Paperwallet – Artist-Designed Tyvek Wallets

I strive to create a unique illustrative style of tattoo designs that are valid within and outside of the tattoo context. Images that convey meaning and emotion and bring a gentle smile onto your face.

Manuel Cetina is a Mexican Art Director and Illustrator, focusing on music graphics and streetwear. His main influences include comics and horror movies.

We create identities with personality, lettering with flow, walls with depth and especially: everything in between.

It’s really important for me to stay surprised. I don’t see much point in making anything that I can predict.

I portray thoughts and feelings through simple characters and geometric abstract shapes, going from silly daily life epiphanies to surreal scenes with soothing gradients.

A picture, a sentence in a book or a scene I see on the road are all likely to attract my attention and lead me to a place I'd like to go.

Creativity... is not a constant. It comes and goes just like every other emotion. Like a surfer catching a wave and then waiting for the next one.

Life is joyful, devastating, and everything in between. But if you look closely, it's always bizarre.

Drawing is my main communication channel; I can express my feelings and thoughts easier through my pictures than with words.

I love how bits of my life, childhood memories, and the world around are mixing inside my head, and every time my hands are cooking a new art dish.

I draw, paint, print and overthink.