Nodame Cantabile has done a great job at bringing classical music appreciation to an unlikely crowd: the manga-reading, anime-watching one. (Then again, anime/manga has always been an unusual yet innovative medium.) It has done so not only through its story, the love and music of a chaotic pianist who plays everything by ear and an acrophobic, thalassophobic, arrogant musical genius who dreams of becoming a conductor. Not only through accessible […]
Dayo is a full-length, digitally animated film that brings to life the Philippines’ most beloved mythological creatures with a modern-day twist. Its creators, Cutting Edge Studios, invited bloggers to check out their facilities, the animation process, and a sneak peek of the movie—to be released this December as an entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival and to the rest of the world with the title “Wanderer”. I wasn’t able […]
It seems there’s a new Yahoo! logo that is popping up, though only so rarely: Mysterious New Logo for Yahoo! by Noel Perlas I normally hate it when big brands redesign their logos. Often the rebranding just doesn’t make sense. But I must say, there’s reason enough behind the new Yahoo! logo—flaunt the purple and make the name more readable, while still making sure it has that outlandish feel. I’m […]
The Engine Room is a reality show by MTV and HP that is open to digital artists all over the world. Casting is still open at the website until June 30. 16 people will be flown to New York City commencing on or about July 18, 2008 through on or about August 16, 2008 (collectively, the “Filming Dates”). They will compete in teams of 4 participants each for prizes by […]
On Urduja, the first full-length Filipino animated film about a legendary warrior princess from Pangasinan: Maybe our culture is so enmeshed with foreign culture that we can no longer distinguish one from the other. The story is ours; the animation isn’t. It would have been better if we handed our history and mythology over to Disney; I bet they would have created something more Filipino.
Update: For further reading, please refer to these pages: w3.org FAQ on Using b and i tags; HTML5 spec for the i element. One of the best examples of the shift towards designing with web standards is the use of semantic HTML tags, rather than purely presentational ones (since we have CSS for that). Tags like <b> and <i> have gotten a lot of flak for doing nothing but make […]
Yes, T-Mobile supposedly owns the rights to the color magenta. I just learned about this from thehappycorp, whose cheery logo also happens to be same hue. COLOURlovers warns against the use of said color in the industry which the company belongs to. It’s telecommunications, and that’s a pretty broad area. The article also quotes exactly which type of magenta is “owned” by T-Mobile and its mother company, Deutsche Telekom. Apparently […]
I find the awe over kids drawing paper laptops as design inspiration surprising and ironic. (You can find more photos of the kid’s “laptop club” in this interview.) The article says we should pay attention to how these schoolchildren are designing their pretend laptops: The kids have seen and used computer keyboards. Their designs are partly their own memory of what computer keys they’ve seen, party keys they would like […]
My mom chuckled when she saw me amused over an article about fonts in the local newspaper. She never really saw what was so interesting about “fonts”—which she’d probably refer to the ones she’d choose from a drop-down menu in Microsoft Word—much less the abomination that is Comic Sans MS. (Okay, I’ll admit this once and for all: I did use said font when I knew no better. It was […]
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made in the Philippines by Sophia Lucero.