Creativity, experience and knowledge. Visual brings you 9 of the top local graphic designers / artists of our region. These 9 home grown talents will share to us their stories, processes and their exceptional work that made them 'one of the few brightest minds in our industry'.
Christopher Colinares + Pursuing Your Career & Photography
At the age of 26, he made a bold career move shifting from administrative work to digital photography. Now as one of Cebu's top wedding photographer, his expertise and unique experience make up an interesting topic to students and young professionals that pursuing one's 'desired career' is never an issue.
Genesis Rana + Print Commercial & Branding
Genesis will talk about his commercial print works and branding, backed with his experiences working for advertising agencies outside the Philippines when he was still 18 years old. He is currently a partner and the creative director of a design agency.
Glenn Lomon + Web Design & Interface
Glenn is one of the best web designer in the country. He is currently working as a fulltime offsite design/interface guy for an agency in the US. He is practically one of the few people in Cebu who can design digital interfaces for just about anything visual.
Kristy Anne Ligones + Shirt & Apparel Design
KDLIG, as she is fondly called by her friends, is a winner of Threadless. Representing the women side of design, she will share her award-winning works in shirt design and illustration.
Leo Guevarra + Graphic Design
Leo is one of the design pioneers in Cebu. He holds two bachelor degrees but chooses to be a designer. His works have already been an inspiration to young local designers. His cutting edge style made him a finalist in Adobe International Digital Imaging Competition last 2002.
Nicolo Nimor + Shirt & Apparel Design
Practically one of the famous names in the international arena of apparel and shirt design, Nicolo is a perennial winner of every shirt design contest one could think of. At the young age of 21, he already has his own clothing line, Nick Automatic.
Niel Quisaba + Digital Illustration
Niel's body of work ranges from illustration to cartoon design. He also does illustrations for magazines, designs snowboards and conceptualizes colorful cute characters. His work has been featured in Computer Arts and other respected digital illustration magazines.
Pierre Famador + Digital Matte Painting & Character Design
Pierre is a fine arts graduate with a lot of passion for both traditional and digital painting. He started his career in digital design as a cartoon animator before he fell in love with matte painting. He's an all-around guy endowed with varied skills that he even designs and manufactured gaint puppets in his spare time.
Wilmer Olano + Local Web Business & Strategy
Wilmer started his web design/development firm in 2004, practically doing every imaginable role for the company to run. In spite of the economic crisis, he managed to land projects with local companies and government agencies. Wilmer will share to us his success in running a local web business shop.
