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-Bob Ong

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A site full of wit and charm
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It seems like a lot of Philippine banks are into rebranding lately, in a Web 2.0-ish fashion. There’s UCPB, BDO, UnionBank, Metrobank and now Bank of the Philippine Islands or BPI.

The rebranding, in my opinion, is a success. They managed to make the font look up-to-date without loosing the class of the old logo.

Lately I’m really loving the font they used. It is very modern and sleek. The problem is, I don’t know the name of the font. Whoever correctly identifies the font wins a cookie.

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Found some very nice designer country logos. Check them out (Click on the thumbnail below):

The original post is in Spanish(?), so I don’t really know who to to give credit to. No Philippines in the list, though

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This post is for Manny. You are the greatest! Mabuhay ka Manny!

Hatton, you’re next!!!!

“His punches are just too fast” - David Diaz

Sorry guys no match videos here, YouTube keeps blocking them

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Over the past few days I’ve been appreciating Puddle of Mudd’s last album Famous. I’ve had it when I first came out October of last year, but I’ve never really had the chance to appreciate it as I did now. I mean I love POM but when on my first few listens, “Famous” didn’t really stick. Their sound has sort of changed and I guess that alienated me.
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Somebody sent this to me before. I lost the link and tried hard to find the link again. Luckily berg of PW posted the site on the forums. Taken from: http://logologos.blogspot.com/

Electrolux

Quaker

Apple

Wikipedia

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Smart Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of PLDT and one of the top 2 mobile telecommunications providers in the Philippines, is now among the rebranders of 2008. The difference is subtle yet fairly noticeable even to non-designers.

The old “S” now appears blocky compared to the smooth contour of the new “S”. Gone is the bold blue, replaced with a subdued, more saturated sky blue. The black jagged lines (”radio waves”) are replaced by straight swishes of the same sky blue color. A similar swish is enlarged at the bottom, emphasizing the word “SMART” to complete the effect.

Old logo:

New logo:

What do I think of the rebranding? I think it looks nice and makes for very “clean” designs, but it lost some of the boldness and professionalism of the old logo.

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Stumbled upon a site called Designing The News while browsing Bryan Veloso’s blog. The author plays around with typography and similar visual elements to enhance “news” (aka text) and give it a visual flair.

His “Week of the Guardian” series is particularly interesting. I have special interest in the following entries:

“Wednesday”

“Thursday”

“Friday”

The rest of the series can be found below:

• Monday - A typographic and layout based piece previewing the contents of the paper as ingredients.
• Tuesday - A list of headlines contained in the paper illustrated with references to the article or subject.
• Wednesday - A polar graph inspired layout mapping the stories and categories on colour coded concentric circles.
• Thursday - A content map showing the relationships between information inside of a circular container.
• Friday - A text heavy piece highlighting the sheer amount of information contained within in the paper.
• Saturday - A grid based typographic piece, showing patterns and author relationships through the paper.

For more, head over to Designing In The News

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A lot of people ask me why I choose to stay in the Philippines instead of going abroad to earn a bigger salary. I never really had a straight answer to that question. Most of the time I would just say that I prefer staying in the Philippines, or that going abroad is a sign of weakness, and sometimes I even say that I’d rather stay here and help my country men. After receiving the below e-mail I got to thinking that maybe, just maybe, it might be my love for the country …

MY SHORT ESSAY ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES
Jaeyoun Kim

Filipinos always complain about the corruption in the Philippines . Do you really think the corruption
is the problem of the Philippines ? I do not think so. I strongly believe that the problem is the lack of love for the Philippines .

Let me first talk about my country, Korea . It might help you understand my point.
After the Korean War, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. Koreans
had to start from scratch because entire country was destroyed after the Korean War, and we had no
natural resources.

Koreans used to talk about the Philippines , for Filipinos were very rich in Asia . We envy Filipinos.
Koreans really wanted to be well off like Filipinos. Many Koreans died of famine.
My father & brother also died because of famine. Korean government was very corrupt and is still very
corrupt beyond your imagination, but Korea was able to develop dramatically because Koreans really
did their best for the common good with their heart burning with patriotism.
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