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iPhone Nano Rumors

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

There are rumors in the mac news blogs now of a new iPhone: a Nano version. I’m really curious to see the price point that they will make this at if it is true. There are mockups of 3.5 inch screens here. I thought of mocking up another version using 2.5 inch screens [...]

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So it goes…

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Last August, I participated in a contest and submitted a design to a local government agency called the MMDA.  The task was to design a landmark that would be built in front of the newly opened airport, Terminal 3.  
My concept was simple but I thought was solid: There were 2 landmark spots and I [...]

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Radio Ads plus Billboard Ads

Friday, September 21st, 2007

…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. [...]

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Clearing my Desktop

Friday, August 31st, 2007

or rather creating a new desktop.

I’m one who usually keeps my desktop clean. Only the necessary files stay on the desktop. But there are times that I am too busy to really mind what’s there. I leave screenshots and downloads there.. leaving it too cluttered sometimes. Aside from the desktop, my [...]

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TIME magazine redesign

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

TIME magazine released its first redesigned issue this month. I think they have been slowly transitioning into it for a while now, starting with the “TIME” font. Now even the structure has been redesigned. According to Pentagram: “The magazine has been organized into four clearly defined sections—Briefing, The Well, Life and Arts—to help [...]

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Holy Smokes!

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Been wanting to post this excellent photography site which showcases “colored smoke” photography.  I can imagine how hard it is to capture these images.  There are some post-production involved but what the heck, the images are magnificent!

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Open Source Idea Generation

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

As I was thinking about creating my “design journal”, I came across a big challenge: I will be exposing my ideas to the whole internet. It was more of a fear that even before I could create something tangible out of my own ideas, someone might run away and made something out of it [...]

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Tunnel Vision

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

While driving through the numerous underpass and tunnels during the traffic holidays, I’ve noticed a nice visual:

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Heat Signals

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Searched the web for the term heat signals… but found out what I actually wanted to look for was “Thermography.” Here are some nice visual pegs kept here for future reference. Note to self: the key is in the interaction.

This one reminded me of Levin and Reas’ old work Dakadaka

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