#froshies

If you guys know, my friends and I had a business when we were only 2nd year HS students. Amazing right? I, myself, can’t believe it somehow that we managed to handle such task. Despite of school stuff, we were able to run it until a tragedy happened.. so to cut the story short: After releasing our first collection of ballers, the shop was closed.

While eating my lunch earlier, my father handed me a business card. It’s owned by a teenager, who runs a small business somewhere in Mandaluyong City if I’m not mistaken. He said I could collaborate with him and see if things are going to work. So, I went to his site and found out he’s more into printing rather than making his own designs (which I thought he was). Hence, I was a little bit disappointed. Then something popped out of my mind. The dream of having my own design studio. The dream I’ve been longing since the day I first attended Graphika Manila. And I thought, what kind of design studio do I really want? Is it going to focus on web design? Print? Logo/Branding? Advertising? Illustrating? I never had a clear vision of what I really wanted to do in the future. All I know was that I love designing and illustrating. Again, something popped out of my mind. My answer on the question asked at our yearbook. Since I’m one of the staff, I looked for it.

Question: “How do you see yourself 10 years from now?” Guess what, it answered the question that has been bugging me. Here’s what I said:

Looking in the future, I see myself as a creative director of a design studio I run that makes simple and thoughtful stuff for the web & beyond.

Tada! I wanna be a creative director of my own design studio. But, of course, in order to have one, I should have a set of team. A team which consists of 3-5 people who have the same passion as mine and whose skills and talents could contribute a lot in bringing ourselves into another level! *winks* 

As far as my program is concerned, I think it’s a good way for me to learn about the ‘advertising’ and 'marketing’ side of the creative industry. Although I’m going to know them soon, I guess it would be a lot better if I know the tasks my 'design studio’ would do first, such as coding the websites (primarily HTML5 and other programming languages), doing a full branding of companies, etc. With that being said, sometimes I feel that I should have taken MMA in DLS-CSB instead of ADV in DLSU (but I still love la salle, animo!) or ID in ADMU (although I wasn’t able to take the exam) But!!! Sir Dan Matutina told us, during the Behance Portfolio Reviews, that we shouldn’t stop dreaming of what we actually want to achieve in life. Whatever program we take in college or job we go to afterwards, it’s always up to us if we’re going to pursue our primary dream. He even had a tip for me, that I should take Advertising since I will know a lot more in the creative industry when 'reality strikes’. Aside from him, I have also met a lot of people that inspired me to pursue Advertising as my program.

So guys, if you’re kind of interested in having your own design studio as well, maybe we should talk and let’s see if there’s a good future ahead of us? Right? Hello there MMA, ADV froshies! Oh I forgot ID freshies (tour me at admu pls hehe) Hope I could meet all of you!! :-)