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08 August 2011

Flyer Design: Gaz Kole, Ba Li Gaz 2011

Gaz Kole Presents, Ba Li Gaz 2011!

Alright, let’s roll baby! Here we go again, Gaz Kole Entertainment presents, Ba Li Gaz 2011! A street drag race for supercars, mosnter bikes, ATVs and UTV’s! Claim your bragging right in the first official drag race in Haiti! Check out the race venue here.

Ba Li Gaz Flyer 2

Designing things for Gaz Kole is fun! There’s something about cars and speed that motivate designers more than pretty models posing in front of the camera… needing a bit of Photoshop. You could almost hear tires screeching and engines roaring when you do designs like this. Digitally adding the smoke effect was pure pleasure, like eating double bacon cheese burgers while running 200kmH on the streets of Port Au Prince, but of course without the jackhammer effect and crazy traffic common in Haitian streets.

So don’t forget to checkout Gaz Kole’s Ba Li Gaz 2011!

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25 July 2011

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.

21 July 2011

Barbancourt: un portrait

Rhum Barbancourt Billboard in Petion-Ville Haiti

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.

05 June 2011

Logo Padmasana

Keeping on a positive note, which we had for the past entries, here is a logo study made for Padmasana, the wellness clinic. It was a healing clinic in Pétion Ville, Haiti before the 7.o-you-know-what. It’s not exactly your typical clinic but it’s more like healing through meditation and connecting with your inner self. Personally, the singing bowls session (plus crystals) is enough to make everything alright. It’s as if you’re feeling your body for the first time. Inner peace oOoohhmmmmmmm, Oooohhmmmm...

This is the logo that got approved. Followed all the request of the client. ;-) The request, a lotus flower logo with very organic lines.

I personally like this one. Maybe it could still be revised to make it more simple.

Okay, least favorite, but some people really like it.

19 May 2011

Illustration: Cohones69 Mafia

Cohones69 Mafia. Those were the days... when everything seemed simple.

Some illustration a year back. This is perhaps how an Asian style mafia/gang would look, without the letters on the shoulders though.

And yeah, if you miss simple days... way way way back then, I endear you to leave a comment below.

14 May 2011

Illustration: Stuck

"Cat Lover"

"Where is Henri?" A custom book jacket for Henri's gift last Christmas.

Okay, let’s be happy today. It’s the weekend! Just found these illustrations that we could all get amused with. No complicated designs or effects today, just nice colors and lines.
Personally, I’m amused by how technology has evolved. Now we could draw straight in the computer using Wacom. Would really love to have a Wacom Cintiq one of these days, it’ll be a good upgrade to my Wacom Bamboo.
And I need to say it again, whitespace is not always white.

08 May 2011

Packaging Design: Belly Deli

Belly Deli rice meal is project with Creative Juice /Manila 5 years ago, but I never saw its completion.

Adobo is a traditional Filipino dish of pork marinated and cooked with vinegar, soy sauce, bay leaves and pepper corns.

Tinapa is smoked milk fish typically sold by street vendors in the Philippines.

Bagoong is a Filipino shrimp paste, sometimes made with crushed chili. Can be found in a salty-sweet or salty-hot variant.

Here are 5 reasons why we love working on Belly Deli’s packaging designs and why we would love to do more packaging designs in the future.

Packaging design incorporates all design and marketing aspects—logo, look, feel, legal requirements, shelf visibility etc.
Packaging design is the root of upcoming materials, such as posters, brochures, flyers and TVCs. Like a logo, a packaging is present everywhere. Personally, I think it is the less corporate version of a logo.
You need to think in terms of 3D when you make a packaging. There is front, back (in other cases side and bottom.) the material it’s made from, the thing that it will contain etc. It's a refreshing break from the 2D world.
When you’ve finally produced a packaging and see it come to life, it feels like you’re seeing/holding the Holy Grail.
Hands down, it’s fun to do packaging! You can play with it more.

Copyright © Whitespacelover a.k.a. poNg li 2011 All Rights Reserved, unless stated otherwise. You may copy and/or use the content of this blog only if you acknowledge this blog and other party as the source of the material. Belly Deli was a project with Creative Juice /Manila that never saw completion, and is displayed here for portfolio purposes.

01 May 2011

Ultimate Whitespace

One of the wonderful things you could do, is to exercise. It’s uncommon to many creatives to actually hit the gym, eat right and sleep right. It is as if a designing job comes with certain habits that naturally lead to a less healthy living. That’s why it's nice to work on the design and copywriting of a fitness centre. It somewhat awakens your gym mindset.

When you need to bring the best out of a brand/client, it also brings out the best in you.

Ultimate Fitness logo, was actually conceived thanks to a colleague's belt shape. The U in the logo is actually her, demonstrating a yoga position in our office at PubliGestion. It's surprising where inspiration comes.

Ultimate brochure, SideA. Everything we do, we take it to the Ultimate.

Ultimate brochure, Side B. Everything we do, we take it to the Ultimate.

16 April 2011

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!