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Many, many weeks ago, I dragged Rap over to 10a Alabama to check out Type Kita, a typography exhibit for the benefit of Heart School. I had first heard about this event through the Type Kita Facebook page, and while I am not a letterer or a typograph-er, I knew I just had to go. Typography is something of a newfound love for me. I love words, I love art, and typography is the combination of both!        Rap and I commuted there from Ortigas by taking a bus and then a trike. The bus was a mistake. We should have taken one bound for Cainta, but instead we ended up near UERM and the V. Mapa LRT station. So from there we took a trike to 10a Alabama, and that cost a hundred bucks. If you find out a better way to commute there, please let me know for future visits :) Pillows by Pop Junk Love (links at the bottom of this post!) Spotted on the free-for-all chalkboard. 10a Alabama.  Those paper cups are too cute to just throw away. "Para kang ...

This is the second of three greeting cards that I made for my design class. The challenge was to pretend like I was hired by Ateneo to design some cards. I really don't want to explain this card any further. I finished this one a few hours before it was due, so I didn't think through the concept well enough.  Now I'm contemplating going to the Manila International Book Fair. I'm hesitant because I'll probably find deals that are just as good at Booksale anyway. Maybe I'll go over to Booksale then. Anyway, have a good weekend!

" Looks like someone went too magis on birthday cake." This was one of three greeting cards that I made for design class. The catch was that I had to pretend like Ateneo hired me to design greeting cards for them. Yeah, I know the caption sucks.  This is probably the first time I've ever actually illustrated something from scratch. Most of my previous work I based off pictures from the Internet. So this is a design milestone! Yay! In other news, I've been meaning to read The Great Gatsby for a long time now. But I couldn't get my hands on a copy. The library's sole copy was missing, and it's too expensive to buy from bookstores (it sells for like P600. There was a version that was less than P300, but that was the freaking movie cover book. I avoid movie cover books). Anyway, fortunately for me I found a copy that was only P90 at the Zeitgeist book sale in Ateneo! God bless you, book sales. 

It's been a busy design week for me, meaning my butt's really sore from sitting down the whole day. But I shall reserve a separate post for this week's design theme (greeting cards) and I shall instead backtrack to some old plates. Last week in design class, we took up negative space. The best way to explain what negative space is is through examples, courtesy of the negative space artist, Noma Bar (click to enlarge): Spock Charlie Chaplin I don't know what this ad has to do with IBM, but it's an IBM ad. This week's design challenge was to create negative space illustrations of a celebrity, a political issue, and a pun. Fortunately for me, I was among the three winners of last week's album art challenge, so I had to do only two! I feel silly now for showing you my work after having shown you those examples from Noma Bar. But anyway, here it is: Guess who. Everyone wants a piece of that pork.

My dog-themed business card did pretty well in last week's design class contest. It did so well that it got me an exemption for 1 out of 3 submissions this week! Yay! This week we we had to do 3 poster designs for either Ibong Adarna, El Filibusterismo, or Noli Mi Tangere. The catch is that one poster needs to make use of photomanipulation, one makes use of only graphics (i.e. no photographs), and the last one has to be based off an actual historical poster. I picked Ibong Adarna because I figured it was the easiest to represent, and I chose not to do the graphics-only poster, since I suck at illustrations. Initially Sir Marcelo made us submit the 3 posters on the day that he announced the assignment, but fortunately he was nice enough to push the deadline back by 4 days. Thank God. I was so busy studying for my Saturday Physio exam that I would've totally ignored the design project (because I am determined to give  my 110% to Physio).  Buuuuut because Saturday w...

This week in my Basic Design class, we had to make three calling cards: one for ourselves, one for a friend, and one for an existing business. The only guideline: your card has to represent the personality of the person it's intended for. We were taught the basics of color theory and, for the first time, were allowed to use color in our plates. Really exciting! Even better was that we were allowed to use Photoshop instead of just Illustrator! Squee! I felt like a bird being freed from its cage. Anyway, here's what I came up with: This is my personal calling card. The front flap has a cuddly little dog on it. When you lift it, you get a view of its mouth (which isn't as cuddly), with my name spelled out in dog treats.  I went with this design because, obviously, I like dogs. My original idea was that the dog's tongue was something you  could pull out to reveal my contact details. The flap idea that I went with was Rap's, although he had warned me in a...

As evidenced by the grades I'm getting in my basic design class, I still haven't gotten the hang of basic design. *sigh* Anyway,  yesterday Mr. Marcelo taught us how to play around with text to make them look like images. Here's what I produced: Still not awesome at Illustrator, but these things take a while, I guess.