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Para sa Kanila

I was part of the coverage team at the Pasay Rally for Vice President Leni Robredo's birthday. I literally started crying when I got to this photo while post-processing on Lightroom that I had to stop working and grab some tissues.

I have a bunch of photography to share from this campaign, hopefully I can update this portfolio soon to include those.

#photography #people #Leni Robredo #pasayispink #rally #philippines #halalan2022 #GobyernongTapat #AngatBuhayLahat #IpanaloNa10ParaSaLahat #kulayrosasangbukas #LeniKiko2022

The Coffee Kit (icons + colors)

In the few years I’ve known Keith both as a friend and as a coffee professional, he’s very simple and no-nonsense. I thought to apply the same to his brand, The Coffee Kit, including the icons I made for him.

Since the brand was all about bringing in new coffee brewing equipment you wouldn’t typically find in the market but was up to his standards as a professional no matter how simple they were, I figured to represent these in the simplest way for the icons. His logo while primarily type-based makes use of a triangle as a point of interest, and I wanted to use that shape for the icons too. The icons were a bit of a challenge for me to do since I normally try to incorporate enough details in my illustrations to make them identifiable, while keeping simplicity in execution. It helped that I wasn’t really illustrating anything specific for these icons, but enough detail had to be present that each icon would be identifiable as a specific piece of equipment while also incorporating the triangle.

This was a fun little challenge for me, and I kind of want to expand this roster of icons even just for myself.

The colors I chose also for Keith are shown here, though in small flecks. It was specifically designed this way, as the colors were meant to be accents and used as emphasis. I called them Electric Brew, (Coffee) Cherry Red, and Bright Yellow, all alluding to terms associated with coffee.

#branding #design #The Coffee Kit #coffee #Keith Shy #food

The Coffee Kit (logo)

One of my partners at Nine Three asked if I could help him out in terms of branding his own thing. He’s a coffee consultant, but he also brings in coffee equipment that aren’t popular and would be more affordable here in Manila.

I put together a little brand kit for him along with colors (with clever names that I enjoyed coming up with) and icons, but I’ll stick with just the logos here. I’ve always been the type (heh) to work with logotypes, so I picked out little bits of imagery to play with here to incorporate into the logotype. In this case, a triangle. I use it in all the little icons which I’ll probably share later on.

The main color I chose for Keith was actually a beautiful electric blue (I named it Electric Brew), but he opted against it since one of his main competition used a similar kind of blue and didn’t want to ruffle any feathers if ever and instead went with one of the other colors I gave him. Still, I love this version of the brand with this color. Looks so good against blue, white, or that dark gray.

#branding #design #The Coffee Kit #coffee #Keith Shy #food

Nine Three

This was bound to make it here, I just haven’t had the time to actually put the stuff together for decent quality worthy of this portfolio. Anyway, a few of the more major things I’ve worked on for Nine Three as the resident creative person of the team. I also did a lot of the illustrations used for materials, primarily following my usual style.

Coffee Equipment Illustrations

Speaking of illustrations, I actually illustrate when I’m bored or when I want a breather from work. Often, it takes a while to think of what exactly I want to illustrate, so easiest thing was to really just come up with a theme and draw out more simple things whenever. Sooo here we are.

9 out of...I don’t even know how many I’ve done at this point. It’s a lot. But they’re all coffee equipment, from grinders to kettles to brewers to espresso machines.

Originally, I was only illustrating Hario products, hence the bright pink background color. But at some point, I grew interested in illustrating more things outside of the brand, starting with the Fellow Stagg EKG (left-most in the middle row).

I’ll post more at some point.

#illustration #coffee #equipment #coffee equipment #hario #chemex #fellow #fellow stagg #stagg #syphon #mizudashi #takahiro #bona #kettle #baratza #grinder #encore #skerton #skerton pro #mini mill

The Ateneo Wild: Birds

A few months ago, one of my colleagues and I were tapped to work on a project for The Ateneo Wild. We were tasked to come up with some sort of guide that they could use for the bird walks that they conduct on campus. This entailed illustrating some of the birds that could be found in Ateneo! Did you know there are around 60 species of birds that can be spotted on campus? My colleague Ponci and I split the work. We illustrated over 25 species, and these are some of the ones I did.

Since I do more design and layout work, illustration work is always so refreshing.

#illustration #birds #The Ateneo Wild #ateneo #nature

Making Museums Work: A Zero-In Handbook

Not counting the annual report I did for a big company back in 2016, this is my second book project! It was finally concluded a year after I had started on it, so imagine my delight when I saw copies of the printed book in the office! As time-consuming and strenuous it is to layout a book with over 300 pages (the first one I did was around 120 pages) and working with several people on it, there’s nothing like holding the finished product in your hands. I don’t care what people say about print being dead, print is still magical for me.

This project involved a bit more than just laying stuff out. I was asked to re/create some infographics for a more cohesive look, and I was actually glad to do it. Working on Illustrator for this was a refreshing break from staring at spreads and baselines on InDesign.

I can’t say that I did this one cover to cover like my last project. The cover was designed by my friend and colleague, Ali Figueroa.

The book is available at the Ateneo Art Gallery in the Arts Wing of Areté.

#design #books #Zero-In #museums

Coffee, Matcha, Coffee

Japan essentials.

#photography #travel #travel photography #coffee #matcha #ice cream #food #drink #Starbucks #Boss #Suntory #black

Kyoto

Night time view from Kyoto Tower, November 2017.

#travel #photography #travel photography #Japan #Kyoto #cityscape #city lights #city #night #long exposure #Kyoto Tower

Kibune

A few favorites from my visit to Kibune on Mount Kurama in Kyoto, Japan this November 2017.

#travel #photography #travel photography #Japan #Kyoto #Kibune #autumn #fall

Tips on Putting Together a Portfolio

One of my more recent projects. Since I’m teaching Portfolio class this semester, I was asked by the placement office if I could help them out by giving them some tips on how to put together a portfolio for an event they have this month. Above are some bits of the visual that I made for them.

#design #portfolio