Did a couple of officially licensed tees for Coke a while back. Not sure if they ever got to print!

As some of you may know, I design t-shirts for a living. In my talk in Ayala Museum last year, I was asked what's next for me. My answer was that I'd like to "give back".

Along with the talented illustrator Feanne, we've designed a t-shirt for a cause, where all proceeds go to Architecture for Humanity's Philippine Floods Response Program. Basically Feanne did the illustration and I provided some direction and coloring haha.

The program's goal is to raise $100,000 for the program. The sale of the t-shirt is our own little way to help achieve this. The design contains endangered Philippine species as both national symbols, and as symbols of our hope to use our land more wisely.

Hope you can support by buying some t-shirts or spreading the word to your network!

Thank you so much.

AJ

Just a couple tribute pieces to the Man on the Moon. 

I've been lucky enough to be part of a collab for Nike Cortez's 40th anniversary. If you watched Forrest Gump, then you'll now what I did with this pair. =) 

If you're a fan of the Miami Heat, check out this tee I designed for Last Rights. http://store.lastrightsinc.com

Here are my two entries to the The Dark Knight Rises contest over at Designbyhumans.com. Please vote by clicking on the images.

I’m a big fan of basketball and have been Inspired by the story and rise of New York Knicks player Jeremy Lin. So I decided to create my own take on what I think Nike could do for him in terms of branding and identity. I'm not an expert in this field so I did this exercise to hone my skills.
Below are a few ideas. If you like what you see, let’s work together. 

PROCESS

I started sketching out ideas. Exploring several possible directions. Playing around with his initials, "JL" and his jersey number "17". I also explored doing a logo based on "LIN" or "JLIN". 

I then started picking out some directions I thought would work and went on to recreate them in Adobe Illustrator. I really liked using "JL" because of the symmetry of the letters. You can essentially create the "J" and just flip it horizontally to use as the "L".

I also liked the idea of of designing "LIN" as an ambigram. It worked because the "in" also become his jersey number "17". 

The other directions included designing "JLIN" or "JL17" and make it look like Chinese characters. But not really sure if this is ok given the cultural implications.

I felt strongly about the solution below because it was flexible enough to be used in many ways. As "JL", "JLIN", or "JL17". And by playing around the placement of "JL" and "IN/17", I found out that it creates a cross based on the negative space. As some people know, Jeremy Lin is very open about his faith.

Application

The next part was to apply the logo on posters, apparel, and other merchandise. Nike, after all, needs to sell products. I love the blue and orange of the New York Knicks so this was my jump-off point in choosing the colors. 

Posters

Shoes

Apparel

Patterns

Website

I've always been a fan of what Paper Root Clothing is doing and I'm glad they picked up this calligraphy piece I did a while back. Now available on shirts on sweatshirts! Click on images to buy!

Here's the tee I did early this year for Graniph. Check it out http://www.graniph.com/en/product/ALL_ITEMS/T_Shirt/designID-001007011100.html

It's been an awesome experience working with the guys at Artwork for some collaboration t-shirts. They also have some designs from some other local talents! 

Here's a few closeups of the work I did for ESPN Classic. More info on the project on my Behance folio http://www.behance.net/gallery/ESPN-Classic-Great-Individuals/1884937

Been getting into some brush lettering lately. The brush pen was given to me by Leigh Reyes (ECD of Lowe Philippines). Here's a few samples.

The wife and I had some thank you cards made too!

Some recent stuff I've done for http://www.formathletics.com 

Visual.ly just guessed a profile of me based on my tweets. It's amazing the system knew I was a designer!