Those look like LEDs to me. At first when I saw it I thought, “Someone ripped-off Tableportation!” But upon reading closer, I saw Jellio lite table use gigantic color pegs that light up. So the interaction is actually different. One you pick-up and insert the other you just touch. Tableportation [...]

Aside from the books I purchased in Singapore, I managed to get myself a couple of MUJI notebooks these were an easy purchase versus the expensive Moleskine ones. Most designers have some obsession about notebooks and sketchpads, I guess because that’s where we keep our valuable ideas. So it makes sense that it [...]

On our recent trip to Singapore. I managed to find Michael Bierut’s (of Pentagram) book “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design.” This was one of the books in my Amazon wish list and I’m sure glad I got it. I’m just on essay 6 but still thats an achievement for me. hehe. It is [...]

There is a competition to design a “Proudly Pinoy” logo intended for placement on Filipino websites.
Here is my design submission number 1, and you can see how I implamented it on my sidebar:

Details emerge at their site.

I didn’t get to attend last December since we were in the hospital. Hopefully I get to attend this year, one of the guests worth going to this event is Weworkforthem / Designgraphik.

We recently finished work on a logo for The Maple Tree Foundation for Mountain Communities. Yes, it is a mouthful. And so was the logo. At first, we thought that we would focus on the Maple tree but the client wanted to emphasize their very novel concept of helping Mountain Communities. [...]

Just to add to the noise generated by the ‘All Things Digital‘ (D5) conference.. I am fascinated by Microsoft’s new hardware product: Surface.  Surface is a multi-touch screen table that seems to have its own OS and built-in applications.

The product seems to be Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s multi-touch iPhone, albeit a big clunky delayed copy [...]

Today Novare Technologies puts version 2 of its website online.  This goes alongside the new brochure released a couple of weeks ago.  The design revolves around what I would call “swooshy swirly thingy”.

But there is some logic behind that, the idea actually came from the previous photo materials that Novare used.  These were light waves [...]

This week on Design Observer, Michael Bierut launches a book of 79 short essays. He discusses why he created a book and more importantly why he writes about design. This short essay is very inspiring for someone like me who also writes about design. One of the reasons why I started this [...]

Good friend and fellow ivrean Patray Lui has come out with a new site called Cane Picio. The site features illustrations by Patray on the adventures of the dog Picio. These illustrations are funny but classy.  I wonder where Patray finds time to do this considering she works for Philips Design in Eindoven. She also [...]