PROFILE

They’d rather stay in than go out even when they live in Poblacion

For Mano Gonzales and Jan Pineda, when you have all you need at home you don’t need to go anywhere else. Your friends will come to you

Meet Lokalpedia, the food heritage advocate documenting overlooked endemic Filipino ingredients

John Sherwin Felix AKA Lokalpedia’s photo collection documents artisanal salts and edible flowers

It’s Vintage’s new Makati space is a glimpse inside its owner Fed Pua’s brain

In this interview, its owner and creative director talks about his small renovation project, growing out of his former brand Factory Boy’s “college cool,” and merging his love for the arts and fashion in one space

Bubk’s Gabe Cruz takes us on a journey through light

The furniture designer shines a light on Bubk’s creative process, his most challenging project, and the comfort of working with his own two hands

Wareco’s Therese Regalado goes beyond the limits of light and lightness

With a new six-piece collection of rattan furniture reinforced with metal and glass, the maker rethinks the material bounds of creativity

Minsan’s Dano Tingcungco reveals the surprising intimacy in bags

The journalist-designer makes use of memories, both personal and collective, to form the leather accouterments he creates. The result: bags telling of the characters of both maker and bearer

How Grindr sunset profiles swiped into a queer community-based art initiative

What started as two separate projects by artists Czar Kristoff and Zeus Bascon became a community coming-together, a safe space, and possibly, an intervention

The man reviving the century-old art of street box camera photography

Can you believe photographer Jovel Lorenzo took these black-and-white photos in the last two years with a camera he built himself?

Pio Abad’s latest exhibit reveals the ugliness behind the beauty of martial law

The London-based Filipino artist returns to talks about navigating the cognitive dissonance of our fraught understanding of history

Relearning one’s sense of place with filmmaker Shireen Seno

The filmmaker shares her path to self-discovery through learning about the in-betweens of being Filipino.