Graphika Manila International Multimedia Design Conference is the premier multimedia and graphic design event in the Philippines. Since 2006, Graphika Manila has attracted over 3,500 design students and professionals and is now hailed as one of the most influential multimedia art events in the country. As it celebrates its fourth year running, Graphika Manila once more brings together Manila’s creative minds to listen to inspiring stories from and celebrate the works of the best multimedia and graphic designers from the Philippines and from around the globe.
Graphika Manila has been instrumental in bringing in some of the industry’s most respected professionals to share their experiences in multimedia and design, including top design firms Pixar, tokidoki, MK12, WeWorkForThem, Hue Visualab, The Asylum, TeamManila, Electrolychee, Collision Theory, The Acid House, and Inksurge, and renowned personalities Joshua Davis, Michael Young, Avid Liongoren, Robert Alejandro, Nico Puertollano, Drew Europeo, Steve Tirona, Halil Yildirim and Paul Guadalupe.
SPEAKERS:
Christian Alzmann /Visual Effects Art Director / ILM / http://www.ilm.com——–Industrial Light & Magic is arguably the biggest super-power in visual effects. Started in 1975 by George Lucas to create the effects for the original Star Wars, ILM have been involved in pretty much every production in which special effects have been used. The list is too long to put here, but a few highlights include the aforementioned Star Wars films, the Indiana Jones movies, E.T the Extra-Terrestrial, The Never Ending Story, Back to the Future, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers, War of the Worlds, Pirates of the Caribbean and more recently The Transformer movies and Star Trek.
ILM will be represented by Visual Effects Art Director, Christian Alzmann. He has recently worked on Terminator: Salvation, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, War of the Worlds, Star Wars, Van Helsing, among others.
Stefan Sagmeister / http://www.sagmeister.com——– Stefan Sagmeister is one of the most important graphic designers in today’s design world. His work has been hailed as influential, iconic and original, often marked with his unique sense of black humor and offset with simple, but striking D-I-Y esque techniques. His graphic design education was completed at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and later, at the Pratt Institute in New York under a Fullbright scholarship. Sagmeister has worked with a diverse set of clients, from designing album covers for Lou Reed, David Byrne and the Rolling Stones to working on branding, packing and graphics for The Guggenheim Museum, AIGA Detroit, Adobe, Time Warner and HBO. Today, Austrian born Sagmeister heads his own design firm in New York, Sagmeister Inc.
Stafan has received a Grammy Award in 2005 in Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package category for art directing Once in a Lifetime box set by Talking Heads. He would also work on the 2008 David Byrne and Brian Eno album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.
Jens Gehlhaar / Creative Director /Brand New School / http://www.brandnewschool.com——–With offices in New York and Los Angeles, Brand New School is a bicoastal directing collective working in all fields of commercial art. Ever evolving, the studio continues to cultivate a sense of wonder and exploration.
In the past two years, directing national and global commercials for Toyota, Emirates Airlines, Chase, HP, American Express and Microsoft, Brand New School has worked with agencies such as Wieden+Kennedy, McCann Erickson, Crispin Porter+Bogusky and TBWA\Chiat\Day. The company has also helmed viral ads for VW, Budweiser, and Adidas, produced environmental video installations for Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Toyota and Adobe as well as a web site for Bank of America.
Founded by Partner/CD Jonathan Notaro in 2000, BNS has supplied branding consultation and design to American Express, Apple, AT&T, Lexus, Motorola, Buick, UPS, and MTV2, in addition to designing the network identities for Fuel TV, VH1 Classic, and International Music Feed. The company’s award-winning work for Fuel TV included writing and directing over 20 station identifiers. For two years, BNS was responsible for promoting and designing MTV’s Sunday Stew programming block. Additionally, it has created over 80 Art Breaks for both MTV and MTV2, and has produced over 120 mini promos for the MTV 10 Spot Drop.
With its expanding horizons, for its artists and clients alike, BNS represents an opportunity to play at work, to conduct experiments in image-making, and to feed the inspiration that drives the industry.
After leading his own print design studio in Germany for six years, Jens Gehlhaar enrolled at the graphic design program at California Institute of the Arts, where he graduated with an MFA in 1997.
For the next few years, he worked as a freelance art director, graphic and type designer for Wieden+Kennedy, ReVerb, Imaginary Forces, Razorfish, Mike Mills, David Carson, Dreamworks and ESPN. His most prominent projects included the design of the launch print campaign for Microsoft Windows 98, the 1998-2001 network graphics package for ESPN X Games, as well as exclusive typeface designs for the Steven Spielberg movie “Minority Report” and for the 2005 redesign of TV Guide.
From 1998-2001, he taught upper level typography, type design and motion typography at California Institute of the Arts and Art Center College of Design.
In 2001, he joined Brand New School as Creative Director, where he has co-directed commercials for Microsoft, Volkswagen, Apple, Toyota, Vodafone and Budweiser. Over the last two years, he has directed a global campaign for Emirates Airlines that was shot in Dubai and Kuala Lumpur. He has been responsible for the network identities of VH1 Classic, Fuel TV, The International Music Feed and MTV Sunday Stew. He has also written and directed dozens of live action station identifiers for VH1 Classic, Fuel TV, IMF and MTV, as well as a music video for the British band Muse.
Among other awards, he has received a Sports Emmy for television graphics, an ADC Gold Medal for live action direction, a TDC award for type design and an MVPA award for Special Effects.
Ryan Vergara and Garovs Garrovillo / http://www.everywhereweshoot.com——– The duo behind Everywhere We Shoot!, Ryan Vergara and Garovs Garrovillo, started out as two kids who would meet up at a fast food near school, just to hang out. After indulging in more hangouts and awkward silences and some photobooth flirtation, they ended up smitten not only with each other, but also with each other’s good taste. Both were obsessed with magazines and irony, and working together just happened naturally. It also helped that they were trained under College of St. Benilde’s Design & Arts department (Ryan was a Multimedia Arts major, Garovs, Fashion Design and Merchandising).
Pancho Esguerra, Mark Mendoza, and Greg Garcia / http://www.wearespringboard.net——–Springboard is a 3 headed directing beast that channels their powers from different disciplines of commercial art to creates opportunities to produce inspiring and innovative work.
In the past three years, Pancho Esguerra, Mark Mendoza, and Greg Garcia have collaborated on commercial projects for brands such as Coke, Motorola, Nescafe, Nike, Unilever, Unilab and Tanduay, as well as music videos for top artists like Bamboo, Urbandub, Sandwich, Kyla, Sinosikat?, Up dharma down and Taken by Cars.
The creative success of these projects has led them to seek ways to formalize their combined efforts, Springboard was born.
Dedicated to their worship for art through photography, fashion, and graphic design, they established a style that’s unmistakably EWS: ironic and playful, always with a hint of humor.
They simplify the complicated, and exaggerate the basics. They clean up the dirty and stain on the clean. They glamorize the masses, and make the high-end seem reachable.
Angel Guerrero/ Editor-in-Chief / Adobo Magazine / http://www.adobomagazine.com——–Adobo Magazine, the Philippine Advertising and Brand Communications magazine, is the leader publication for the advertising and marketing community. It’s the best resource for the latest news on advertising campaigns, current trends, industry issues, insights, the media landscape, consumer “hot buttons” and more. We profile the most influential ad people and showcase creative talents and their work. We share relevant case studies and feature stories that uplift and inspire both the professional and the student communities.
Adobo Magazine will be represented by Angel Guerrero, Editor-in-Chief, she would not only talk about Adobo Magazine but design awards and competitions, as well as the role of design in advertising.
Graphika Manila International Multimedia Design Conference / Saturday, 15 August 2009 / 11am to 6pm / Premiere Cinema, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City.
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