She's not a girl who misses much.

true believer, idolizer

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happy 1st wedding anniversary to us!

(photos by judd figuerres)

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Lettuce rejoice.

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#tbt the time @eanaguila and i were singing on a giant fretboard 👌

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"Oh, sorry-- were you gonna use it?"

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😻

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My second weekend in 2016 was spent tagging along on a shoot and speaking to @thisiskcconcepcion about the cause close to her heart. Definitely walked away with a girl crush on this beautiful (through and through) person. Can't wait to see the story this week!

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#tbt

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Mom, is that you? cc and drawing by: @manixabrera

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Vague familiarity

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#tbt BTS: we want you, ikaw

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DAY 4 😷😛

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Clown chic 😷

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(via https://soundcloud.com/bombapress/hey-its-your-birthday-dead-cat?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=tumblr)

fuck these guys, they’re so good. i love you, anne and karl and bandmates, oo this is love na hahahaha. CEBU bands are so awesome.

huhuhu ang sarap mag kadiri-feelings-fangirl pag music.

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Hello, Audio Baby Too

Now that the album was out, I have to do the launch poster. I made the Ang Bandang Shirley launch poster for Halloween and I’m doing the Slow Hello poster for a November release. Maybe it has something to do with them creepies.

So I gave the band studies for the poster. Take note, the keyword here is CONSISTENCY. My protagonist takes a peek-a-boo on the first one. The second one was a merging of both, which I envisioned to be like the poster for “Ang Nawawala” (HA! I thought of it first!). And as the third study says, it is a cage-like head of the girl. The idea captivated the band, so I did a better study.

Vectored the thing to have that Small Stakes (Silkscreen Poster makers) vibe. And am happy with the results.

And I guess, it fancied others too.

After it was done, I still made a toned down plan B. Just in case. Like I said, consistency. Don’t forget your plan B’s.

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PLAN B WAS ALSO AWESOME. in fact, some friends wanted to buy that version of the poster, too, but by that time i had spent all my money printing the other merch. i think i should have a copy of this framed, too.

ekong, pahingi ulit ng hi-res haha joke lang :)

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Ok, I don’t know the people here, personally, but seeing them post about it made me feel giddy. 

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aawww, i remember these posts. si monik (ata) yung isa, si rio yung pangalawa. <3

happy anniversary! fuck pinaghirapan naming lahat ito. haha.

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Hello, Audio Baby

It’s the anniversary of Slow Hello’s album launch, so might as well show you some behind the scenes.

After we were done with the funding campaign shirt, I was given a first peek at the album. With what I’ve heard (around 4 roughs), I already have some ideas floating around, and with the leniency of the schedule, I already made clean sketches of the studies. Each one has a story.

I really like study 1. It says Europop wanting to disguise as Asian sound. Study 3 is flat out Audio Baby. I wanted to go really retro with this one. Note the Foo Fighteresque space gun. Upon deliberation with the band, they chose study 3, which takes off from where the shirt study came from.

I already made color studies for this, apart from the two you see above. But the band preferred the monotone style for their look. I tried to put more color on the layout.

Green is not their shade. Changed it to a more earthy tone.

Laying out the lyric sheet was the easiest task since my day job deals with creating brochures and newsletters.

Capping up the design was making the tray art work. Yes, it’s two words. One of the things I’m trying to imply for this album was the perception of illusion. That there is something from nothing and not the other way around.

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<3

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Pretty brave of him to sit next to Exploding Kittens.