Kahon

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Here’s our first short film, done way back when I was in college. Forgive the crudeness. I still have a hard time watching it again, but hey, it was our first.

Bag Love

Abi and I made some bag paintings!

Swarming

I recently made an illustration for University of Asia and the Pacific’s ICOMM magazine. The article was about marketing products using the power of social networking.

Osomundo and the Paper City

This little project is like a grade school activity on steroids. And it seems fitting in a way since it has a sort of back-to-school theme in mind.

Osomundo (now composed of Ivan, Erica, Abi and myself) have been hard at work on a whole bunch of paper sculptures for our friend Clytie’s brand, JanSport. So for the past few weeks, almost every night and on weekends, we’ve been cutting folding and pasting all sorts of structures from books to lightning bolts. It feels like Lantern Parade all over again (times 9, since we have to do that many of these things) but it’s been fun despite the late, late nights and the glue gun burns (ouch). It’s even more fulfilling when we actually install it and everything works according to plan.

Dragon Boat

The Asian Institute of Management’s Alumni Magazine had me illustrate an article on Asia (mostly China) and the Global Financial Crisis. Despite my previous Management and Finance background, I had to read the article a couple of times just to get what it was actually saying. Teasing an image was pretty difficult, but I eventually managed to come up with this.

Black and white study

Colored final - acrylic and photoshop

Yellow Pages

The REAL ad came out today. This is the unapproved ad I made. I enjoyed doing it and since it will never see print, I thought I’d post it anyway.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

Nice motion graphics short film made by Jonathan Jarvis, a graduate student from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

From crisisofcredit.com:

The Short & Simple Story of the Credit Crisis

“The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.”

more about “The Crisis of Credit Visualized“, posted with vodpod

Found through cpluv.com

I couldn’t help it.

Maganda ang disenyo ng mga kahon.

Matagal na akong tagahanga ni Optimus Prime. Kung dumating siya dito at mag-concert sa Araneta Coliseum, pupunta ako. Magdadala pa ako ng malaking placard na susulatan at dodrowingan ng mga energon cubes at puso.

Noong grade school ako noong 1985, nanalo ako ng academic award at dapat bibilhan ako ng laruan bilang premyo sa aking pagkapanalo. Nagiging uso pa lang noon ang Transformers na una kong napanood sa betamax na hinaram sa CS Video sa may Del Monte Avenue. Siyempre si Optimus Prime ang gusto kong bilhin. Kaso sa kasawiang palad, out-of-stock na ang mga Optimus Prime at pumili na lang ako ng Autobot na nalalapit sa itsura ni Optimus Prime. Umuwi ako noon dala-dala ang firetruck robot na si Inferno.

Wala nang nakakatanda kay Inferno ngayon at doon ko unang natutunan ang isa sa mga pinakamahalagang leksyon sa buhay: never settle.

Mukhang plastic na plastic si Prime

Flash forward 20 plus years later at wala pa rin akong Optimus Prime. Naglabas ng 20th anniversary Masterpiece Edition ng naturang robot at inasam-asam kong makuha ito balang araw. Ginawa ko pa nga itong topic ng TFA 180 (Design Theory) presentation ko sa eskuwela.

Sa wakas noong nagkatrabaho na ako, pikit mata akong bumili ng Masterpiece Edition ni Prime sa halagang PhP 5,000. Masaya ako at di naman nagsisisi.

Bagamat nakuha ko na rin si Prime, minsan gusto ko pa ring magkaroon ng ibang Prime. Nagkataong sale ng mga special edition Transformers sa mga toy stores. Half the price kaya pinatos ko na rin. Maganda ang kahon kahit na mukhang cheap at plasticky ang build ng mga laruan. Pwede na rin. Sale naman eh.

"The Dinosaurs" ay ginuhit ni Brian Selznick, ang author ng 2008 Caldecott winner ng "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" for Php 80. "Hurricane" by David Weisner for PhP 40 at journals nang yumaong si Dan Eldon for PhP 480.

Ang talagang panalong nabili ko noon araw na nag-shopping spree ako ay ang mga librong ito. Second hand na sila, medyo bugbog na pero ayos naman ang presyo.

Related Links:

Brian Selznick

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

David Weisner

The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon

Dan Eldon

Milton Glaser on using design to make ideas new

Design icon Milton Glaser talks about design and ideas on Ted Talks. He is responsible for these very recognizable graphics:

more about “Milton Glaser on using design to make…“, posted with vodpod

Related links:

http://www.miltonglaser.com/

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/exhibit-art-is-work

People Watching

I like drawing people when they’re not looking. I get self-conscious when people see I’m drawing, which is why I find it difficult drawing in very public places. Robert Alejandro did it during his travels around South East Asia and made a book of out of his sketches. He doesn’t seem to have a problem with people staring while he works. I wish I could be the same.

Anyway, here are  a bunch of sketches of people over the past couple of days.

Abi the sleepy head

Here’s my office mate Louie Aquino. I drew this during one of our pitch clearance meetings recently. Incidentally, we won that particular pitch.

Dinner at Grill Queen UP Village with my sister. That’s her shoulder in the foreground.