Rafael Esquer is a creative director, international speaker, and entrepreneur. A native of the Sonora desert of Mexico, Rafael has made Manhattan his home for over two decades. As Creative Director at RadicalMedia, his group's work in communication design received the National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian National Design Museum. His work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Art and Design in New York and is included the Library of Congress Poster Collection, The David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University, and the Olympic Museum in Switzerland among others.

Since 2004, Esquer has operated Alfalfa Studio, his own design firm in SoHo. In 2007, Taschen named him among the world's 100 most influential graphic designers working today. He frequently serves as speaker and judge at international design events.

Rafael received his BFA in graphic design from Art Center College of Design.