Events / Flow 6 Launch • "Flow is my Shelter"

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☞ July 27 2010, Flow 6 Launch @ Parallax Studios

Events / Inspirations

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@flowphilippines / http://www.flowphilippines.com

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Magazines / Flow 5 is Just Around the Corner...

  
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...and I might have to let it just pass by. Oh noes. But this sure sounds exciting. Any guesses? Riccardo Tisci for Flow? Kahl Lagerfeld? Rei? :-D

Magazines / Mag Rack: August 2009 / Uno, Flow, Preview, Garage

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As usual, Rogue's always the last one to appear at the stands. But if, like me, you want to see the new covers ASAP, go directly to the site (or here!).

• UNO / I never really planned on buying Uno again, but upon seeing the stuff inside (via an open copy at the store), I gave in to the temptation and got one. Interesting eds and features, though it's quite bitin. And ohyeah, the JC-super-raw-burnt-sepia-effect/style plus the squat pose? IMHO it's kindof getting tired na. But a nice issue, overall. I esp. liked the illustrations on the "bombshell" feature. (I just hope they would reconsider a soft redesign to make Uno look less Rogue-ish.)
• FLOW / Very very very nice. And quite unexpected too. When I found about who this issue's curator was (Cesar Gaupo), I thought I was in for some fierce shoe/fasyon surprise. Not! I like how they avoided the Cesar-Gaupo-let's-feature-shoes-and-fashion formula and offered us something different (though I would def not mind if they included a pair or two, hehe). I just noticed that it used the same paper all through out (compared to past issues where different papers are used) and that it did not have any page numbers (interesting move although I'd love to ask why because somehow I find it confusing).
  
• PREVIEW / I think the cover is quite static. Which is probably the point? Cause the healine says "back to basics"? It's okay looking but ok looking is not something I'd use to describe Preview, esp its covers. The past six, seven issues all had the wow covers save for this one. But inside, bravo. I like. Just bitin, as usual. More eds, please! :-) Let's all hope that the September ish would be something thick and heavy.
• GARAGE / Happy birthday! Garage turns one with this issue. This is also the male fasyon mag equivalent of Preview's best dressed issue. I loved all the eds, the features, and the new design which looked solid and polished. I liked everything about it except for one thing: the section openers that looked part-Elle, part-Vogue Paris. Also, just a humble word of advice: it's nice to see Garage's design getting better issue after issue but redesigning over and over is quite tiring, no. Also, I think that the foil blocking could be better. Nice move there but IMHO, it just looked quite sad (I checked all the copies, they're all the same..). Look at Preview's foil-blocked title, it's flawless. Still, this is something worth buying esp. now since it's Garage's anniversary issue. Again, happy mag birthday!
  

Magazines / Mag Rack: April 09

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Still waiting for Rogue & T3. I loved it all! Round up later.

I got so excited with Preview that I dropped it; I wanted to avoid folding it so I put it inside the plastic carefully. But I missed it and it slipped! In such cases: let it go because if you try to catch or hold it, you'll just probably crumple it more/tear it apart. And don't forget to "keep calm and carry on".



PS— Big big thanks to Team Flow for my copy of Flow 3 :-)

Art & Design / "Flow 03" @ Silverlens Gallery

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Flow 03 is out now! I got to attend the formal launch at Silverlens Gallery last Tuesday (thanks Team Flow!!). I'll just finish a few more works for school, and I'll be back here with the rest of the Flow 03 launch pics.

03: FLOW MAKES HISTORY

Renowned and respected names are going with the FLOW. Top lifestyle and design gurus Ricky Toledo and Chito Vijandre, the proprietors behind the home and design concept stores Firma, Felicity, and AC+632, hold the reigns for FLOW 03.

In FLOW magazine’s third issue, Ricky and Chito take the readers on a journey to the past. This issue brings to life the vanishing art of paper cutwork, showcases paintings and puppets which are inspired from local folklore, and makes available to the reading public some antique pieces that have never been shown before. In his quest to promote literacy and education, another collector shares with us his love for his prized possessions. This issue also tells us the story of how a Filipino scenographer made it big in New York, and treats our eyes to items that are updated by visionaries to fit today’s times. Of course, an issue of FLOW would not be complete without its array of arresting images, insightful articles, and inspired layouts.

Certainly, one cannot fully understand the future without realizing the importance of the past. FLOW 03 promotes and preserves these traditions, believing that it is our heritage that makes us what we are now, and what we will be.

To formally launch the third issue, FLOW held a special exhibition and sale of works by the contributors and artists featured in the magazine on March 17, 2009 at the Silverlens Gallery. The exhibit will run from March 17 to 28, 2009, and is composed of elegant pieces by Bea Valdes, Wynn Wynn Ong, George Sy Gobio and Robert Langenegger; lush artworks from Allan Balisi, Bruihn, Patricia Eustaquio, Nikki Luna, Troy Ignacio, Jun-Jun Sta. Ana, Randy Solon, Alex Tee, and Tatong Torres; outstanding photographs by Mannix Santos and Kadin Tiu; and a magnificent collaboration between Juan Caguicla and Ronald Ventura.

FLOW 03: The Launch would not have been possible without the support of Absolut Vodka, Restaurante Pia Y Damaso, B&B Italia, Hotel Celeste, Jewelmer, Vagary, Alternatives Food Corporation, and Silverlens Gallery.

*FLOW magazine is published by October Eighty Publications, Inc., and is available at all major bookstores and newsstands.