Kwentong Creatives

JP is an advertising veteran with 17 years of experience in the industry, with two Cannes Young Lions Advertising awards under his belt. He's a prolific painter and illustrator with countless works for gigs, local bands and movies like Babae sa Septic Tank. He is currently entering game design in the blockchain gaming & NFT space. 

A new year of Kwentong Creatives sees us look into the practice of making resolutions. How can you start 2022 with the right mindset moving forward? We gather answers from AF Benaza (Director, Ep1), Jaz Reyes (Content Creator, Ep4) and Atom Araullo (Journalist, Ep12). Gio also shares some of his favorite insights and tools for achieving goals, habit formation & introspection. 

After 8 years of work in the advertising industry he started making funny Tagaolg dubs as a creative outlet.  Eventually he found huge success in comedy sketches and characters like everyone's favorite internet tita, Auntie Julie. 

Macoy talks about creating content that is honest, real and personal to the creative. He stresses the importance of work with a social conscience, a mindset he adapts in talking about LGBTQI representation, sex positivity and politics. 

Atom Araullo is a journalist, presenter, photographer, and host. With a career that's spanned almost 15 years in journalism, he's done documentaries and exposés for GMA, ABS-CBN, VICE News and many more. He is also a national Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 

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Rob Cham is an illustrator, comic book creator, artist, and friend. He received the National Book Award for his first graphic novel Light and the National Children’s Book Award for the follow-up, Lost. He is part of the core team of Unnamed, a South East Asian Comics Collective. Former web designer, teacher, art director, and editor for Abangan: The Best in Philippine Komiks.

CRWN is a music producer and August Wahh is a singer/songwriter. Together they put out the highly-acclaimed Labyrinth EP in 2019, and have continued making waves in the local & international music scenes ever since. They're musicians at the top of their game, still finding ways to be creative with music amidst a pandemic. In this collab episode, we cover a span of topics that can benefit  any creative who's had to work with another person or within a team. So all of that, plus many colorful stories from their journeys as artists. 

In celebration of #Pride for this month we have the content creator Macoy Averilla aka Macoy Dubs. After 8 years of work in the advertising industry he started making funny Tagaolg dubs as a creative outlet.  Eventually he found huge success in comedy sketches and characters like everyone's favorite internet tita, Auntie Julie. 

Macoy talks about creating content that is honest, real and personal to the creative. He stresses the importance of work with a social conscience, a mindset he adapts in talking about LGBTQI representation, sex positivity and politics. 

Herbert is a creative director and recording artist. After 17 years in the industry, he founded the now globally-acclaimed ad agency, GIGIL. Since then he's worked on viral award-winning campaigns for brands like Levi's, RC Cola and Netflix, all while writing songs and playing guitar for bands like Moonstar88 & Six Cycle Mind. Herbert shares practical advice on coming up with great ideas, as well as breaking down the process behind some of the most popular campaigns in recent years. 

Jake Aycardo is a cook and entrepreneur who's opened up many food concepts since his stint at MasterChef Asia in 2015. Toni Potenciano is a brand strategist and writer who works for the design studio And-A-Half. Together they make up the team that brought Kodawari to life - a cloud kitchen concept that serves glorious Gyudon and Shroomdon.

We get into a lot in this episode: the business of running a cloud kitchen, how to have your brand adapt under these new pandemic rules, learning to trust other creatives and collaborators, anime and manga recommendations  - all these and so much more.

This is also the first of our Kwentuhan series - casual roundtable discussions between myself and other creative partners or collaborators.

Chef Nicco Santos has owned restaurants like Your Local, Hey Handsome and now a cloud concept called Sambar. In this episode we get insight from the mind of a chef - a job that requires one to be an artist, an entrepreneur and a leader.