HANA DUL SET, COLLABORATE! 🤝
Our work for Creative Futures and our upcoming K-pop talk.
A K-POP TALK BY AND A HALF!! 🥴 💣 🥴
Okay. Before COVID, back when we had our old office, we’d usually scream and dance to K-pop in the afternoon (at 6:00 p.m. KST to be precise). And more often, we’d invite friends to scream and dance with us. For better or for worse, K-pop has become a huge part of our personality as a studio. But ever since we’ve had to let go of our office and take our face-to-face interactions to Zoom, you can only imagine just how much pent-up energy we’ve stored up since then.
Which is why! We’re extremely nervous and excited to invite all of you to Steps to a Comeback, And A Half’s Warm Up class in collaboration with Fifth Wall Fest, the country’s premier dance film festival. Here’s the official class description:
Hana dul set, COLLABORATE! And A Half-K imnida! Why do they call it a comeback? What are they coming back from? And A Half, an independent branding and design studio, breaks down the K-pop comeback. We will explore its intersections with performance, production, experience, and product design. A highly interactive class, open to seasoned K-pop fans and the K-pop curious.
All classes will be held on Zoom and are set in the GMT+8 Timezone. The registration fee is P250! Come in your best K-pop outfit.
Our video for Create Philippines 💖
About a month ago, Jonty Cruz and Cong. Toff de Venecia asked us to put together a video for CITEM's Creative Futures 2021 event, a 2-day online conference on the current state of the creative economy and the future of the industry.
They wanted to showcase the value and potential of the Filipino creative industry and to build support for the Creative Industries Act, an enabling policy and governance framework that helps develop our creative industries so that they can be viable and sustainable career choices and to help us become more globally competitive.
“What the Bill promises is for a National Creative Industries Development Plan to be put in place that will 1) Help creative industries survive the current crisis; 2) Define and incentivize high potential creative industries; 3) Promote policies both nationally and at a local community level that help raise our capabilities as a world class Creative Nation,”
- Paolo Mercado, President of the Creative Council of the Philippines Adobomagazine
In collaboration with Toff's team and our Sound Design partner (King Puentispina), we drafted a storyboard which we then illustrated, animated, and edited.
You can als0 access the whole event here!
Final remarks! ✍
Last June 27, our head of R&D Petra facilitated a class over at Nudefloor! Petra says she would like to thank everyone who attended for a very engaged and lively discussion. 👼
Trixia recommends the new Avatar: Braving The Elements podcast, featuring the voice actors of Zuko and Korra. They break down every episode of Avatar and the whole process of running the show.
Have you seen THE CHAINSAWMAN TRAILER?!
Tim recently discovered visual artist John de Cesare, whose work he says looks like “ancient data visualization.” He’s known for visually interpreting work of masters like Bach.
Toni recommends this 2009 GQ essay by acclaimed writer Michael Paterniti called “Never Forget: Life After the Khmer Rouge Genocide.” Bring tissue and steel yourself.
Studio friends Pool Records are launching Museo, a multi-sensory exhibition at Pinto Art Gallery in line with the release of Curtismith’s new album. Register through Pinto!
That is it for us! Thank you for always reading through, and we hope you’re doing well wherever you are.
And A Half