After presenting to about 50 people last week during Virlanie Foundation’s town hall meeting, I recently heard that my proposed logo redesign was accepted. The Virlanie Foundation Inc (VFI) is the largest private non-sectarian child caring institution in Metro Manila, Philippines. It operates 12 residential homes providing shelter, food, education and love to over [...]

While reading about new brand resign over at Brand New, I noticed one article that was written by a guest editor with a familiar name: Christian Palino. Christian is my batchmate and friend over at IDII.  I have not gotten in touch with Christian for a while now and didn’t know that he had redesigned his [...]

While looking for a magazine last weekend, something made me do a double-take: the latest BusinessWeek magazine.  I like BusinessWeek because they regularly have articles and even issues that are dedicated to design.  They also “host” the annual IDEA awards.

An extensive review about the redesign can be found in Brand New.  I just want to [...]

Here’s a nice post over at one of my favorite blogs, 37signal’s SVN.
They answer the question: “Do I need a designer..?” And I love how they answer it:
“… start thinking of them [web designers] as someone who decides what goes where, which form elements to use, how to split features between screens, what words [...]

…equals stronger message recognition.
Has this ever happened to you? While driving down a busy highway at about 20km/hr, listening to your favorite radio station, you hear radio ads here and there. But this one radio ad you notice in particular because by some coincidence you pass by a big billboard showing the same advertisement. [...]

Today NWARE, a division of Novare Technologies, launches its new website alongside its first product offering called SpiceHire. According to the site SpiceHire is:
SpiceHire is an easy to use Candidate Management and e-Recruitment module built on top of SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software.
The [...]

Last night a friend sent me an SMS saying that she just came from the launch party of the Globe rebranding. She had mentioned this a couple of weeks ago and wanted to know what I thought of it since I do love logo design and branding.
It seems like a group-wide initiative by [...]

Yes! That’s an iPhone in my hand and that’s my dog, Lupo, on the wallpaper and I want to share my experience playing with it for the first couple of days. This might be a long article so this is actually the first time I’ll have a “read more” link at the bottom of [...]

The International Design Excellence Awards are dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of design excellence to the quality of life and the economy. Winning the IDEA is a distinction like no other that brands your design as the very best in the business, among your peers, among your clients, among consumers [...]

I guess this has been there for sometime, but for those of us not in NYC, like me, this is the first time I see this interactive billboard meant to promote Adobe CS3. I wish they’d have something like this here in manila.. or rather, I wish someone would pay me good money to [...]