One of the most exciting things from working in magazines is no doubt being able to surround yourself with a talented team of people and unleash your imagination creating eye-grabbing visual stories. A good example is this story created to feature the team of athletes representing Malaysia in the Beijing Olympics. Rather than falling into typical…
Perro Berde (‘green dog’) is a publication that tries to promote Spanish culture in the Philippines.
The major challenge to do this coffee table book was how to present the strong collection of portraits of filmmakers in a way where we give some personality to the package without ‘overwhelming’ the reader or getting in the way of the images. We fell in love with the work of Oscar Fernandez Orengo and…
Frank was a magazine intended for the expat community in Hong Kong. A private pitch done in 2010
Some of the covers from the art direction period in Malaysia Tatler, the leading high society magazine based in Kuala Lumpur
How to illustrate a feature that talks about the espouses of expatriates that follow them to Malaysia, where they won’t be allowed to work? maybe was just because it was a nice play with words, but making our ‘expatriate housewives’ look like ‘desperate housewives’ ended up, apart from quite a bit of fun, an instant eye-grabber in the…
Photo Shoot created for Malaysia Tatler. We prepared a special feature to celebrate Chinese New Year, based in Won Kar Wai’s famous movie ‘In the Mood for Love’. Special care was taken in finding suitable locations, and local fashion designers were contacted to create exclusive cheongsams for each shot. As it’s custom in this magazine,…
UNO is a men’s magazine from Guam, US. The magazine was created from scratch, with the brief of creating something that sits between FHM and Esquire. Covers always portrayed local girls that were not professional models, shot with a professional team in Manila.
