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About Valentina
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Entrepreneur / Designer / Illustrator / Cute Specialist

Currently specializing in kawaii “cute” digital vector pop art design and illustration.

Born and raised in Coral Gables, Florida, Valentina is a creative designer, illustrator and cute specialist - with a formal education in visual fine arts, product design, illustration and has a wide variety of interests and disciplines.

She is an award and prize-winning, self taught and self-directed vector designer who specializes in cute, colorful, seasonal and whimsical Kawaii Vector Pop Art design and illustration; integrating elements of Japanese minimalism and 'cute'- ( a national Japanese fixation ) with classic American rendering techniques creating her singular style. She also freelances from time to time.

Contact Bleuh Meuh Design

Valentina works strictly from her prolific imagination. She hand sketches a vector, a single design that stands alone. Further, she extrapolates from this object and ideates thematically related, complimentary kawaii designs, hence, creating a series of vector subjects.

She continues propagating the images and proceeds to arrange them, step-by-step, into a vector world ruled by massive proportions, a custom palette, perspective, depth, line, etc... She brings spirit, yummy and cute to a variety of creatures and inanimate objects and takes vector pop art into a clean, bright light and perfection thereby creating a specific "cuteness" that magically comes together with a bang!

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What is the Vector Art/Medium ?
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"Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics” - Wikipedia.org

It's basically techy art consisting of shapes and the hi-resolution relationship that is kept between them.

Valentina is also known as Bleuh Meuh Design. A blue, ice cream cow, her first vector piece, propelled her online design entity:

"Bleuh Meuh and Kawaii Universe" came about as an inspiration/dedication to the loving memory of my great-grandmother, who deeply enjoyed my art, and like me, was extremely fond of cows, food, and nature. -Valentina

Her Kawaii Universe - Bleuh Meuh Design line offers her Kawaii vector creations in an extensive array of products & apparel.; Messenger bags, tees for your dog, form-fitting Tees for girls, buttons, stickers and much more!! So, if you are a fan of colorful, high-end vector designs involving cute food (cakes, fruits, veggies), seasonal subjects, whimsical creatures and more. You'll love collecting Kawaii Universe we invite you to check out the The Shop!

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FEATURES
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*Featured - DeviantART.com > #Digital-Artists > Vector Design
*Featured - LACDA.com > Snap to Grid Show > LA Art Walk -2010
*Featured - Cafepress.com > Gift Center > Gifts by Designers
*Featured - Freshchracters.com > Kawaii Cupcakes
*Featured - Coroflot.com > Vector Design
*Featured - Carbonmade.com > Top Portfolios
*Featured – TheInsider.com > Graphic Designers To Keep An Eye On
*Featured - DeviantART.com > Numerous Vector Art & Artist Articles
*Featured - imagezoo.com > Imagezoo Spark Blog > New Artists

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ACCLAIMS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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* Official Disney and Hayao Miyazaki “Ponyo – Make A Splash” Online Banner AD Design Contest - Most popular out of +10,000 submissions - Deviantart.com 2010

* Awarded the International deviantART.com " Golden Pen Award " in the Vector Category : "Objects" 2009

* Winner of National NVIDIA “ Speaks Visual ™ ” Contest in the Vector Art Category 2009

* Top 10 Finalist of National “Design the DEW®” Mountain Dew Green Bottle Label Art Contest – Deviantart.com 2008

* Honorable Mention “Think Pink” Breast Cancer Awareness Design Contest Deviantart.com 2008

• DeviantART.com : Featured in numerous Vector Art & Digital Art /Media Articles / User Featured Articles

• ValentinaCrespo.Deviantart.com - Deviant art Gallery Stats - has 186,606 unique front page previews total and her 437 deviations (art pieces) have been viewed 1,238,328 times!

Valentina Crespo Awarded International "2008 Golden Pen Award"

"The Golden Pen Award is the equivalent of the Oscar for the Vector Community. The Golden Pen Award will be presented annually by the deviantART Directors of the Vector Gallery to recognize excellence in the vector medium." -deviantARTcom. There are awards for the following vector sub categories: Abstract, Animals, Objects, People and Vehicles.

"If you browse the vector gallery any given week you are sure to come across one of Valentina's Kawaii pop vectors. Her dedication to her art really knows no bounds and it truly shows. Her style is unique and colorful and you can't help but find them adorable in their own right. The Golden Pen Award for the Object Vector gallery is awarded to Valentina Crespo. May she continue to amaze us with her cute Kawaii vectors."

~Chris deviantART Community Relations Vector Art Gallery Director

Valentina Crespo Winner of National NVIDIA Contest "Speak Visual"

NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies and inventor of GPU, teams up with deviantART creating an artist competition challenging its artist community to explore the digital divide, and answer...What does it mean to Speak Visualâ„¢?"

NVIDIA judges were seeking artists who could create awe-inspiring entries with visual impact...and all entries must incorporate "the claw", the abstract version of the NVIDIA logo.

Five winners from five art categories (Vector Art, Fractal Art, Digital Painting, 3-D Art, and Pixel Art) were selected from 50 semi-finalists by David Wright, Creative Director, NVIDIA and Fabio Costa, Creative Director, Cutwater, a creative agency out of San Francisco. The judges’ decision was based on Visual Impact (40%), Originality (20%), Technical Skill (20%) and the How does my art Speak Visual essay component (20%)

Her winning entry, a vector of an instrument she designed and devised that 'translates the octave of music to the spectrum of light and communicates the eight levels of human consciousness and emotion.