CARINA SAMANTHA SANTOSPORTfOlIO Of SeleCTed wORkS

2006-2011

The following DOCUMENT contains selected works by CARINA SAMANTHA SANTOS created between the years 2006-2011, comprising a more or less accurate representation of her range and capacity as a designer & visual artist.

She makes a lot of other things in her spare time, too. Mostly, though, she likes to read, watch television, and look up things on the Internet.

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CARINA SAMANTHA SANTOSManila, PhiliPPines • httP://nothingsPaces.coMyankee@nothingsPaces.coM • (63) 917 842 8693

Art and literature have been very big parts of my life, with my interest in both starting from childhood. I grew up in an artistic household, and I grew up with a lot of books. I see design as the bridge that brings them together.

My eye is trained towards beauty, and I see it in a lot of things. Most of my work reflects daily inspirations, the pieces that I make are often directly rooted from personal experiences, translated and edited to make it more relatable to other people. It’s personal, but I try to make it work in the context of other people’s experiences.

I am influenced by a lot of artists, authors and designers, a lot of people, a lot of music, and I feel that this varied mix of inspirations comes across my work. I love popular culture and history. I love art, television, film, and literature. I try to experiment with a lot of media and I like bringing them together.

I am wildly curious about the world and our connections as people who live in it. My art, my design, and my writing try to communicate my personhood to others, to be able to connect with them.

I try to touch people with humor and feeling, and I try to do this with the things that I make with my hands.

ARTISTSTATEMENT

PhotogRaPh: lUis santos

SKILLS

INTERESTS

PROFILE

eDUcation

selecteD co-cURRicUlaR actiVities

WORK-RELATED EXPERIENCE

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WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

September 29, 1988 Filipino

BFA Information Design, 2006-2010, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

Ateneo Musicians’ Pool, Ateneo de Manila University Member, Documentation & Publications Department, 2006-2007 Associate Officer, Documentation & Publications Department, 2007-2008 Head, Documentation & Publications Department, 2008-2009 Administrative Vice President, 2009-2010

APART Visual Arts Collective, Ateneo de Manila University Member, 2007-2010

Heights: Official Literary Publication, Ateneo de Manila University Member, Design Staff 2007-2010 Member, English Staff 2008-2010

Intern, Miss Clavel Magazine (July-September 2008)Graphic Artist, The Bead Shop, Vamika Inc. (May 2009-August 2010)Graphic Artist, Greater Good (March 2010-present)Editorial Assistant, Mabuhay Magazine, Eastgate Publishing, Corp. (May-June 2010)Web and Graphic Designer, Lomographic Society International (August 2010-January 2011)

Graphic Design, Loyola Schools Award for the Arts, Ateneo de Manila University, 2010

Twelve By Nine, West Gallery (January 8-29, 2009)Redefine, invited for a FA 168.5 final, Ateneo de Manila University (October 15-29, 2009)Collage, West Gallery (October 14-November 6, 2010)12x9, West Gallery (December 8-31, 2010)

Fellow (Fiction), 14th Annual Heights Writers’ Workshop Ateneo de Manila University (September 12-14, 2008)

Fluent in English and Filipino, knowledge of Basic French. Proficient in iWork ’09, iMovie, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Quark Xpress, HTML, CSS, WordPress. Working knowledge of basic book binding techniques. Skilled in film and digital photography, illustration, and watercolor and oil painting.

Popular culture, design, literature, history, television, media studies, photography, films, music, art, art history, books and book design, publishing.

STUDENT WORK

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life planlayout exercise, 2008

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PROJECT DETAILS:• layoUt• collages (scanneD oBjects & self-PoRtRaits)• coPy (oRiginal teXt & collection of qUotes)

Life Plan is an exercise for a Typography Class in Junior year, with the brief of creating a series of visual collages depicting the year, five years, and so on, after the student’s graduation. Using a series of pre-selected typefaces, the student was expected to create a specific narrative of his imagined future. The student was also given layout and design restrictions (e.g. images must be square and placed 1/2” from the top and side margins, type color) and was expected to work within those restrictions.

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PROJECT DETAILS:• collage• coMPUteR enhanceMent

(left: Back coVeR)

Heights is a Ateneo de Manila University’s official literary publication. This issue features the theme of guilty pleasures.

The book cover features a handmade collage, with minimal digital editing. It was printed in the Philippines by LSA Printing Press, Inc.

The Heights: Guilty Pleasures issue (Vol. LVI No. 3) was widely released in Ateneo de Manila University in 2009.

heights: guilty pleasurescover design, 2009

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PROJECT DETAILS:• cReatiVe DiRection• eDitoR-in-chief (with PETRA Magno)

PhotogRaPhy, aRtwoRk, anDfeatURes aRe sUBMitteD By VaRioUs MeMBeRs of the oRganization

TUBE is the (mostly) annual ‘zine created by the Ateneo Musicians’ Pool, an accredited music organization of Ateneo de Manila University. It features the collected written and visual works of the organization’s members (mainly under the Documentation and Publications department).

TUBE was published with a limited run of 150 copies, launched along with the organization’s official CD, Amplitunes.

tube: vol. iv, issue 1zine, 2008

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CLIENT WORK

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PROJECT DETAILS:• tyPogRaPhy• layoUt (lookBook)• collateRal (tags, inVites, PosteRs)

PhotogRaPhy By cholo Dela Vega

Young Folk, Silly Folk is a collaboration between Greater Good Apparel and Style Break, two local clothing lines run by young entrepreneurs. This collection aims to use fashion as a vehicle to promote social awareness about the environment and animal rights, targeting young people and urging them to make a difference.

Proceeds from this collection will go to PAWS (Philippine Animal Welfare Society).

Project involved creating the collection’s main identity and putting together their lookbook and other collaterals.

young folk, silly folkbranding & identity, 2011

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PROJECT DETAILS:• PhotogRaPhy• tyPogRaPhy• layoUt

collaBoRation with PaUlina oRtega (illUstRation & layoUt)

(left: fRont coVeR)

Don’t Forget, Clementine is a Manila-based post-rock band formed by Marvin Sayson, Paolo Owyong, Enzo Cabayan, Argee Guerrero, Miguel de Quiros, Mike Oreta and Mark Alcantara.

Project was commissioned for their first EP, Grace, And Dragging Her Wings, released in 2009.

Photography taken in San Diego, CA, San Francisco, CA, Beijing, China, New York, NY, and Manila, Philippines.

don’t forget, clementinealbum art & packaging, 2008

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PROJECT DETAILS:• tyPogRaPhy• layoUt

collaBoRation with gaBBy canteRo (PhotogRaPhy)

Daylight Saturday was a monthly event organized by photographer Gabby Cantero, aiming to bring friends together for an afternoon of laid-back shooting and hanging out, breaking away from the usual portrait set-up in the studios.

These posters were created to promote the events to the public.

daylight saturdayposters, 2010

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PROJECT DETAILS:• tyPogRaPhy• layoUt• Photo ManiPUlation

collaBoRation with gaBBy canteRo (PhotogRaPhy) & kRis cagUiat(illUstRation)

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PROJECT DETAILS:• tyPogRaPhy

Commissioned work for The Bead Shop, for their Valentines Day 2010 collection.

love is a battlefieldtype work, 2010

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PROJECT DETAILS:• tyPogRaPhy• illUstRation• layoUt• coDing (htMl/css)

These pieces are a selection of web work done for Lomography.com. The job entailed designing web banners for their site (promoting products, contests, and site features), and designing and coding newsletters to be propagated by email to the Lomography community.

lomography.comvarious web projects, 2011

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PERSONAL PROJECTS

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barajacollage series, 11/52, 2006

PROJECT DETAILS:• collage

Baraja is a series of fifty-two collages made on a deck of playing cards, created between 14 November and 19 December 2006.

Upon completion, the cards were sent all over the world in lieu of Christmas cards.

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book piecesassemblages, 2010

PROJECT DETAILS:• asseMBlage

Book Pieces are assemblages made from deconstructed materials (e.g. hardbound books, wooden blocks, etc) that were created as part of a group exhibit called 12x9, the only restriction of which was the size of each piece (12 inches by 9 inches).

This is an ongoing series, with the original two not pictured.

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after ‘boxer’collage series, 2008

PROJECT DETAILS:• collage

After Boxer is a series of collages inspired by the music of Boxer, the fourth studio album released by Brooklyn-based band, The National.

It is an exercise, seeking to explore the relationship between the different forms of art, and aims to provide a visual expression of the thematic and musical content of the album, as taken on a personal level of the listener and fan.

This series is a work in progress.

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sleeping fawnspainting, 2010

PROJECT DETAILS:• oil Painting

(left: oRiginal iMage)

Sleeping Fawns is a first attempt at oil painting. After seeing a photograph of stillborn fawns over the Internet, I decided to try my hand at oil painting.

In the middle of the process, I saw the finale of the television series, Work of Art, and was surprised when one of the finalists, Peregrine Honig, turned out to be the original artist of the photograph I copied this off of.

The painting is 3 feet x 3 feet and was rendered using a scaled grid, pencil (illustration), and oil.

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about the bees & alphabetphotography book, 2011

PROJECT DETAILS:• layoUt• PhotogRaPhy• tyPogRaPhy

About the Bees & Alphabet is a photographic account of a fictional band on tour, created after the news of The White Stripes’ break-up. As an homage to the work of Autumn de Wilde (Elliott Smith, Under Great White Northern Lights), Explosions in the Sky (tour photos on http://explosionsinthesky.com), and Nicholas Zinner (I Hope You Are All Happy Now), About the Bees & Alphabet is an exercise in recreating the same on-the-road feel of the photos, creating layouts that try to communicate ideas and moods using only heavy visuals and sparse text.

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the sketchbook projectsketchbook, 2011

PROJECT DETAILS:• collage

The Sketchbook Project is a worldwide project spearheaded by Art House Co-op (Brooklyn, NY) that challenges participants to fill up a Moleskine journal with sketches that pertain to a certain theme. They then organize touring exhibits that showcase the journals all over the United States.

Works done for this journal were made loosely based on the theme things that changed other things and were mostly done overnight, so as to beat the deadline. It was an interesting exercise of resourcefulness, while attempting to make each spread look different from one another.

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