Imagine a world without form

"Imagine Life without ID" conceptualized by Kristoffer Carillo of DLS-CSB 

industrial design
- the professional service of creating and developing concepts and specifications that optimize the function, value and appearance of products and systems for the mutual benefit of both user and manufacturer (IDSA, link)

On June 29, 2012, industrial designers all over the world will celebrate the 5th World Industrial Design Day, a event started by International Council of Societies of Industrial Design half a decade ago to observe and recognize the profession of industrial design. For the past years, other countries in the world had held this event, and it will be the first time WIDD will be celebrated here in the Philippines. Organized by the newly-formed National Council of Industrial Designers of the Philippines (NCIDP), the event will showcase exhibitions, contests and seminars to provide further knowledge to practitioners about the profession. The carrying banners "Lead and Change by Design" and "Imagine A World Without Industrial Design" will leave everyone wondering how the world will turn out if all the inventions are still the way they are (example, the steam locomotive as the primary transport, and even your iPhone or Blackberry still looking like an 80's handy phone). Eventually, everyone will also be challenged to think more rationally and design responsibly on how to make the world a better place with industrial design.

World Industrial Design Day in the Philippines will be held on June 29, 2012, from 12pm to 7pm (*updated time) at the De La Salle College of St. Benilde- School of Design and the Arts, Pablo Ocampo St., Manila.

More information can be found on NCIDP's offical website at www.ncidp.cc and Facebook page.

See you at the event! image via Nielson Navarrete

Pen and ink

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad." 

- Salvador Dali

Let me leave this 2008 sketch right here to remind me that I can draw before. LOL. These days, all I sketch are cars and products and anything design-related. No room for art. No room for expression.

I guess the first person to criticize an artwork is the artist himself. Never mind how others see your work (unless you're a "professional artist", if there exists such a profession), because the the message you convey is limited to how far your imagination can go. And the main goal is to show how you feel or what you think, not what society is telling you to do.

Command Your Street: 3rd gig at Amos

Hear ye, hear ye! This song entitled Biyahe Bagahe (Travel Baggage) is one of the original compositions by my band Command Your Street. Video was recorded fresh off our June 14 gig at Amos Cafe, Kamias. Hope you enjoy! More after the jump.

The Piscean and the Sea

Summer is not summer unless there is beach involved.

Finally, after two years of not feeling the waves crash upon my legs and feet, I went back to the sea. It wasn't easy to come near the beach at those years, as I have worked abroad for a long time and travel wasn't much given a chance. So right then after I arrived back in the country, I immediately planned out how to get to the nearest sea to swim in. See how water-deprived this Fish was? Haha. But that didn't work out either, and I have to wait for a month to finally able to swim. The opportunity opened up when a Bicol trip was planned.

It was amazing. I haven't been to Bicol for about six years, so this travel was like a shot on two chances. I spent more than a week there, enjoying the current festival for Mayon in Albay, and then then going for a boat-ride and island hopping at the tip of Luzon in Sorsogon. I was also inspired enough to capture every moment in my camera. (That video posted up there says it all.) Definitely one good summer story.