I was talking to a friend one night as she was complaining about a new project. There goes the classic story of clients who doesn’t give a damn about design. This keeps me thinking—Where does design really stand?
I’ve changed my title for a few times throughout my design career. It has reached to a point where it’s become too complicated for me to describe what I really do and what I really want to achieve. To fix this, there’s only one solution — Change my title once and for all.
After Graphika Manila 2014, there’s a sudden uprise of calligraphy and lettering in the Philippines. It’s great to see so many people sharing the same passion and interest. However, we’re still not reaching the end of the big movement. Can we reach it? That’s the question.
When I was still a clueless 2nd year college student, we have this class called Design Concepts where design concepts were obviously being taught. One lesson I’ve learned from this class is the definition of Art and Design.
I was in Xiamen, China last June for a business meeting, as usual I brought with me my trustworthy Macbook Pro for working on some codes (primarily this site) and some occasional impromptu designs. What happened is I nearly gave up on coding my site.