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One of the banners I designed last year.

Bantay Ceasefire Manual

This is the cover of the Bantay Ceasefire / Field Operations Manual I designed during the last quarter of 2010.  In 68 pages (including cover), the 6″x9″ manual was produced by the Mindanao Peoples Caucus (MPC), one of the non-government organizations that actively participates in the peace process for Mindanao.  MPC is headed by Atty. Mary Ann M. Arnado as the current MPC secretary general.

The manual is not for sale. It is intended for dissemination to the network of MPC in line with their role in the bantay ceasefire efforts in Mindanao.

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,700 times in 2010. That’s about 4 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 19 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 88 posts. There were 56 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 39mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was October 21st with 46 views. The most popular post that day was CCARRD T-Shirt Design.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were search.conduit.com, webpagelottery.com, zamoracartoons.blogspot.com, hoiantoday.info, and blogcatalog.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for grapika, stop the war, likasaka, agri pinoy, and agri pinoy logo.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

CCARRD T-Shirt Design April 2008
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2

Likasaka Book January 2009
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3

Stop the War Banner January 2009

4

The Artist November 2008
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5

T-Shirt Graphic Art March 2009
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Bantaaw Illustrations

Agri-Pinoy

I was asked to improve a concept of agri-pinoy logo of the Department of Agriculture while I was in Quezon Province for a book design of LIKASAKA Book 2. I submitted color variations but I did not know what was used. Anyways, one of the color combination is as posted here.

Sample Stickers

Recently, I designed about two dozens of stickers on aircooled volkswagen beetle and type 2 bus. The client (I presumed because I never asked her location), is based in Manila and we came to know through the internet and made the project via few email exchanges. The magic of today’s communication technology.

Rush Sticker & Mobile Signage

These were rush sample designs that my brother in faith asked me to do recently. He used the materials for his advertising proposal demo. The outputs would be stickers for tricycles as you can see from the graphic arts.

Election-Related Logo

That’s Presidential candidate Gibo Teodoro during the Presidential Forum held under the auspices of the Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) last April 16 here in Davao City.

The photo was taken by Sun-Star Davao (thanks, huh?) and I just lifted it from their site because of the backdrop logo that I designed. I was not able to go to the forum, that is why. See earlier post I made on this subject.

Illustration

Recently, I drew a dozen of greyscale illustrations for GTZ. I selected one drawing for a rush color rendering using Adobe Photoshop.

Listen Mindanao Forum Logo

Recent design I did for a local initiative in relation to the on-going national elections (for May 10, 2010).  I did two versions of the logo. The presidential forum will be held on April 16 in the afternoon in Holy Cross of Davao College (HCDC) under the auspices of the Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID).

The drawing represents the tri-people character of Mindanao – the Settlers (Christians), Indigenous People (we have about 18 tribes) and the Moro People. The kid at the end of the row represents hope, if you ask me. Then the background of the people faces, there stand the nature (to capture the animism of the IP), mosque and the church. The color scheme tries to capture the essence of the flag of the country. Btw, “paminaw” is Bisayan for “listen”. That’s it.