Custom Header for a motivation letter

Question

I am a little bit new working with LaTeX, I would like to know how to customize Headers in it, I add images that what I like to be able to do.

Thanks for yours answers.

Ivan · Accepted Answer

Just for fun, I propose this solution. This is a hybrid solution, which uses both absolute positioning and a minipage for the information on the right. I have used marvosym for the symbols but the awesomefont5 package, as recommended by @leandris, is certainly much more complete (I was not aware of it).
documentclass{article}
usepackage{marvosym}
usepackage{tikz}

newcommand{myblue}[1]{textcolor{blue}{#1}}
newcommand{mygray}[1]{textcolor{gray}{#1}}
newcommand{myrule}{color{blue}rule{textwidth}{2pt}}

begin{document}
begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
node[anchor=north west,inner sep=0pt,opacity=0.03] at (current page.north west)
  {includegraphics[width=paperwidth,height=8cm]{example-grid-100x100bp}};
draw[draw=blue,very thick] (0,1.4) -- (7cm,1.4);
node[anchor=west,text=blue,font=Large] at (0,1) {John Doe};
node[anchor=west,text=gray] at (0,0.4) {Digital Marketer};
draw[draw=blue,very thick] (0,0.1) -- (7cm,0.1);
node[anchor=west,text=gray,font=footnotesize] at (0,-0.2) {today};
node[anchor=north west,yshift=5mm] at (9,1) 
  {begin{minipage}[t]{.3textwidth}
    raggedleft
    
    John.Doe@gmail.com myblue{Email}
    202-555-0166 myblue{Mobilefone}
    ------------ myblue{*}
    ------------ myblue{*}
    ------------ myblue{*}
    ------------ myblue{*}
    ------------ myblue{*}
    end{minipage}};
end{tikzpicture}
end{document}

Ilya_Curie · Answer

Thanks to Ivan, as I said before, your idea was a great base to work with.
Here I am just putting the code and its changes.
documentclass{article}
usepackage{fontawesome5} %https://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/CTAN/fonts/fontawesome5/doc/fontawesome5.pdf
usepackage{tikz}

usepackage{xcolor}

definecolor{egyptianblue}{rgb}{0.06, 0.2, 0.65}

newcommand{myblue}[1]{textcolor{egyptianblue}{#1}}
newcommand{mygray}[1]{textcolor{gray}{#1}}
newcommand{myrule}{color{egyptianblue}rule{textwidth}{2pt}}

addtolength{oddsidemargin}{-.875in}
addtolength{evensidemargin}{-.875in}
addtolength{textwidth}{1.75in}
addtolength{topmargin}{-.875in}
addtolength{textheight}{1.75in}

setlength{parindent}{0em}
usepackage[parfill]{parskip}

begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture]
node[anchor=north west, inner sep=0pt, opacity=0.2] at (current page.north west){includegraphics[width=paperwidth]{Conection.png}};

draw[draw=egyptianblue,very thick] (-3.5,0.4) -- (9cm,0.4);

node[anchor=west,text=egyptianblue,font=LARGE] at (-1.5,0) {John Doe};
node[anchor=west,text=gray,font=Large] at (-1.5,-0.7) {Digital Marker};

draw[draw=egyptianblue,very thick] (-3.5,-1.2) -- (9cm,-1.2);

node[anchor=west,text=gray,font=footnotesize] at (-1.5,-1.5) {date};

node[anchor=north west,yshift=5mm] at (12,0.1)

{begin{minipage}[t]{.3textwidth}
raggedleft

John.Doe@gmail.com myblue{faEnvelope}
202-555-0166 myblue{faMobile*}
------------ myblue{faMapMarker*}
------------ myblue{*}
------------ myblue{*}
------------ myblue{*}
------------ myblue{*}
end{minipage}};

end{minipage}};
end{tikzpicture}

vspace{2.5cm}

section*{Intro}

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