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This is my repository of random graphic and illustration art.
Currently I'm working in an Internet marketing team's design department, and everything I produce outside my professional work goes in this blog.
I’ve recently inherited a case of insomnia. On the downside, I’m tired as hell, but on the other hand I get an excuse to do more things like these.
Sleep issues aside: check out Jared (J3concepts)’s blog @ Electrichoneyhornetmitten. Aside from his brilliant illustrations, his blog hosts a collection of electronic music up for listening/downloading. I personally endorse his picks, this fella’s got taste.
Salut to everyone I ran into at the Lomo Manila event (Oct 26 @ Team Manila offices, Makati). Aaron (AR/DP) has some pics posted on his multiply site. (though unfortunately none of me!)
(Image unrelated)
Above, a little impromptu collaboration with the lads of GSM. Credits for the illustration go to Greg (Enceladus) and Jared (J3concepts/EHHM).
Below, use your cloaking device. HAHAHAHA! I didn’t think so.
(The image above is by me—the rest of the images below are lifted from here and there. Oh and try doing a right click → Save target as, it’s a widescreen wallpaper.)
Hay, guise. Long time no post. Anyway, enough about me for awhile: here’s a potpourri of things that I found and like recently.
Absolut (not-so-)recently had a campaign where they took 11 random designers from the “urban youth” of Tokyo and had each of them do an Absolut ad. I couldn’t care less about Absolut’s involvement in it. But the project just overflows with foreign style and personality — I think that makes it look-worthy, forget about Absolut’s reputation for genius marketing!
Here’s what I think is the star of the series. Such a shame that the integration of the compulsory Absolut bottle seemed like a slapped-on afterthought (as with rest of the series), instead of being the centerpiece (as with Absolut’s tradition). I like the whole doll doppelgänger thing, though, I guess that makes up for it a little.
Image at fashion.at/foto, Absolut campaign site at absolut.com/metropolis.
She’s half of the now-defunct duo Alisha’s Attic, the voice behind Michael Gray’s “Borderline,” and now a solo artist with a great style.
Check out the video for her song “Totally Underwater” on YouTube. Seriously, with a logotype as gorgeous as that, how can you resist giving her a listen?
Renaissance just released a new double-disc mix (okay, 2 months old now) — and this time from Satoshi Tomiie! Now, Tomiie has always been on my “to watch for” list since his progressive house days, and even now that he’s gotten into the whole electro-house trend he still ain’t half bad.
His new mix Renaissance The Masters Series Part 9 sways from electro-inspired progressive house (most of disc 1) to influences of minimal techno (on disc 2), keeping mostly a warmup-style atmosphere throughout — no smashing floor-fillers here. Disc 2 is my favorite: it kicks off with some trippy minimal beats which just get better and better as the mix goes.
Read more about it on ResidentAdvisor, or check out one of it’s standout tracks:
Planet Funk: “It’s Your Time” (Different Gear Mix) [mp3]
This would be, uh, Schrodinger’s Restaurant: neither open nor closed. (Or, the restaurant is <blink>not</blink> open.)
Of course I’m just playing smartass here: it probably means that they accept Equitable cards, but they’re closed for the night, but it’s amusing to laugh at the confusion it creates.
I’ve been looking around possible gifts to give people when I came across this simple tumbler at National Bookstore. (I’m due to give a bunch of people gifts!) The first shot shows how it works: the lid goes on the black cup, which goes inside the clear case where you can slip your own decal in. So I threw together a quick, low-res, inkjet-printed pastiche to try it out 
The design isn’t exactly a well-directed effort. But the design aside, the tumbler still looks like shit! It feels like the cheap, flimsy, mass-manufactured piece of plastic that it is. Boo-fucking-hoo!
Hahaha! It’s really amazing what a brighter emotional disposition can bring to your work. Being glum really gives you the tendency to make junk (like what I’ve been producing lately). So since I’m as happy as a peach today, I’m just taking advantage of it to make something that I hope would turn out well. Hey I think so far it kind of did… still a little messy on the lower part but that can be fixed.
Just a little work-in-progress preview of something I’m working on now. Can’t really say much, but there’ll be one of these for each month, and no it’s not a calendar. I maybe posting previews of the other pages, or maybe not… but hey, whatever.
Here are some possibly familiar pencil+paper quickies. They’re old scans; I don’t really have a scanner, so transferring from sketchpad to jpeg isn’t exactly very convenient for me.
That’s all for now. Some really interesting things are in the works (I swear), but they’ll will have to wait. Lots going on right now. Those who know me would know what those things are. Wish me luck, fellas 
—R
Just a quick throw-up to get myself back on track. Slowly moving on over to slightly newer things. Like it?
New work for Hellacious, shithot off the grill.
Hellacious is a new bar around the Malabon area, which is home to some indie bands playing rock, reggae, and other sorts of left-of-center music. Have a look.
Here’s a work-in-progress of a new poster for them for a planned redecoration of the place. I already did a small flyer for them once before, hence the post title. Massive A2. Pictured to the right is the low-res study which I made to prepare (like a sketch), and above is the hires A2 proper. As someone noted it’s like comparing rawr to meow. Wtfm.
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