Commissioned by Nike, 30th Anniversary Air Max 1 OG.
The Air Max 1 OG visual is a limited edition artwork designed by Manila born / Dubai based artist Rollan Rodriguez a.k.a Dogboy, Creative Director at Ape. It is a representation of his work retrospective of his style that has been collected throughout the years manifested on an Air Max 1 OG key visual.
Since most of his work are mostly done in an organic collage form, he transforms objects into iconography and symbolism thus becoming point of subjects of the art piece.
The event was launched at Concepts store, City Walk, Dubai. 03.11.17
Photography: Naim Chidiac
CATEGORY: ILLUSTRATION
Series of key visual development for the Abu Dhabi Rally Cross (WRX) campaign that encapsulates the excitement and elements that revolve around the event. To do that, we recommended a visual approach that shows both straight forward car racing and the other exciting elements that add to the event. Commissioned by Yas Marina Abu Dhabi.
Design and Art direction: Rollan Rodriguez
Illustration: Oliver Santiago
A self-initiated project continuing the hand-painting discipline from our previous exhibit, Byahe. "Everything Will Be Ok" is juxtaposition of type, a playful rendition of saying OK in visual form. When hardtimes are looming, this piece is a guiding mantra.
Prints will be available soon.
Bread and Butter. A framed art collage series commissioned by Sound Restaurant and Cafe, Dubai. “Bread and Butter.” a series of collaged artworks, Art directed by Rollan Rodriguez and Illustrated by Oliver Santiago to compliment Sound’s natural concrete minimalist restaurant aesthetic. Bread and Butter is a remix of various analogue and digital technique, printed digitally on high resolution stock on limited quantities.
The exhibit supports the idea that restaurant welcomes up and coming artists to its venue by giving space to exhibit their works.
Art Direction: Ape Creative
Illustration: Oliver Santiago
CATEGORY: ILLUSTRATION
Barako Grill Identity Design and Mural project.
Barako, a Filipino word for fearless, macho, manly. The icon is based from a Tamaraw, a water buffalo indigenous in the Philippines. Characterized by its strength.
Located in the heart of Umm Al Quwain. Barako Grill is set to make waves in the Filipino dining experience in the UAE. A place to satisfy your Filipino food craving and to chill out with your family and friends. Barako Grill is the perfect place to go. Its menu fits right into any occasion and budget. It serves the best Filipino favorites, grilled specialties, an array of alcoholic & non-alcoholic beverages.
CATEGORY: BRANDING
Commissioned by Majid Al Futtaim Fashion for their new hip brand THAT Concept Store.
An interactive digital mural hoarding to announce their launch in Mall of the Emirates, Dubai. The style idea of the illustration comes from the idea that it this mural will be used as a projection base, using Augmented Reality tech called Lightform, wherein animation will be passing thru all the white spots of the artwork. Resulting in a full interactive experience.
Art Direction/Illustration: Rollan Rodriguez
Illustration: Oliver Santiago
CATEGORY: ILLUSTRATION
The past few weeks, we’ve been experimenting on how to create using discarded and found objects. The “work outside the canvass” approach. Without no direction nor plan to follow, the process is almost instantaneous and trance-like. There is soft whisper coming out of those juxtaposed/worn out Images on how is it going to be placed and assembled.
KONTRACOVID
Kontracovid (anti-Covid19) series of Corona Virus inspired explorations that hope to shed light realization and inspiration in difficult times.
CATEGORY: IlLLUSTRATION
Assembly 02
Trying to find meaning in the time of lockdown.
Few months ago, we’ve been thinking about an alibi to hang around with fellow creatives around town. Surprisingly, we normally buy coffee beans to our neighboring coffee shop Nightjar Coffee in Alserkal Avenue, we saw some stickers populating a pole around the counter. Apparently, we have good amount of stash of stickers lying around the studio, an idea came up. a sticker-based event. stuck:dxb was conceived. We approached the cafe and agreed to have their shop as a venue. So, we activated and made it an official event/gathering
stuck:dxb was the first ever official sticker exchange and meet-up in Dubai. The event mechanics were simple: bring your stickers, trade, and enjoy the coffee. The event was the perfect way to meet like-minded individuals over a cup of coffee.
Venue: Nightjar Coffee and Roasters
Mixes: The Flipside and Tariq Omar
Photography and Videography: Vizfolk Media
Commissioned by The Partnership Group, Dubai for Al Ain Water. Colours of The World: A Celebration of Diversity.
We were asked to develop seven separate illustrations depicting the cultural richness of the seven continents: Middle East, Europe, Asia, South America, North America and Australia.
It celebrates the beauty of the UAE lies in the diversity of it’s people and this diversity.
Winter season campaign for Al Qasba, Sharjah. The visuals were inspired by Al Qasba’s brand colors as well as the brand iconography that makes use of the silhouettes of people interacting with each other, doing a range of activities at Al Qasba.
‘A Place Just For You’ invites people to the idea that Al Qasba is a place that anybody can come to experience more of culture, more of dining, and more of entertainment.
A series of artwork commissioned for Healthpoint Hospital ENT clinic. The brief was to move away from conventional medical illustration but gravitating into a more stylish approach but still keeping intact its scientific aspect.
‘Byahe’ is an exhibition and film showing by design studio Ape Creative. It explores the culture and the craft of hand painted lettering on signage. The core inspiration for ‘Byahe’ arose out of an interest in hand painted signage iconically found on vehicles in the Philippines. ‘Byahe’ will explore how people connect through their stories of their travels and experiences using elements of typography & design on signage exemplified in collaborative effort of the designers of Ape Creative. The exhibition is a celebration of the slowly dying craft of hand painted signage - that often overlooked and or ignored.
STREETCON (Street Art Connection) is an Urban Art Jam organized by Al Ghurair Centre that spans from the 23rd of April to the 2nd of May 2015. It is one of Al Ghurair Centre’s signature events that occurs annually and celebrates art, music and culture.
Al Ghurair Centre aims to energize public spaces in order to make art accessible to the community. As for the artists, it will allow both local and international artists to showcase their talent and spark a conversation between them and the audience to interact and learn from. This event aspires to transform Al Ghurair Centre into a pinnacle zone in Dubai for public art that rejuvenates the streetscapes around the mall for both tourists and locals to enjoy.
STREETCON is the perfect opportunity to see more than 20 local and international artists getting involved on varied art activities to promote Urban Art in a public domain.
event videography and photography: madgenius.me
A branding project for Cultination.
Cultination is a non-for-profit, member driven organization that aims to empower both the farmers and the local communities to support and preserve artisanal agriculture, making it the way of the future rather than a quaint relic of the past.
CATEGORY: BRANDING
Commissioned by Capsule Arts, The Rove Downtown project is one of the more exhilarating and challenging tasks we've had the opportunity to work on.
The design approach was to have the mind of a street artist and the skill of a graphic designer. As a result, the product is both eclectic and relevant to its local flavouring.
Immense research went into the core of this project's creative process, immersing designers into creating products that are culturally sensitive to its execution.
This project is subdivided into smaller tasks: traditional stenciling, digital art, and packaging design.
Typography project for FN Design's AMOR Magazine Issue No. 28: State of Play.
In the spirit of randomness, each designer were given a task to pick a subject on their own. The only brief there is: PLAY. A week before the submission, here are the outcome.
Identity design for Maison H. House of prêt-à-porter and Couture, Handmade in Dubai, UAE. Maison H was established by fashion Designer/ creative director Harshman Singh.
CATEGORY: BRANDING
La Hacienda is a desert retreat in the Arizona hillside of Fountain Hills. Inspired by the Spanish-colonial spirit and architecture, La Hacienda is an exclusive neighborhood that is both inspiring and nurturing.
To amplify that spirit, we designed an identity that is modern looking and show its distinct architectural feature. The palette of the sun kissed terra-cotta Arizona desert.
Borrowing the craft of the early 1900 stamp style and minimize it into simple workable geometry. We took two iconic elements found on the La Hacienda environment; the Saguaro (cactus) the Arizona native plant and the La Hacienda arch porch, making it a recognizable graphic representation of the identity.
CATEGORY: BRANDING
Poster designed for Narcy's Rise, a part of his new LP World War Free Npw. The idea of the visual is to communicate it's mini film/music video on one single framed poster.
Commissioned by TBWA for TwoFou54.
A rebranding exercise for Monarqi.
Monarqi is a company with more than 160 employees from 30 different nationalities working in Oil & Gas, Fine Dining, Retail, and Distribution - in a very dynamic, challenging and exciting region.
CATEGORY: BRANDING
Resley Louise is a handmade jeweller based in Texas, who specializes in creating unique pieces of jewellery for every client. Resley came to us looking to create a solid logo & brand that is inspired by her love of nature, simplicity, handcrafted objects, geometric shapes, gemstones, and the colour rose gold.
CATEGORY: BRANDING
In developing the logo & branding, we took to keeping things handmade and crafted the logo by hand to create a wordmark that is clean, simple and chic. Elements in nature have inspired the brand right from the photography down to the colour palette and organic flow & form of the wordmark.
Creativity is versatile and ever changing. Geraad is a brand that understands and embodies that.
CATEGORY: BRANDING
An branding and identity design for the ArtMAp.
The ArtMap is a publication detailing a specified calendar of events and exhibitions in the arts and culture scene in the UAE and Doha, Qatar. This cultural guide features up to date maps of the developing landscapes of the featured countries, navigating its reader to all relevant arts locations, including those hard to find spaces.
CATEGORY: BRANDING
A play with texture and pattern slapped on the iconic Darth Vader helmet. It looks like a fashion designer / star wars mood board.
Limited posters produced for the Middle East Film and Comic Convention in Dubai, 2014.
"Summer Surprises"
Fibreglass and Plastic Resin
136cm (H) x 165cm (W) 165 (Diameter)
Part of Wasta: Brownmonkeys' 2nd Group Exhibit (2015)
“Sneaker Habit” A1, mixed media, digital print on paper. A SoleDXB entry for the print exhibit. Inspired while watching History Channel’s series The Seven Deadly Sin.
What if Superman suddenly landed in the Middle East? What would he do? With a hubbly bubbly at hand, we can call him Superhabibi. Even superheroes chillax.
A poster for the Middle East Film and Comic Convention in Dubai, UAE. 2014
Photography: Mark Ganzon (markganzon.com)
Model: Mona Shani
An entry for AMOR Magazine (a magazine of randon). The Gadaffi Issue (Issue 05). We came up with G-Man, the equation is Sex + Power + Corruption + Politics + Violence = The G-Man
An illustration piece for Robotandspark’s limited edition, collectible art figure – the ESC-produced Robot VC3′s! It’s an honor to participate and got the chance to design a postcard illustration for Vespula (the yellow robot, last image). Robert Gibbs, the creator of the VC3′shas invited artists to interpret VC3 in his own unique way.
Cliche + Traffic presents IN A BOX ?
A showcase of 30 odd limited edition MDF boxes. Featuring : {ths} / Aditya / Alia / Altamash / Amrit / Archan / Arezu / Arisu / Avi / Bastard Project / Bhavya / Brownmonkeys: Suavecito, Artlifeflip, Pinkblot, Prettymonkey, Muhaisnah 4, Blacksheep, Dozign and Dogboy / Cima / Daniel / Dhanya / Diya / Elmaee / James /Lazzuri / Lina / Neena / Noel / Payal / Rami / Renata / Rita / Rob / Sangeeta / Sarah / Shaxeb / Vivek /
A character based poster for retail in Middle East Film and Comic Convention in Dubai, UAE. 2015.
"Resemblance" is a self initiated project that celebrates one of the most admirable human feature, the face. This project aims to collect a variety of personalities, sensibilities, frailties, encapsulated emotions trough hand drawn digital media.
