ABOUT RICO
THE PERSON BEHIND GLYPHWORKS
Illustrator. Creative Director. Compulsive character maker.
HI, I'M RICO.
THE PERSON BEHIND THE GLYPHS
I'm an illustrator and Creative Director with a lifelong habit of drawing characters.
Some start with people I've seen. Some with music, culture or a place. Others arrive from nowhere and refuse to leave.
Glyphworks is where I give them somewhere to live.
Character work from the archives.
I'VE ALWAYS DRAWN CHARACTERS.
I've been drawing characters for as long as I can remember.
Faces, expressions, clothes, gestures the little things that make somebody instantly feel like somebody.
Over the years that instinct became a career in illustration and creative direction, but the fascination never really changed.
I'm still interested in the same thing: personality.
The difference is that now those characters are beginning to belong to something bigger.
SO I BUILT THEM A WORLD.
At some point, individual characters stopped feeling like enough.
For a long time I made illustrations as individual pieces.
But eventually I became more interested in what happened between them.
What if these characters belonged somewhere? What if they had their own worlds,
personalities and stories?
That's what Glyphworks became an independent illustrated universe built around characters,
culture, music, coffee and everyday life.
Not just things to look at. Characters to live with.
Same character. A few wrong turns. Eventually, the right personality.
AND IT'S STILL GROWING.
Glyphworks isn’t a finished project.
And I don’t think I want it to be.
New characters appear. Ideas turn into worlds.
Some drawings become prints, products or editions.
Others simply become part of the story.