I apologize for being in a bad mood today but a certain "Totally Creative Graphic Design Studio" totally ripped off one of my original artworks and is selling it on notepads, journals and other stationery in their store "Invitation House". Tsk. My original design, a low-res image of which has been ...

Finally -- a cleaner, fresher, more "grown-up" look ((Well I am 36 y.o. after all)). And best of all, look at all that space! I got so used to my last layout's narrow posting area that I can't get over how roomy this is. :) But what exactly happened, you ...

Just in case you heard rumors about it through the extremely tiny Metro Manila grapevine, please allow us to finally confirm that yes, it's true: Unitel Productions acquired the film rights to Arn's 2006 graphic novel "Ang Mundo ni Andong Agimat". We couldn't announce it formally ((Although of course family ...

I have a confession to make: ever since Twitter invaded my life, I've been too lazy to update the normal way. But rather than let this webspace go to waste ((And yes, it's been paid for til the end of the year.)), here's one big fat update coming up. So ...

Non-trad ad for The Yoga Center. . In Non-traditional Advertising, ads are strategically positioned in the most unexpected places e.g. the sidewalk, a manhole cover, and as in the brilliant ((It's so simple, it makes you go "why didn't I think of that?")) example above, a straw. The trick is in fusing ...

One of the questions I often get asked is "who are the graphic designers you admire?" It's quite a list actually so I hope you have time because I'm gonna take you through it right now. *** David Carson. He was the Nirvana and Pearl Jam of the visual movement in the ...

Yahoo, the Wedding Essentials team's newest baby, Beautiful Weddings 2006, will be available at all leading bookstores and mag stands starting this week. So, just what is Beautiful Weddings? It's a collection of wonderfully inspiring stories celebrating beautiful beginnings by real brides and will be sold for only Php 120.00 - ...

A couple of years ago, I made a mom-and-baby cat illustration for a book that never happened for some reason or other. I found it again while spring-cleaning my hard drive and thought, why not put it to good use? So if you love cats, red tabbies in particular, and [a] ...

Finally I can show you some stuff my Arn has been working on these past few weeks. These four albums from SonyBMG are just the first batch of a series of 2-in-1 cds that feature the music of 90s bands like Yano, Sugar Hiccup, Sandwich and Color it Red. Don't mistake ...

Guess what, this blog is turning 5 years old by the end of the month! To mark this milestone (well it is for me, anyway), I've decided to turn the substance factor up a notch and post more graphic design-related entries*. And by that I don't mean sitting idly and ...