Cool Poster on Breast Cancer

One striking poster that tickles the mind while informing it. Poster from the Breast Cancer Foundation.

Worth the visit: Stuff No One Told Me

The internet is a vast source of information materials. Be it design, color trends, nonsense information or even worthless materials, the internet is a good resource.

But one thing I would like to recommend is Stuff No One Told Me, a blog by Alex Noriega. Noriega is an illustrator from Barcelona and creates really nice drawings about life and, like what the title suggests, no one told you about.

Seems like his pages are addictive.

Reliving Memories: Designing for BNHS Batch T-Shirt Logo

The Bohol National High School Batch 1985 recently had their 25th Silver Reunion. What they wanted was a logo to be used in their t-shirts and other promo materials with a specific request that the old Bohol National High School school logo be used.

After several deliberations, we came up with an enhanced school logo and I added up a ribbon forming a half-circle to give emphasis on their silver jubilee celebrations. The 25 was superimposed along with their theme- Solid as ever, 25 years later.

The design was simple and struck a note of familiarity with the alumni.

The original BNHS school logo (above)

The logo design for BNHS Batch 1985 Silver Jubilee reunion

Male and Female Shirts with the reunion logo

Designing for DTI Info Boards

Someone told me that my designs are linear and clean, way out of my troubled thinking. Maybe because my designs are a wish for myself- clean, crisp and without too much clutter.

That is why when our DTI Director asked me to design an information board where they could share to the public the programs and activities the agency are doing, I made a study that is clean and readable.

I hope they will approve my design. All four of my designs were approved and I will post them soon.

Designing the Sandugo Trade Fair Poster

I have done three designs already for the yearly Sandugo Trade Fair initiated by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) starting from 2008.

Since DTI is a government entity, time element and budget are almost always the critical factors that sometimes hinders me in making the designs. More often, they will just give me a week or two to do my stuff with very limited resources including pictures, copy and anything financial. Sometimes, I have to design more, gratis.

This year, I have made six studies so far only to be rejected because they could not see my "artistic ability" on them. Meaning, my works lack character and vibes. Maybe because I was moving house and has not settled in yet and problems regarding piracy in the office has kept us all designers in a limbo.

After a brief "scold" from the DTI Director, they finally agreed on the seventh study I made overnight.

Just making all the samples made me sleep only two hours (the most) a day for three days..

Meanwhile, these were the materials I designed for Sandugo Regional OTOP Trade Fair (2009). I searched the designs I did in 2008 but to my dismay I could no longer find them.

Welcome to my design world

This would be my first entry and my first blog about the designing community I am in.

For so many years, I have copied designs, stolen some, re-designed others or made my own and have been praised and attacked by clients. Scarred. Battered. I became a triumphant survivor!

Working in the design world is a tough act. You have to fight off so many entities just to prove your point. And sometimes you retreat like a defeated warrior because clients insisted that I do what they thought was good for them, but deep inside I know it won't work, only to be blamed later when the final output is printed out.

I spent a lot of sleepless nights just to finish projects. I traveled. I got friends and enemies. I became a beggar because there were no clients around. I became a one day millionaire. I lost. I won.

That only means one thing- the design world is an exciting world.

I believe this time is the right time to share my designs with you.

Welcome!