http://happygaraje.com Illustration, Web Design, Graphic Design and Photography Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:40:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://happygaraje.com/kriesi-at/ http://happygaraje.com/kriesi-at/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:00:25 +0000 Moko http://www.kriesi.at/themes/propulsion/?p=296 http://happygaraje.com/kriesi-at/feed/ 0 http://happygaraje.com/the-house-that-dreams-built/ http://happygaraje.com/the-house-that-dreams-built/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:22:25 +0000 Mark http://happygaraje.com/?p=5107

This used to be our work area and in its place we put together the baby's room. A friend of ours gifted us with an awesome wooden crib.


Teddies are good because they're furry and friendly.

Meanwhile, we moved our workstations into the other half of our place. This is like command centre right here.


Jo designed this drawing counter with a lot of drawers (like the old library card cabinets). The carpenter and the furniture painter had a bit of a squabble while they were putting this together.  The drawers couldn't be interchanged because they would fit only in the holes where they were cut off from so the carpenter numbered each drawer in order. The painter had not known this and sprayed over all the drawers, thus erasing the numbers. They spent about two hours figuring out which drawer fit into where. There were heated words exchanged and I told them it didn't matter if they didn't fit perfectly. But apparently carpenters and furniture painters go crazy over gaping drawers. In the end, after we had all figured out which went into where, we went out and bought hot pandesal and soda. Hot pandesal and soda for the win.

Those are a lot of drawers and each one is filled with all the small things.

Vintage Penguin book covers mounted on the wall.


A lot of the shelves are still bare. We have plans for them but haven't had the time yet.


Some of the things here we found in flea markets, from travels and our basement. :-P





Ninjas guard the trophy shelf.

We found these cages in the bird market of Hong Kong. Jo painted them bronze.


We've accumulated so many books and toys over the years and it's quite a nice feeling to see them all stacked up.



A lot of decisions have been made using the Magic 8 ball.




Not a very good chess player but I like playing the game.

Yeah, that's the King out before everyone else. Told you.

When we first started we had no money to rent out an office. Jo's dad offered to let us use the garage to start things off and follow our dreams. In the last four years we've had our share of working all-nighters, easy days of hanging out with books and music and heading out with our backpacks to see the world. Some of our greatest adventures began right here.

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We got these postcards from Basheer in Singapore. A set of book cover illustrations from Penguin books. It would be a dream come true to work for Penguin someday. *Hello Universe*


We glued several of them on wood and mounted them on the wall in our mini-library.






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The studio's put together. Four walls and a roof. Now for the grueling task of organizing everything, including all the books we've accumulated over the past few years.]]> http://happygaraje.com/a-long-way-down/feed/ 0 http://happygaraje.com/hello-summer/ http://happygaraje.com/hello-summer/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:11:01 +0000 Mark http://happygaraje.com/?p=5032
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In the past several months we have been doing some design work for the renowned luxury brand Raffles. The original Raffles hotel in Singapore is over 100 years old, first opening its doors in 1887!  

Charlie Chaplain, Pablo Neruda, Ava Gardner and Rudyard Kipling have all, at one point, stayed at the Raffles. It is also where the famed drink Singapore Sling was invented.  

If you google "raffles doorman" you'll find thousands of photos of the current doorman from the original Raffles hotel. That's because some say that he is the most photographed person in Singapore.  
 
The symbol on the logo was designed by Peter Horridge and depicts a drawing of the Traveler's Palm. The Traveler's palm can be found in Africa, particularly Madagascar, and whose leaves are always said to rest in an east to west direction, thus serving as an informal compass. The tree also stores water and can come in handy to long-distance walkers :-p  

Upon checking into any Raffles hotel or resort, guests are greeted by staff who each wears a Traveler's Palm pin, to signify that they have found their way home. Raffles destinations include Beijing, Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Makati, Seychelles, Makkah, Tianjin, Paris and Singapore.  

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We've been really fortunate to have had the chance to work with such a storied brand. The Happy Garaje design team has been creating ads and marketing collateral for Raffles Residences Makati and Raffles Estates Praslin. ]]> http://happygaraje.com/rafflesluxuryhotels/feed/ 0 http://happygaraje.com/renovating/ http://happygaraje.com/renovating/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:10:14 +0000 Mark http://happygaraje.com/?p=4849 ]]> http://happygaraje.com/renovating/feed/ 0