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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Super Designers

One of those nice magazine ads created in PubliGestion S.A.

Like Flash imbued with super speed, you go down to the brasserie, whip your camera out, zoom pass from one tank to the other, click, click, hop back to the car, jump into Photoshop, edit, edit, layout, design… the next morning client and colleagues come wowed by your superhero feat!  
One of the joys of working as a graphic designer in Haiti is it pushes you to your limits and forces you to go out of your comfort zone. With tight deadlines (very tight) and with the least amount of resources you find yourself creating a design that would’ve taken twice the time and thrice the resources in other countries. 
This Brana ad was created like that. The result is a pleasing design. Of course, the first paragraph is an exaggeration of speed but I imagine (actually, it feels like it) that’s how we work as graphic designers in Haiti. Haha! 

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Hello World: Whitespace Love is On!

This was the original plan for the blog... proved to be too much work & involvement. -_-"

Finally, after much mental masturbation and procrastinating (since, errr, last year), Whitespacelover blog is up and running! Writing you from the sunny island, Haiti.

Much could be said about trying to be things which you’re not, and that is the excuse for the delayed release of this blog: if you’re a graphic designer you don’t try to code CSS for a blog template, that’s like trying to become fluent in Chinese in 10 seconds! It’s a real waste of time. You’re better off reciting all Photoshop hotkeys to impress the ladies.

So without further blah blahs, let me introduce you to Whitespacelover—an online space for my portfolio, recent works and anything of visual nature! Expect a few tips and tricks along the way and from time to time, some emo entries, so bear with me. But for the most part we’ll all be love, life and peace.

Enjoy! More good things to come!

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