Inksurge
www.inksurge.com
Designers, Artists | Manila, Philippines
Could you tell us a little Inksurge?
Inksurge is a team who is highly stimulated by their passion in creating visual arts as a way to communicate and contribute. We often suspend ourselves in our design imagination in order to explore and transform ideas and thinking with an eclectic solution. We aim to help promote your thing with style. We are passionate towards what we do and we hope to inspire the others in return.
How would you describe your style?
Inksurge – Freshly low-fi brewed junkie fused with espresso doodles and scribbles.
What are you doing now? Where do you work?
Inksurge – We are working on some print designs for magazines and some shirt designs from clients abroad for Inksurge, doing massive doodling and scribbling combining them into one big masterpiece. Also taking part on print exhibits abroad. Joyce is the senior creative for 25by8.com while Rex is a design associate for the same company.
When did you start with graphic design?
Rex – I started out since i was a kid, drawing on big drawing books and coloring newspaper comics, then started the real deal with computers during ’96.
Joyce – Graphic design about 3 yrs ago.
How many hours/day do you spend on your computer?
Rex – 12 hours a day .
Joyce – usually more than 10 hours .
What programs do you use to create your websites?
Inksurge – Macromedia Flash, Adobe Ilustrator and Photoshop
Do you prefer technologically advanced sites or sites with simple but good design?
Rex – I really prefer sites with simple and good designs. It really depends on how the technology is applied to the website, sometimes the execution was too over that the essence of the site was neglected.
Joyce – no preference really over the two, for me i think its still the content/concept of the whole site regardless of how you use it…
Do you have any hobbies outside of digital art and computing?
Rex – I love just hanging out to coffee shops and go people watching. Also reading books and listening to good music, watching movies while eating tons of popcorns.
Joyce – likewise to rex except for the popcorns haha!
What is your favorite food?
Rex – Junkfoods such as nachos, popcorns and chips. Pasta and lots of pizzas, Sushi’s and my mom’s good ‘ol roastbeef with mushrooms.
Joyce – Japanese fooooooodddddd.
What kind of music do you like?
Rex – Incubus, Radiohead, experimental muzik, jazz.
Joyce – Indie rock, chill out, experimental, blue note jazz alteranntive.
What are your plans for the future?
Rex – to see my designs in billboards and to create my own mansion near the beach. also wanted to travel!
Joyce – head my own design company and travel around the world.
What do you know about brazilian web designers or graphic designers?
Rex – Nando Costa rocks!
Joyce – I know a few brazilians from my school before, they are such fun people to be wtih, and they have a unique sense of creativity in graphic design.
Any final comments?
Inksurge – a good barista can brighten up your day!
Thanks Joyce Tai and Rex Advincula for having taken their time to make this interview with us
Interview done by Flavio Monteiro for UAILAB
August 2004
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