Adobe CS5.5 launch in Manila!

Engage the widest audience possible with the latest print, mobile, and interactive features.

When you need to deliver rich, immersive experiences, master an ever-growing array of mobile screens, and keep ahead of the trends in digital publishing, you need the power of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5.

If you are looking to improve your workflow, stay on top of industry trends, and monetize your creations, it's time to discover the new possibilities with Adobe Creative Suite 5.5.

Join us at the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 roadshow where Adobe evangelists will share with you how Adobe Creative Suite tools have evolved to dramatically enhance your workflow and keep your skills fresh. You'll learn how to work faster and stay ahead of the latest trends, especially the rapid proliferation of mobile devices and the vast array of screen sizes.

YOU WILL DISCOVER HOW TO:

Design and develop rich browser based content for desktops or devices with the leading HTML5 authoring tools.

Develop rich interactive applications for Android, Blackberry, and iOS with Adobe AIR, Flash Professional and Flash Builder.

Create highly engaging magazines, corporate collateral, and advertisement including digital output and delivery through integration with the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.

Click here for the full agenda >

Catch CS5 live demo at Adobe Online Creative Festival! Last chance to register. Act now!

Let Adobe Creative Suite 5 put the mojo back into your creativity. Chat live with experts and special guests, get all your tough questions answered and get excited about creating anything you can imagine, imagine all that you can create!

Highlights at OCF:
•	See how the all-new Creative Suite 5 can help you deliver innovative ideas in print, web, interactive and mobile. Extend the reach of your creative abilities.
•	Still wondering if you should upgrade? Grab the chance to catch presenters demo all the new Creative Suite 5 features and chat live, dispel every doubt of upgrading to CS5.
•	Up your ante with insider know-how as our experts share with you tips and tricks up their sleeves.
•	Want to win a copy of Adobe® Creative Suite 5 Master Collection? Join us online on 26 October and you may be that lucky winner.

Adobe Roadshow 2010

Adobe Roadshow 2010 is specially designed to help you realise the best of CS5. From innovative tools to enhanced worklflowsm cross-media solutions to doverse content delivery, CS5 paves the way for efficiency, creativity, code-free interactive content and more.
Date: May 25, 2010
Morning Session: 0900hr – 1230hr
Afternoon Session: 1400hr – 1730hr
Location: AIM Conference Center Manila, Benavidez cor. Trasierra Sts, Legaspi Village, Makati City, Philippines
Organized By: Adobe

Lightbringer - Meralco's very own Transformer

Meralco Week 2010 - Elevation 

Last March 2010, Meralco (Manila Electric Company, Philippines) celebrated Meralco Week dubbed "Elevation" and I have been going in the head office's compound (Ortigas, Pasig) recently, picking up my girlfriend from Business Solutions Center.  In lieu of this month-long celebration, they have built their very own Transformer robot named Lightbringer, a company service vehicle.

The robot was amazingly constructed in detail at about 20 ft. in height, standing beside its vehicle form, an actual Meralco service unit --from which its actual parts the robot was built from.

Definitely creative!

Photos by Randy Paulino

iBlog Logo Design Contest

iBlog: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit holds a Logo Design Contest

Click Here for details

Graphika Manila 09

July 15, 2009

SM Mall of Asia Premier Cinema

The finale event of the Manila Design Week 2009, and most probably the notable. What has become (in its 4th run now) the premier annual event in the Graphic Design world here in the Philippines - Graphika Manila.

This was my first attendance since the event's inception in 2006, together with the Orange & Bronze Creative team.

What surprised me in the event itself is when I found out the fact that Aram Beheshti, all the while, is Graphika Manila's foremost inventor and big boss, who's actually a schoolmate of mine in Don Bosco during college. We soon hope Orange & Bronze Creative team would be a sponsor on next year's event!

Speakers:

Stefan Sagmeister - Sagmeister Inc. New York
Christian Alzmann - Art Director, Industrial Light and Magic
Jens Gelhaar - Creative Director, Brand New School
Ryan Vergara & Garovs Garovillo - Everywhere We Shoot
Angel Guerrero - Editor in Chief, Adobo Magazine
Pancho Esguerra, Greg Garcia, Mark Mendoza - Springboard

Orange & Bronze Creative team:

Graphic/Web Designers Edwin Lacap, Randy Paulino, Dhoris Tayag, and Mikko Clauor, with Writer Christel Amparado, and Business Analyst Clair Ching

Adobe Creative Festival Philippines 2009

July 29, 2009

Crowne Plaza, Manila Galleria

A colleague from O&B Creative, Mikko Claour and I went to the Adobe Creative Festival - Live in the Philippines. A short but really noted event.

This was actually Adobe's official launch of Creative Suite 4 (CS4) here in the Philippines. Just recently, we in the Creative team of Orange & Bronze just purchased our own sets of Adobe CS4 Design Premium, and everything they've presented in the event are included in the tutorial packages included in the bundle. Not only that, it's all available (and more) online here , so you really didn't miss anything - except the in-your-face and real time demonstration of all that's new in CS4.

Everything from Acrobat's Portfolio builder, Photoshop's ability to open and edit .3ds files, InDesign's very cool feature of exporting pages to Flash (.swf) with instant presentation transitions, Flash and Premiere's ball joint features, Dreamweaver's new anchors, Premiere's meta tagging in videos thru speech translations...and so on...

Also noted is the Adobe Production Premium bundle and its summed up list and diagram of what's what in post production process:

Integration & Output

Plan (Illustrator & Photoshop) --> Edit (Premiere) --> Motion Graphics, Compositing & Visual Effects (Aftereffects) --> Audio Editing & Mastering (Soundbooth) --> Deliver Anywhere (Flash & Encore)

Tickets to Graphika Manila 2009

Got now my ticket to Graphika Manila 2009

Our team (O&B Creative) will be a part of the event and already I could feel the anticipation from my colleagues!

8th Philippine Toys, Hobbies, and Collectibles Convention

http://toyconph.com/

Last June 13, 2009, my significant other Nikki and I went to the 8th Philippine Toys, Hobbies, and Collectibles Convention @ SM Megatrade Hall

And what to expect?

Cam trip and food trip - got our freebie Shawarmas by mistake, accidentally met my long lost elementary buddy, lots of ubergeeks in costumes! and yeah, got to take a pic with gud 'ol Combatron!

Photos are taken and owned by Randy Paulino

Form Function Class - 1st Philippine Web Design Conference - Event Notes

http://formfunctionclass.com

Last July 10 2009, I attended the 1st Philippine Web Design Conference (Titled: Form Function & Class) at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), together with my colleagues at O&B.

This was the first conference sponsored by the Philippine Web Designers Organization, in which by now I would encourage as much Filipino Web / Graphic Designers to be a member of.

Among things I have particularly noted from the conference; aside from Lola Techie's current popularity in the local media and YouTube (as noted by Aileen Apolo of Google), here are a couple of few notes I have managed to key-in my phone during the event:

Yes, the fact that Bad habits and how to fight them, breaking your instincts

DESIGNERS - are inclined to do things a certain way

On to THE BUSINESS OF WEB DESIGN

by Gail dela Cruz-Villanueva

Exposure - Getting the Clients:

Online Opportunities: SEO, Directories, Link ADs, Placements, Blogging, Microblogging, Social Networks, Portfolio

Offline Opportunities: Tri-Media, Sponsorships, Word of Mouth

ONLINE PORTFOLIO should always contain:

• About Page
• Resume (for Freelancers & job seekers)
• Services
• Contact Info
• Work Showcase

QUALITY vs. QUANTITY? it's actually QUALITY = QUANTITY

DEALING WITH CLIENTS:

Before the Project:

• Gather as much project details as possible
• Make proposals clear and concise
• Include a cost breakdown (stock photos are billed later)
• Prepare a Contract/ MOA

* See samples of Project Cost Breakdown

During the Project:

(!) The Customer knows best...SOMETIMES

• Usability Issues with Clients:
• Artist + Programmer + Businessman
• Compromise Approach with Clients' desires
• Added Costs Approach
• Try to understand the client's requests
• Respect client's existing brand
• Be patient with disgruntled client IT reps and Webmasters
• Don't have the rockstar / diva attitude

After the Project:

• Provide Support
• Keep communication lines always open

Next Steps:

The 3 Types of Web Practitioners

• Employee
• Freelancer
• Business Owner

...and 3 Types of Business Registrations

• Sole Proprietorship
• Partnership (General & Limited)
• Corporation

Expanding your Business

Through Outsourcing, Direct Clients, and Other Online Ventures

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And what really stuck to me, is what Luis Buenaventura II presented in his talk on Strawberries, smlieys, and sheep - That there are only 3 things that should be kept in mind for a successful design and/ or business:

Promiscuity

Simplicity

Conformity

...and one last thing, a nicely put perspective that Tweeter has indeed evolved to a micro version of the web itself.

Manila Design Week 09

August 8 - 15 2009GRAPHIC DESIGNS MOVE.
It’s all about fusion as Manila Design Week 2009 promotes collaboration of artists in a week-long lineup of events to be held in different creative hot spots throughout the Metro, with each day showcasing a different theme.

Click Here for details

http://www.maniladesignweek.com/

Manila Design Week/Public Art: Call for entries bel ragay

Team Manila Graphic Design Studio, in cooperation with Bratpack, Ayala Malls,Summit Media and Adobo Magazine would like to invite creative talents to the Manila Design Week’s (August 8-15 2009) Public Art Project. This year’s concept and mission statement for the MDW 2009 is Graphic Design moves.

Interested creatives should send an email to Clara Balaguer (clara@teammanila.com) or Des Rimando (des@teamanila.com) to get a full creative brief on the project.

Graphika Manila 2009

Saturday, August 15 2009 @ the SM Mall of Asia

http://www.graphikamanila.com

Adobe Creative Festival Philippines on 07.29.2009

http://www.adobecreativefestival.com/philippines

Register to Adobe Creative Festival - Live in the Philippines before July 23 2009 Event will take place on Wednesday, July 29 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila

Manila Comic Con 2009

http://manilacomiccon.com/