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There has been a slack time on my blog. Perhaps this is due to my immersion into academic pressure. But then again, as other bachelor bloggers would say, I must pat this blog with a warm towel.

I’ll start off my blog’s new year by sharing my latest graphic design. It’s an advertisement for the event Sining 2010, prearranged by the University of the Philippines Aguman (UP Aguman), one of my organizations in college.

Through the looking glass, I’ll tell more about this creation as a graphic artist and advertisement conceptualizer.

Artist’s Interpretation

Notice the Sining 2010 logo [...]

Just recently, I was assigned to be the layout artist of the documentation we have to make for our Communications Systems report. Kat Guevara, who had been consistently productive during the planning, explained what I must produce. We were on the same page, as what she said. We both want a classy handbook style of documentation.

I showed her some of my works to give her a gist of what I could make. One of these was the Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) Magazine Project, which was a partial fulfillment of our requirements in EEE 31 (Introduction to EEE) 2 years ago. [...]

SICAN: Gearing Towards Capampangan Excellence and Ingenuity is the theme of The Pautakan 2009. A perfect symbol of Capampangan excellence is the UP Aguman logo. As one of the most honored Pampango organizations in the north, UP Aguman is embodied with excellence in service to its people as depicted by the red swirls. The blocks represent the building blocks of ingenuity moving towards the background, a crystal blast.

It’s my third time to design the poster of the most prestigious quiz bee in Pampanga. [...]

MnemoArt is a look-back at my artworks prior to Project ISKO. Most of these are graphic designs, childhood drawings, caricatures, high school projects, and even objects with sentimental value.

Ever since, the Oblation Revolving Trophy symbolizes intelligence. On the foreground, the Oblation and the young student become one, and the union exemplifies the outstanding cognitive excellence, which is depicted by the gold swirls. The background, on the other hand, depicts the different fields each contestant of the same team may excel in. Through “teamplay,” students of different fields unite, leading to eventual individual excellence that is depicted by the foreground.

Quick tutorial: [...]