As a meticulous craftsman with a B.S. in Architectural Engineering, I blend an innate artistic sensibility with keen compositional awareness and technical training to achieve scale models, drawings, and custom designs and finishes on myriad objects, including bicycles, motorcycles, helmets, and fine art. My penchant for designing and constructing scale models has led me back to my roots in architecture, creating, editing, and interpreting AutoCAD drawings, in addition to designing custom object libraries in Adobe Illustrator to propose original visual styles for presentation drawings. I’m currently based in New York City, with regular residencies in Mexico City.
Cartesiano Studio (Jesus Lopez, architect), Mexico City, Model Maker/AutoCAD & Illustrator draftsman
Freelance architectural scale model maker/designer, and AutoCAD draftsman/Adobe Illustrator designer:
Worked from architectʼs AutoCAD drawings to independently design and build scale models for client presentations for multiple projects currently under construction
Edited working AutoCAD drawings in Illustrator to create custom object and texture libraries/standards for vegetation, paths, shadows, lineweights, etc. to propose a new visual style for presentation drawings
Architect Jesus Lopez is quickly growing an architectural practice from the Cartesiano Studio office at Av. de la Republica 55, in the heart of Mexico City, with multiple projects currently in construction:
jlsarquitecto@gmail.com
insta: @cartesiano.studio, @txutxo_
Básica Studio, Mexico City, Painter/instructor
Streamlined custom paint department
Organized/led in-person workshops in Spanish detailing entire bicycle paint
process
Designed and hand painted 64 sq. ft. mural
Ambassador for Básica in exchange program with Jacobo y María Ángeles Workshop, Oaxaca
Ben Falcon Paint/Horse Cycles, Brooklyn, NY, US, Lead painter (head of department/self employment)
Established custom paint department for Horse Cycles, expanding its paint operations to provide one-of-a-kind finishes for bicycle frames, motorcycles, helmets, artistʼs works,and furniture, using intricate vinyl paint masks developed in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, applying decals and special effect techniques
Coordinated, collaborated on designs, and executed projects for Google and other high-profile companies and artists, including KAWS, Public School New York, Joe Doucet, Tony Oursler, Tokyo Bikes, Cannondale, Seamless, Lime e-bikes/scooters
Designed original paint schemes and submitted detailed sketches to clients for review
Cielo by Chris King Precision Components, Portland, OR, US, Lead Painter
Established paint department for Cielo hand-built bicycle frames to transition the
company to an in-house facility, increasing creative control and productivity
Stripped and refinished 420 sq. ft. side-down flow spray booth
Streamlined paint process to exceed company benchmark during peak season
Developed and collaborated on designs for special edition paint schemes and show bikes
Seven Cycles, Inc., Watertown, MA, US, Lead Painter
Prepped, painted, and polished custom steel, titanium, and carbon fiber bicycle frames
Provided training for prospective painters within company
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, US, Bachelors, Architectural Engineering Technology (BAET)
Completed B.S. in Architectural Engineering Technology from W.I.T.: The program consisted of 4 1/2 yrs of architecture studies, including 2 semesters of internships, during which I worked as an AutoCAD draftsman for an architecture firm in Chelsea, MA., and estimator for a flooring subcontractor in Somerville, MA.
