Messy Studio

by Erika Granada

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Title: Panahon ng Pagbabago

Year: 2013

Genre: Advocacy song

A song for the environment.

Work done: songwriting and composition, video production, video editing (including subtitle encoding), and camera direction.

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Title: Summer

Medium: Digital collage & illustration

Created using Adobe Photoshop, photos from Unsplash

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Hold On, Bumble, I’m Having An Existential Crisis

My well of existential crises is deep enough to last me through my 20s. The last thing I need is an eligible bachelor to push me down into it.

A personal essay that reveals the sense of alienation a WOC feels from using dating apps. Touching on issues of privilege and identity, the essay draws both from personal and shared experiences with fellow Filipinas (friends, observations, colleagues).

Genre: Humor, personal essay

Published on Thought Catalog

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Title: Messy

Medium: Logo

The array of original branding work for Messy, including blog and portfolio.

All elements in the first sample are original and self-drawn. Only art direction is mine in the second sample; I do not own the font.

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Title: Angkor Wat

Year: 2019

Medium: Photography, digital collage and illustration

Created using Adobe Photoshop

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Title: Postcard from Kuala Lumpur - KL Tower

Year: 2018

Medium: Digital collage

Created using Adobe Photoshop

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Title: Descend

Equipment: Canon EOS 60D

Post-processing: Adobe Lightroom

A photo of fish taken at SEA Aquarium, Singapore. As I looked on, I saw a haze of light emanating from above the large aquarium and these fish, coming from the upper right, seemed to descend from heaven.

Published on Your Shot National Geographic

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[Commissioned work]

Medium: Original logo

Client pitch: A family tree with eight leaves to signify core family members.

Created using Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop

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Title: Morlock Girls (A Mean Girls parody)

Year: 2017

Genre: Movie trailer

An undergraduate project to create a story using concepts found in three classic books, The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, and A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

Work done: story writing, co-wrote the script, storyboard conceptualization, camera direction and actor direction, editing (including subtitle encoding and translation), and styling.

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Title: Supermoon

Year: 2017

Equipment: Canon EOS 60D

Post-processing: Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop

I love the city, but I will always choose to come home to freer skies for this beauty. Can't really beat this view. (A capture test on capturing stars on camera)

Published on Instagram

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Medium: Digital illustration

Year: 2015/2016

Cover art for a playlist entitled “Meraki” (deleted as of 2019).

Created using Adobe Photoshop

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Title: #2E8857 Hex series

Medium: Digital illustration

Year: 2015/2016

Cover art for hex code-inspired playlists (deleted as of 2019).

Created using Adobe Illustrator

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Title: Ingredients for a Crisis

Year: 2018

Medium: Digital illustration

Created using Adobe Illustrator

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Title: This is How We Feel

Medium: Digital collage

A moodboard of feelings gathered from the stories of friends and colleagues.

Created using Adobe Photoshop

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Medium: Digital illustration

Created using Adobe Illustrator

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Location: Innovation Tower, Hong Kong

Genre: Architectural photography

Equipment: Canon EOS 60D

Post-processing: Adobe Lightroom

Designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid, the Innovation Tower has a fluid and sterile design. In this photo, though, I wanted to capture the grit of the city and portray the tower as an urban monolith.

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Medium: Digital illustration

An original illustration, inspired by the Little Prince drawing of a hat/an elephant inside a snake, meant to accompany an essay on book hoarding.

Created using Adobe Illustrator