Born at Clark Air Base, Philippines, and grew up in Santa Barbara, CA., Jonathan is a sought out artist, illustrator, and designer, in addition to being a U.S. Air Force member, full-time student, and entrepreneur. Jonathan Rojas is the founder, and CEO of his fashion design company DPLOYD®, which specializes in a new, modern, urban clothing line, inspired by the military.
A seasoned designer, Jonathan has been drawing and designing marketable products since the beginning of junior high, experimenting with different studies such as graphic, and fashion design. As years have gone by, Jonathan has been recognized on several occasions for his creativity and diligence in exceeding his client's expectations. With just less than a year in the Air Force, he was awarded the Visual Information Category Airman of the Year Award for his professionalism and dedication to the Visual Information career field, and furthermore received many accolades from his commanding officers, as well as his clients.
Jonathan is a well-rounded artist, and designer who refuses not to stop until his designs, and renditions are graphically perfect. He continues to build his already impressive portfolio in many different areas of graphic, product, and industrial design, and is ready and eager to test his knowledge with other forms of design mediums.
JONATHAN ROJAS
Specialties:
Industrial, Graphic, Fashion design, 3D Modeling
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Who/what did you want to be when you were a child? Optimus Prime! How’s that going for you? Haha, still working on it. What are your current aspirations? To finish my degree at Arizona State in Industrial Design, and then earn my masters in design, have my own design firm, design shoes, watches, snowboards, and anything I can think of for DPLOYD. Any upcoming projects? Working with one of the freshest photographer, Steven Tang on our next DPLOYD photo shoot...it’s going to be inspiring. Your motto? I can do it better. Your favorite object? My sunglasses. Describe your style. Fitted, tailored, unique, fresh, clean, clean-cut with a little scruff on the face; a DPLOYD shirt, Energie Jeans, Diesel kicks, and my newest Carrera specs. Your biggest fashion crime? Not matching the right colors together. If you were to compare DPLOYD to other brands, what would they be? Well, of course DPLOYD isn’t like any other brand, but I would say Diesel, Energie, G-Star, Orthodox, Lova, Shades of Greige, just to name a few brands I look up to, and that I also wear. Who would you like to thank? God, family, close friends, and everyone that has supported me, and will support me in the future, I thank them a head of time. And I also thank you for reading this!
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