Welcome to Half Pages
Half Pages is the semi-regular newsletter of And A Half, an independent design studio based in the Philippines. We’ve decided to migrate our studio newsletter to Substack, where we publish studio and portfolio updates and the occasional navel-gazing thoughts about design or design-driven projects.
The big, lofty goal has always been to find another way to do design in a country like the Philippines where design and designers are often unheard of or undervalued. We dream of a day where design can be integrated across all other disciplines that aren’t just advertising or marketing. Design can play a role in the way we perceive spaces, policies, and technology.
Will we ever get there? Seems difficult and even bleak, but we sure hope so, even if the change we want may never materialize from this studio. But we hope to keep the discussion alive with you and our communities. In a pan de mie, we can only rely on each other.
If you’ve reached this far and if these thoughts interest you, feel free to subscribe to our newsletter. We’re not always this serious, from time to time we might just drop everything and talk about k-pop. We contain multitudes! Hope everything is beautiful where you are.
