Credits
Christian San Jose:
Christian San Jose is a Creative Director at HSThree Inc. Born and raised in the Philippines, Christian started his career as an Art Director at the country’s renowned Team Manila Graphic Design Studio in 2007. Soon after, he transferred his focus to freelance illustration, and within a year set out to build an incredible body of work that emphasizes on colorful imagery and playful characters. In that span, he took his talents overseas and collaborated with clients such as Adobe Systems Inc., Cobra Starship, Paramore, and Quiksilver. His illustration piece titled “Mecha-Labaw”, bagged the top prize in the 2009 Design By Humans $10,000 contest.
In 2011, he founded Create.ph, a studio that serves as the innovation lab of HSThree Inc. He leads a team of designers as they craft simple and thoughtful solutions with the digital medium. Aside from developing the branding and web presences of Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Albert Pujols, Jimmy Rollins, and Sugar Ray Leonard, Create.ph has previously worked with Def Jam Recordings, G.O.O.D. Music, The Coca-Cola Company, and Nike Inc.
Kasey Albano:
Kasey Albano is a graphic designer, illustrator, and never-giver-upper who believes in producing clean, vibrant, and thoughtful work. While taking up her degree in Communication at the Ateneo de Manila University, she discovered her knack for the visual arts and began designing for various student organizations. Eventually, she took up art direction internships at advertising agencies Leo Burnett and LOWE. In 2011, she graduated top of her class with Latin honors, which is pretty darn cool.
She is currently a design director at Create.ph, contributes editorial illustrations to various magazines and publications, and dreams of traveling the universe in a big blue box.
Rob Cham:
Rob Cham is a comics artist, graphic designer, and illustrator originally from Baguio City, but then moved to Manila for scholarly pursuits (a college degree). He graduated in 2011 from Ateneo De Manila University with a degree in Management. While studying in Ateneo, Rob was a recipient of the Loyola School Award for the Arts for Illustration, and has had his illustrations and comics published in various publications like the Philippine Star, and blogs around the world, and what image sites exist around the internet that would entertain his otherwise questionable comic strips and illustrations.
He currently shares a studio at Create,ph where he does stuff for money and is working on a collection of short comic strips to sell at comic conventions around Manila and at a lovely indie comic book store known as Sputnik found in Cubao Expo.
Roy Albert Macam:
Roy is a prominent fashion photographer in the Philippines. A graduate of the De La Salle University, he started his career as an apprentice for the renowned photographer Charles Lu in 2008. Under Lu’s wing, he got his first shoot for U Magazine. In 2009, Roy continued learning fashion photography under Doc Marlon Pecjo. He has published his works in top magazines and has worked with the best in the fashion industry.
Louie Barretto:
As a young Communication major of the Ateneo de Manila University, Louie Barretto had no idea that she would be given the opportunity to go to New York City after graduation for an internship with an avant-garde theater company. She moved on to work as a video editor for a local TV network and then became a TV producer for MTV Philippines. Her interest in radio led her to become a producer for U92’s The Dollhouse and Morning Would. Currently, she is active with IndiEvents, an events production and marketing company whose past projects include digital marketing for the Manila concerts of Justin Bieber and Maroon 5. It has always been her dream to publish a book, and this book that you hold is concrete proof that dreams can come true.
