THE ART OF WEBTOON-MAKING Korean illustrator Na Seung Hoon works on a webtoon, a serialized digital comic that comes from South Korea Basic Practices: *Storytelling through Drawing*, an intensive workshop facilitated by globally-renowned Korean illustrator Na Seung Hoon, guided young Filipino...
In his acceptance speech at the Nobel Prize banquet in 1954, which the American ambassador to Sweden at the time read in his behalf, Ernest Hemingway wrote, “Writing at best is a lonely life.” It’s ironic that in order to connect with the world, a writer has to be alone through torturous...
Promoting innovation and Filipino excellence, Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda has expressed her commitment to nurturing local creativity during the 2nd Philippine Creative Industries Summit hosted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The Summit, according to Legarda, serves as...
What’s your branding? That is a question brands and individuals face today if they want to make it big in their respective industries. The internet may have helped bring everyone closer, but it also opened an arena where calling everyone’s attention is not as easy as it sounds. Today’s...
The Philippine Creatives Industry Development Act lapsed into law last July 27, and is now known as Republic Act (RA) 11904. House Special Committee on Creative Industry And Performing Arts chairman and Pangasinan Rep. De Venecia (Photo from House of Representatives Media/MANILA BULLETIN) “This...
#MINDANAO John Tria ILIGAN CITY — Walking along the halls of a major shopping mall in this northern Mindanao city, I see a large art exhibit. What impressed me was that near the exhibit were restaurants that serve wonderful native food and a music store that offers a rather substantial...
A House bill (HB) seeking to protect the creative industry and at the same time bolster the economic recovery of the Philippines has hurdled the committee level. Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (Facebook) Approved by the House Committee on Trade and Industry in a public hearing Tuesday, Feb....
A group of four congressmen are pursuing the institutionalization of a system of specialized high schools across the country focused on honing the youth's artistic skills and talents. (Andres Perez/ Unsplash) Davao City 1st district Rep. Paolo Duterte, Benguet lone district Rep. Eric Yap, and...
Exciting times ahead for the Italian luxury house Following the underwhelming response to the latest fall 2023 men’s collection of Gucci, the collection which will “be judged more for what it wasn’t than what it was,” as per Vogue . Things are looking up for the house as its parent company...
The proposed expansion of the non-essential goods tax, which would see luxury good items taxed more, would generate st least P12.4 billion in annual revenue that could be funneled into supporting the local creative industry, Albay 2nd District Joey Salceda said on Wednesday, Jan. 18. Albay 2nd...
A measure aiming to grant cash incentives plus other non-monetary benefits to filmmakers, literary writers and performing artists who have won formal international acclaim has moved forward in the House of Representatives. (Mari Gimenez/ Unsplash) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte, a...
Trade and Industry Secretary Alfredo E. Pascual has signed the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) No. 11904, otherwise known as the Philippine Creative Industries Development Act (PCIDA), boosting the domestic creative industries’ development to achieve its full...
