Abandoned Insanity

A person named Yogesh Darge, based in Mumbai, India, has just plagiarized the logo I created for the Baguio Centennial 2009. The final version of the logo can be seen above.

Here is his Flickr page and the website of his “professional” Design-Studio.

Ay naku these plagiarists!

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UPDATE: 16 January 2008

I sent one warning FlickrMail and a Cease and Desist Order via eMail.

The plagiarist has so far removed the butterfly logo from most of the branding on his website, although the favicon is still the same copied logo based on this one.

The photos/graphics on his Flickr page are also now hidden (not deleted)… but his avatar is still the same plagiarized logo.

Even spelled “believe” wrong…

Whoever you are, if you want to make it big in the design industry you’ll have to be incredibly ORIGINAL and IMAGINATIVE. You can probably use somebody else’s work as INSPIRATION but never as a stencil for your own work.

Bad karma, bad karma, bad karma to you.

After a couple of delays the Philippine National Police - Criminal Investigation & Detection Group’s magazine is finally out! “The Quest” is published as part of the 55th Anniversary Celebrations of the PNP-CIDG.

This was a rather interesting project to work on as it is the first time I’ve made any publication that really didn’t have ‘real’ photos. Thank goodness for the Stck.Xchng! The challenge was how to create enough space for ‘artistic’ embellishments in the mostly text-heavy articles. Time constraints and other projects that coincided with it’s creation also kinda dampened my brain. Consequently, I’m not entirely happy with it design-wise as it normally takes me 3 to 4 revisions before I feel any sense of contentment - that point in the design process where you can no longer put anything in OR take anything out. In this case, I only had one… and on some pages, none at all.

Maryanne Moll, the project’s Editor and Manager, assures me everything is great and they (CIDG) are quite pleased with it.

I am really not sure.

Design skew is towards white, grunge font for that ‘urban’ look, and those bright yellow “Police Line” tapes as accent. Whole publication was made on three separate Macs running OS 9 to Leopard, InDesign CS & CS3, and a PC in the office for downloading a cascade of eMails.

I’m proud to announce that the design and coding I made for the University of Baguio Science High School website is a FINALIST for the 10th Philippine Web Awards in the schools category!

We are joined with 4 other finalists: Enderun Colleges, Smart Schools, Clara Ramona Dance School, and Marilou Diaz-Abaya’s Film School. Quite honestly, Enderun and Smart Schools are the only two sites that I feel are our best competition… although I have to say my design feels so different from all the others. I’m not sure though if the judges will find it more appealing. I’m keeping my fingers crossed… you know Pinoy designers naman, mahilig sa borloloy!

The awards night will be held on November 23 at the Teatrino in Greenhills.

If you’re reading this, please VOTE for us!!!

Online: Register to vote at www.philippinewebawards.com

SMS:  Text WEBBYS<space>VOTE<space>89 and send to 210 (Smart + TalkNText) or 2973 (Globe + Touch Mobile).

A third First?

Yes. Yes!

After a bit of apprehension over the acceptance of the new design for the University of Baguio Science High School’s GAZETTE, which featured over-sized photos and standard sized text throughout the publication, we again won a First Place for Best Designed School Paper at the recently concluded 2007 Philippine National Schools Press Conference held here in Baguio.

We also won 2nd Place for Best Features, and another 2nd Place for Best Opinion and Editorial Page. Dawn Elizabeth Niekamp, the Gazette’s Student Editor-in-Chief, romped away with a 1st Place trophy for Best Feature writing.

This is the third First Place for Design award that I’ve received at the National PressCon for three straight years. The first one was also for the Gazette October 2004 issue at the 2005 National PressCon… and the second for the Alluyon’s November 2005 edition (the UB Science High’s Filipino publication) at the 2006 National PressCon.

Probably the cherry on top of the cake for this year’s accomplishments is that the Gazette was adjudged the Philippine’s Overall Best School Paper, the very first time we’ve received the highest honor in the school’s 43 year history. We were previously ranked 2nd Overall in 2005, and 4th overall in 2006.

Here’s hoping we can do this all again at next year’s competition.

the back page (sige… subukan mo copy miss micu!)

After another school blatantly copied off my original design for the Gazette (which we have been using for the last three years), I was forced to make a drastic redesign at the last minute for this year’s edition.

Was going for the jumbo-magazine look with plenty of white space to make the stories readable. This is not your grand daddy’s newspaper.

Awards received at the 2006 Cordillera Regional Press Conference in Lagawe, Ifugao:

1st - Sports
2nd - Design
3rd - Editorial
4th - Features

… looking forward to the Nationals here in Baguio this February 2007.