Reviews

• Angela R.

  My experience with Ray has been incredible! He is an excellent addition to JOSEPH'S Toiletries team, and has done an incredible job with the work he has done with us. We are forever grateful to have worked with him and look forward to continuing working together.

  Dec 10, 2014Verified

• Michael S.

  Ray Cabarga is a talented and experienced graphic artist. He successfully completed 7 assignments for us , we are planning additional work with him in 2014. Highly recommended.

  Dec 30, 2013Verified

  Ray C.'s reply

  Thank you Mike! It was a great pleasure, and I look forward to assisting you in the future. Ray

• Kim P.

  Ray was great! He worked with me on pricing, always got back to me timely, gave me multiple logo options and excellent guidance. Turn around time was amazing. He took all of my requests and came up with the PERFECT LOGO! I won't use anyone else for any other graphic art needs. ..and neither should you! $ workable, great turnaround, excellent guidance...what more do you want? Oh yea, and he's really a nice guy! :)

  Oct 26, 2013Verified

  Ray C.'s reply

  Thanks Kim! It was a fun project and I agree, together we did come up with the perfect logo. It's going in my portfolio in fact! Ray

• Lighter C.

  Ray Cabarga has done lot of work for me and it has improved my business. His writing, illustration and design skills are excellent. I highly recommend his service.

  Sep 26, 2013Verified

  Ray C.'s reply

  Thanks Lighter, Not sure why it says "offsite review," I think you were my first thumbtack client and I've been working for you ever since. Ray

• Lawrence N.

  Fantastic work, needed a very special job done in a short peperiod of time. Ray handled it well saved the project.

  Sep 24, 2013Verified

  Ray C.'s reply

  Thank you Lawrence, the pleasure was all mine! Ray

• What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
  I peruse the trade journals and look for articles pertaining to my business. Keeping my programs updated tends to help because I maintain a thorough knowledge of the features as they are revised, added, or updated. I also like to check out my competitors work and when I see them doing something I haven't tried, a new technique or what have you, I'll figure out how they did it and somewhere down the line I'll have a use for it. Usually I come up with the new method before they do though, haha. When you spend as many hours doing this stuff as I do each day you don't miss too much. There's always more to learn though.
• How did you get started doing this type of work?
  It's the family business. My dad was an art director for several major ad firms for 45 years. My older brother is an accomplished commercial artist. I had a good career as a studio musician but always did art on the side till age 25 when there was a lot more demand for artists than there was for trumpeters. The problem with being a musician is you have to hang out with musicians, haha! Funny thing is when I was 6 thru 12 you couldn't pry me away from my desk where I would spend long hours drawing detailed renderings of everything from architectural elevations to auto parts—I did that for fun! It was as though I was just waiting for them to invent the computer. I was a strange kid, I know.
• What types of customers have you worked with?
  I have a varied clientele, but lately I've been doing a lot of branding, event branding, corporate or small business. Cd cover designs, digipaks. Kiosk graphics and product packaging. illustrations for everything from t-shirts to technical spec drawings. I'd like to do more childrens book illustrations, and I also build things. Miniatures are my strength because I don't have the strength to build big things. A bit of everything. No monuments, nothing gargantuan.