• Music: Placebo - Hang On to Your IQ

I stopped publicly accepting design projects about a year ago. I was tired of designing sites for shops that provided the exact same product to the exact same audience in the exact same community. And I was absolutely sick of working with people who acted like they owned my soul. “Retired” is what I called myself. I still designed for select people, though – family, friends, and really, really nice previous clients.

A few dozen websites and business card templates later, I realized that I haven’t really retired. I just went underground. Here are mock-ups of some of the stuff I’ve worked on since.

I’m working on two more sites as I type, so it doesn’t look like I’m gonna retire for real anytime soon. I’m considering publicly accepting design projects again, as it seems like a significant number of people want me back. It’s gone to the point where my previous clients are getting messages from various people on how I can be stalked/ contacted.

Hopefully I’ll be able to handle that level of stress again. For now I’m thinking of how I can set limits to who can avail of my services. Without sounding cocky.

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Gawad Kalinga Walang Iwanan (No Leaving Behind) was held at the RFM Gymnasium. Donations here will be sent to evacuation centers for the victims of Ondoy (and the currently looming Pepeng). We were pleased to see plenty of donations and a lot of volunteers. But considering the damage Ondoy caused, there’s more work to be done and more help needed.

Our family donated 500 pieces of bread to this center (many thanks to Tita Agnes for baking the bread! They were huge, and the boxes were heavy, but that’s exactly how we wanted it!). My sister and I delivered our donations, and we also did some volunteer work. We were in charge of quality assurance; we checked all of the bags to see if they were complete and ready to be handed out to each family in various evacuation centers. We made sure that each bag had rice or pasta, canned meat, water, basic toiletries, and a treat (e.g. muffin, biscuit, etc.).

To everyone who supported any cause to help the victims of Ondoy, this one or another, your help will go a long, long way. If you want to help out but haven’t yet, I’ve got some info on how to help out here.

Thank you all so much.

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