you see here. Yes, I am self-taught and I can be found working on other areas besides web and graphic design such as traditional and digital art.

While creating site designs I try to work closely with the clients and pay much attention to preparatory work. I like to hand in perfectly crafted works and you can trust me when I say that I wilI work on my client's projects as if they were mine. I usually enjoy every project I am involved in and at the end I'll be happy only if my client is happy.


Web History.

I am the designer and owner of In Mind Creations. A project launched back in 2006 and a 6+ award winning website. Thanks to In Mind Creations and the efforts I poured into creating the project, it opened many doors for me in the graphic design and new media industry, getting me my first job in an ad agency. I never got around to updating it that much after its release but even though that happened and still does, In Mind Creations still brings me job offers to my door. I have created this new website to showcase the commercial bit side I have. However, In Mind Creations will remain to be my main domain, a website that showcases me as an artist, not as a designer, a place where I fall out of what is "in" in web design and where I follow my own trends to deliver the visions I have in my head. In Mind Creations is a place where all of the works that you see here do not fit there.


Awards.

Throughout the years I have earned some awards for my projects. Here's how the list goes...

• New Web Pick Award
• Pixel Makers Award
• World Web Award of Excellence - ArtSpace 2000
• My Design Award
• Style Award
• Webmaster Award
• CG Arena Excellence Award
• Premio Neo Arts
• Daily Deviation Awards (3) for "Pisces", "Leviathan & Esednahea", and "Trapped".


Features.

My work has been featured on the following websites, news articles, magazines and events.

• PageCrush
• Linkas
• MavenArts
• Strangefruits
• Net Culture
• 5D Dog
• StumbleUpon
• Invite
• Body Collector
• 'Seeing Double Again' News article by DeviantART.
• 'Photomanipulation (Digital Art)' News article by DeviantART.
• 'Themed Features No.3: Hair (Digital Art)' News article by DeviantART.
• Panama Golden @ Awards 2006
• It's Art Magazine
• CG Channel


Equipment Details.

I am using a Windows XP Professional computer with an 800x600 to 1280x1024 resolution monitor and an Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU processor of 3.20 GHz. I use a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet and a Panasonic DMC-FS3 Digital Camera of 8.1 megapixels. I test websites on Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 and Opera.


Softwares.

• Photoshop CS2
• Photoshop Elements 4.0
• ImageReady CS2
• Adobe Bridge
• Corel Painter Essentials 3
• Dreamweaver 8
• Flash 8
• Camtasia Studio 5
• Windows Movie Maker
• CoreFTP


The Website.

CristianLandero.com was registered on March 3, 2008. It is hosted by Dreamhost and it is best viewed with Mozilla Firefox. Developed using PHP, valid XHTML and CSS. All handcoded in Adobe Dreamweaver. Credits go out to Dynamic Drive for providing some of the scripts used on this website, Martin for helping me out with the online visitors counter, Shoutmix for the shoutbox found on my contact page, and a big THANKS to Google Analytics for providing the invisible counter which is currently tracking your visits. All graphics were designed by me using Adobe Photoshop therefore copyrighted to myself. Please read the disclaimer if you haven't, it is very important that you do. Thanks!