Creative Vision. Artfully Engineered.
I craft thoughtful, high-impact digital experiences for businesses and creatives—where design meets strategy, and creativity drives results.
I Help Companies
I’m Mike Tapia—designer, illustrator, developer, and digital strategist with 20+ years of experience helping brands and creatives bring big ideas to life online. Whether I’m sketching in a studio or leading a dev project, I thrive at the intersection of craft and clarity.
For over a decade, I worked at an in-house team in an oil and gas company, creating award-winning work for a broad range of product lines across industries.
I have years of experience bringing imaginative concepts, strategies, and campaigns from the online/digital environment to the legal industry.
I am also the creator behind Brush & Bytes—a space for empowering artists in the digital world and Founder of OnceDivided—your partner for marketing and creative services.
What I bring to the table
From solo artists to growing teams, I deliver handcrafted solutions that look beautiful and perform even better.
STRATEGY
I help you identify customer problems, generate solutions, and validate ideas, leading to confident business decisions and successful campaign development.
DEVELOPMENT
As an experienced team lead, I provide guidance and direction to development teams to ensure they produce outstanding work. My objective is to strike a balance between maintaining websites, developing architectures, and front-end development. To stay focused, I rely on a product strategy that informs us of what to build and why we should build it.
DESIGN
I design branding assets that connect customer needs with business goals in a meaningful way. I create landing pages, emails, marketing collateral, and advertising using UX and UI design to make products and services come to life.
CREATIVE
With a background in art I am capable of providing illustration work with experience in print & merch design along with creating memorable brand identities.
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OnceDivided
On-demand design & development creative partner to evolve your business.
Brush & Bytes
Creative consulting dedicated to providing valuable marketing insights, tips, and resources to artists and creatives.
Studioworks
I create for the digital and the tangible
Digitalworks
MadGeek
Art Direction / Design / Branding
Branding and style guide for MadGeek - a clothing brand for fans of pop culture.
Artworks
WORKING TOGETHER
Evolve. Succeed. Repeat. with OnceDivided
We believe in the transformative power of creative services and the impact it has on your business.
OnceDivided offers reliable design, development, and digital marketing project delivery for a flat monthly fee, eliminating the need for costly agencies and unreliable freelancers, begging the question… why hasn’t it always been like this?
Subscribe & request as many projects as you’d like.
Receive your project within a few business days on average, Monday to Friday.
We’ll revise the designs or tasks until you’re 100% satisfied.
Decode
Your resource for web and digital marketing tips, trends, and strategies to help you build a successful business.
Let's Make Something
BOLD
Whether you’re launching a new brand, leveling up your website, or just looking for a creative collaborator—I’m here to help bring your ideas to life.
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