Logo & Teaser Design Gaz Kole

Gaz Kole teaser design.

It’s a fact of life that you feel like your car is being caressed by a jackhammer when you drive on the streets of Port au Prince, but that doesn’t stop some people in owning supercharged vehicles here. Recently Jn-Michel Carvonis, a super car owner in Haiti started blogging about how it is to own these wonderful set of roaring wheels in Haiti. And we were more than happy to be obliged in creating a logo and a teaser design for him. We can’t stop shouting “Gaz Kole vvvrrrrrooom!” and feel the pedal to floor while creating the designs. Even after submitting the artworks, we still couldn’t stop hearing growling engines and screeching breaks in our heads.

Gaz Kole logo design.

So if you’re a car enthusiast check out www.gazkole.blogspot.com. Even if you hardly go from 0-60 in 5 seconds, this blog is still worth the look. Maybe after reading the blog you’ll learn how to say, “let’s roll” with a Fast & The Furious Vin Diesel voice to your girl.

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Barbancourt: un portrait

Rhum Barbancourt, Portrait Famille 2011 Billboard. And yes, we were contemplating about how the white rhum lands against the black BG too.

The simplest design is always the best design. Rhum Barbancourt first fell on my hands in my first few days in Haiti. How me and the team wished it was a nice glass of rhum sour instead of a piece of paper telling you to make print ads and billboards.
We turned into coffee-powered zombies for days trying to cough up some fancy-schwancy designs for one of the biggest brands in Haiti, but to no avail. Then one day, just before the caffeine high permanently turns into clinical depression, it came… the beginnings of Portrait Famille. First as an accidental layout that later became a design that Barbancourt approved with much hoorah. In fact, they loved it so much that this year’s new Barbancourt design was just a modification of the original Portrait Famille. Hmmm, if memory serves well, last year's design was also the 1st Portrait Famille. Dang! They love that design.

The first version of Rhum Barbancourt's Portrait Famille billboard. Look at the upper right-hand corner of the 2011 Billboard, there are still remnants of the first design (with reduced opacity).

Looking back though, if you put the fancy-schwancy design attempts side by side with Portrait Famille, it would look like you're putting wicked stepmothers + big bad wolf vs Disney princess. So moral lesson, keep it simple. Always works, promise.

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TV Commercial: Oishi Prutalastas

Prutalastas. Two words in Filipino, Prutas (fruit) Patalastas (TV commercial). So in English, that’s Fruit TV commercial. Hmm, sounds better in Filipino. It’s an invented word courtesy of our Creative Director back in Creative Juice\ Manila. The TVC's storyboard was one of the last TVCs I illustrated/conceptualized before I left the The Motherland. Actually, there were several boards for this ad. This one got chosen, and my colleagues went on to produce it. So, voilà, a nice TV commercial. Simple concept and clean execution. Back then I never thought that my idea had wings.

I know, I know, I’ve been going through my archives a lot lately.

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Graphic Design for VIP +Booze

It’s true that in Haiti activities range from, uhh, ten-thousand types of drinking and eating and party activities (a.k.a. socializing). So, who ever told you that there’s nothing to do in Haiti is sorely mistaken! Best of all an international DJ is coming on the 8th to little town Haiti to make the party hot! So if you want to be in one of the coolest event in town and be the man with the VIP table at Taras, like Prestige in Facebook and join the contest! And remember, the VIP table comes with booze (I imagine it to be free booze galore!).
 

A Facebook & Google Ad campaign for Prestige Beer, designed by yours truly. Hehe! ;-)

Full page print ad for Ticket Magazine in Haiti for Prestige Premium Lager Beer.

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Book Design: Nazareno

Stumbled upon this book design in my archives from our publication office back at The University of the Philippines Diliman Information Office. It was a project on the 400 years of devotion to The Black Nazarene in the Philippines. It was a nice project. Unfortunately, I moved to a new career in an advertising agency as an art director before the project saw its completion.
 

Book jacket. The book was an unfinished project with Prof. Rubén D.F. Defeo of The Univeristy of the Philippines, Diliman... wonder what happened to it? Cover photo is an original photo from my colleague in UPDIO, Leonardo Reyes.

Sample spread of the book. Look at all the lorem ipsum! The photos here was taken from Google for demonstration purposes.

It is funny to see this now. At the time, I was struggling to disprove god’s existence never knowing that what I was actually struggling against was not god but the form of established religion that has lost its spiritual essence. Little did I know that eventually this will lead me to discover the path to what Ekhart Tole and other contemporary spiritual teachers call “The True Religion.”

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