John “Spider” Connell
Art Director, Print Specialist,
Lead Graphic Designer, & Photographer
Spider, as he is called around here, is a Graphic Designer with over 27 years of designing experience in the Print Industry and 17 years as a Professional Photographer.
He has held the position of Art Director, Production Manager, Graphic Designer, Printer, Photographer, and many more positions in the print industry. He has designed for individuals, businesses, and sports entities such as the NFL Arena Football League, the Central Hockey League, Minor League Baseball, and hometown teams such as schools and private leagues.
On the business side, Spider has designed, printed, and installed just about everything you can think of in the print world from magazines, newspapers, sports programs, business cards, brochures, table covers, retractable and hanging banners, rack cards, real estate signs, contour cut-out signs, billboards, packaging, and much more.
This is why he is the “PRINT SPECIALIST” you want designing for you! If you want it done, and done right, come and meet Spider and the design team.
As the “Print Specialist”, Spider has the years of experience to understand, visualize, and produce the needs and wants for your design on just about any material.
Vic Villalobos
Head of Sales & Marketing
When Vic isn’t busy fulfilling his duties as Mayor of Dogcruces, you can find him coming up with new creative ways to help his clients. Whether it be print, digital, social or web... Vic takes a personal interest in every client we serve. A native of Las Cruces Vic has been with our companies for over 25 years... that’s 175 in dog years! “When the idea of Fetching Designs started to come to fruition, we knew it needed to be done around the things we love” this is why on any given day you can come around the office and visit with one of our “ office dogs “. We truly believe that if you find work that you truly love... you will always love your work!
Sonya Ruiz
Business and Finance Administrator
at Fetching Designs
Sonya has served as the Accountant, Business Office and HR Manager for Fetching Designs. She won’t “Nickel and Dime You” but will try to offer her best to provide customer service and sum up a solution to our client's needs.
Born and raised in Las Cruces, alumna of Mayfield High and NMSU, Sonya obtained a bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and a minor in Business Administration. She married her LCHS Bulldawg sweetheart, who been drumming to the beat of her heart for over 30 years; together they have 3 children, and 3 grand-pugs.
When she is not “counting”, she brings out the creative side and will design t-shirts, business forms, flyers and brochure ideas, but she leaves the final design elements to the creative team at Fetching Designs. Sonya also enjoys photography, scrapbooking, attending Aggie sporting events and traveling with her family!
Jenifer
Graphic Designer
Forced into graphic design by a desperate friend with a college publication emergency (CPE), Jen was captivated by the world of typesetting, halftone images, and border tape early in life. Somehow, she managed to successfully transition to the digital age, and graphic design has been sometimes-integral, sometimes-incidental to her eclectic professional journey for the past 40 years.
Jen has a BS in Marketing from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She has worked in such varied fields as retail management, hospitality management, financial information marketing, substitute teaching, food service and freelance graphic design/marketing.
For the past 26 years, she has been part of the American Classifieds/Dog’Cruces/Fetching Designs team, serving as Production Manager for the paper, Senior Editor and Columnist for the magazine, and Graphic Designer for Fetching Designs.
There is a fine line between “multi-faceted” and “unfocused”—but having walked on both sides of this line, Jen has acquired a panoramic perspective that is equally creative and practical.
DeAnna Aquirre
Executive Assistant
Hi! I’m DeAnna, the friendly face you’ll see at our front desk, but more importantly, I’m Waffles’ human.