The Manila Design Week site is now live, weaved by the talented duo Inksurge. August will be a wonderful month for design.
Manila Design Week Site
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Design By Human interviews Collision Theory
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An interesting article about Aj’s DBH win and the start of their booming baby clothing business Googoo&Gaga. Read the article here.
Dead Ends & False Starts
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SLab proudly presents Dead Ends and False Starts by Mariano Ching, a series of of acrylic paintings on an array of materials–paper, canvas and metal signage. In this show, he depicts a dreamer and his desire for utopia in a post-apocalyptic world and presents a silver lining despite decay and obsolescence. JULY 15, 2009, WED, 6-9PM
Manila Design Week/Public Art: Call for entries
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Team Manila Graphic Design Studio, in cooperation with Bratpack, Ayala Malls, Summit Media and Adobo Magazine would like to invite creative talents to the Manila Design Week’s (August 8-15 2009) Public Art Project. This year’s concept and mission statement for the MDW 2009 is Graphic Design moves.
Interested creatives should send an email to Clara Balaguer (clara@teammanila.com) or Des Rimando (des@teamanila.com) to get a full creative brief on the project.
Kristofferson “Paok” Paunil
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A freelance graphic designer from Cebu. Winning digital competitions such as BITE’s Graffiti Expressions, iClick Art Contest by iCenter and ArtEDGE Toyota.
Visit his portfolio site here.
MTV + Philippines Department of Tourism
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MTV Asia and The Department of Tourism teamed up to create this vibrant TV ad about how awesome the Philippines is. Art Direction, Compotsiting, and Motion Graphics by our dear own Carl Chua. See the video here.
STATUS is Abstract
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Status Magazine Issue No. 07 is dedicated to all the artists. Available now at National Bookstore, Fully Booked, Powerbooks, & specialty stores. www.statusmagonline.com
Honoris Causa Degree for Bencab
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UP will confer an honorary degree on Mr. Benedicto ” Bencab” Cabrera, national artist and alumnus of the UP College of Fine Arts on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 10 am at the Abelardo Hall, College of Music. We invite friends and alumni to join us in honoring Bencab on this special occasion. The last honoris causa conferment on alumni from the UP College of Fine Arts was in 1993 when National Artists Fernando Amorsolo and Guillermo Tolentino, former deans of UP CFA, were both given the honors.