From Vision to Vows: Bringing Dream Weddings to Life

Wedding planner Hannah Nuque-Carizon shares the beginning of their business, their struggles, inspiration and how they make couple’s dream weddings come true with Canva.

In the bustling world of wedding planning, one entrepreneur stands out for her dedication, creativity, and the exceptional services she provides to couples—Hannah Nuque-Carizon, owner of the events management business Hulyo Trece Management Services.

Organizing events, especially life milestones like weddings, requires meticulous planning and attention to detail. Her previous role as a Business Process Manager prepared her with the critical skills needed to thrive in her business.

“We’ve been operating since 2016 and started with crafting invitations and souvenirs, photography service and later on have invested in equipment and more items in order to provide full event planning services of course with the help of outside suppliers,” Hannah shares.

Canva Launches Canva for Campus for Colleges and Universities

Canva announces the launch of Canva for Campus, its new college and tertiary education offering, bringing the power of visual communication to colleges and universities around the world.

"As visual communication becomes a part of everyday life, there has never been a more important time for classrooms around the world to embrace the power of digital and design literacy. Not only is visual communication an essential skill for today’s workplace, it’s also an enabler for creativity and collaboration," said Cameron Adams, Canva co-founder and chief product officer.

Canva launches its largest content update

Stock videos, photography, icons, elements, animated stickers,
audio tracks, illustrations, and more are all available
for access to all Canva Pro Users. Photo credit: Canva

Global online design platform, Canva, has launched the biggest update to Canva Pro in history, with 15 times more content now available at no extra cost.

The major upgrade is taking on traditionally expensive stock subscriptions by including more than 60 million premium images, over 20 thousand videos along with a huge collection of audio tracks, and more than 3.5 million graphic elements as part of its subscription-based product Canva Pro, saving its design community up to 10 times the cost of comparable platforms and stock subscriptions in the market today.

Pixar Animation Studios’ Bryn Imagire inspires young Filipino creatives

To celebrate the release of Disney-Pixar’s “Incredibles 2” in the Philippines, Pixar Animation Studios Shading Art Director Bryn Imagire visited Manila and led an animation workshop.

Besides talking about the evolution of the animation process from 2004’s “The Incredibles” to this year’s “Incredibles 2,” Imagire, who has been with Pixar Animation Studios since 1996, also showed the students the process of creating images for the film, including how base costume designs for major characters are tweaked to create costumes for extras or background characters. Imagire serves as both shading art director and costume designer for “Incredibles 2.” “Usually, it takes about three hours to render one scene,” she said.

Nippon Paint announces major expansion in the Philippines

Global paint leader eyes architectural paints segment with target of PHP1.5billion sales turnover in 3 years

A global leader in coating solutions announces a major expansion move in the Philippines, the entrance of a new company to focus on the introduction of its architectural or decorative coating solutions. Nippon Paint (Coatings) Philippines will bring to the local market an innovative and diverse suite of Total Coating Solutions™ - coating solutions for roofs to floors, and everything in between. Further complemented with its Trend Beyond Colours™ special effect paint where walls now come alive with texture. 

“At Nippon Paint, we take great pride in being a Total Coating Solutions provider – not just coatings for different surfaces but multi-segment offerings too; from architectural, to protective coatings, industrial, automotive and even marine coatings” said Nippon Paint Southeast Asia (NIPSEA) Group Chief Executive Officer, Wee Siew Kim. “As Asia’s No. 1 coatings manufacturer, we are excited that Filipinos will soon enjoy innovative coating solutions of unparalleled quality, together with a colour palette that runs into the thousands” he added.

XSTIG: Design students contribute to building thoughtful homes

Imagine this: You had an exhausting day at school and you can’t wait to get home and rest. On your way home, the weather was unpredictable and the pollution in the streets was horrible. As you enter your room, you realize that it is not as spotless as you hoped it was. You come in to the kitchen to find good food, but you find nothing on the dining table. You had a draining day and the last thing you would want to do is take care of the household chores.

As you let out a weary sigh, you realize that your home appliances can take care of all these. You see the MAB cleaner scanning your house and deploying its flying mini-robots to the areas in need of cleaning. Meanwhile, an Atonium 3D Food Printer has determined your nutritional needs and is working on a healthy meal for you. At the same time, the Breathing Wall started to purify the air while recreating an environment that will help you relive a happy memory. Imagine this futuristic scenario made possible by you.

This advanced home is the brainchild of the top three winners at last year’s Electrolux Design Lab competition.

Adobo Design Awards 2013 Call For Entries!

Since being introduced in 2007, the Adobo Design Awards has sought to champion the Philippines' best in design and to recognize the talents behind the work. Now on its fourth year, the competition, organized by adobo magazine - the country's premier advertising and brand communications publication - is championing a search for the most creative work with a purpose.

The Professional Category is open to creative professionals, Philippine or foreign-based companies and individuals.   Entries in this category vie for individual category awards for each format, with as many gold, silver and bronze winners as there are deserving.  Best in Show winners are then selected from all gold winners, regardless of format but based on their stated purpose: "Design for a Purpose" or "Design for Good". 

"Design for a Purpose" awards work that promotes an individual, product, company, brand or event, while "Design for Good" supports campaigns for a worthy cause, advocacy, CSR or public service. 

After-School Assignment: Brighten Up Your Summer with Scotch® and Post-it® Products!

The bell has rung! School’s out, summer’s in! Along with the graceful exit of each academic year comes the question: “What am I supposed to do now?” Because, let’s face it, after being busy all year at school, the months of doing nothing seem to stretch on and on. For you to make the most out of this season, we have cool tips on how you can make the most of your free days, remain productive, get organized and become creative!

1. Plot the Plan

Think less of it as a to-do list and more of a wish list! Pen down the activities and experiences as well as tasks and errands that you want to do for the summer. You may simply jot them down on a Post-it® Ruled Notes such as: learn photography, clean up your computer hard drive, marathon the latest season of your favourite series, have a sleepover, and tidy up your room. A list will serve as your guide throughout the whole summer so that you can be sure that you don’t miss out on any adventure.

2. Out with the Old!

As each academic year concludes, there comes a room full of assorted school supplies, books and notes.  Ignoring the nagging mess in your room will just create roll a ball of junk as time goes by. Survey your books and school supplies; take the time to fix or de-clutter them.

Gather those files up and label them per subject and then per semester. You may use Post-it® Flags for this. Their various colours will help you color-code and get better organized. After you have sorted and stored your things, you now have an option to preserve them for future reference, hand them down to help out younger siblings or your juniors at school or even donate them to a public school or charity. Doing this has a double-edged effect: you have saved your room space while helping other people in need.  

Inspect every corner of your room and categorize the things that you want to keep and the ones that you have to throw away. For those belongings that you wish to keep, place them inside stylish and patterned boxes. Using Scotch® Packaging Tape, you may easily secure the storage boxes and stack them neatly in one corner of your room. 

3. In with the new!

Now that you are officially mess-free, you may move forward to the more fun part: Decorating! Imagine the room as your canvass; let loose of your artsy side and express how happy you are for summer. And what better way to do this than to fill-up your wall with summer memories?

These memories are things you will one day look back on fondly. Treasure these recollections by turning them into a collage on your wall. For this, you can use Scotch® Reusable Mounting Strips to mount colorful cartolinas to your wall (without having to worry about damaging the surface) and then tack your summer snapshots there using Scotch® Double-Sided Tape. It is coated with photo-safe, permanent adhesive on both sides. 

You can also keep a scrapbook for this purpose. You don’t need to confine yourself to an album-type either. Get loose and creative! Summer memories can be kept using an envelope collage – various envelopes of different sizes and colors can store items and keepsakes to easily pull out and recollect. You can also use a long length of cartolina, fold it a la accordion type and secure  the mementoes you want to keep on either side then fold it back into a box for safe-keeping. To fasten your important items, you can use Scotch® Magic Tape which cuts easily and seals cleanly. It also has a transparent finish and resists yellowing or cracking with age so you can keep these memories safe for longer.

There are so many cool room ideas that you can do with the help of Scotch® products and you may share the thrill of these activities with your friends as well!  Make this summer count and may it be the best that you’ll ever have! 

3M, Post-it® and Scotch® are trademarks of 3M

Scotch® Brand sets a new trend—Rabbit style tape dispenser

Scotch® Brand launches its one of a kind Rabbit Dispenser as the latest addition to their tape dispenser portfolio.

An essential home and office tool, the Scotch® Rabbit Dispenser is designed with a sleek shape, pointed rabbit ears, and comes in four fun colors– pink, white, teal, and black. Its lightweight, stable base and secure blade makes organizing convenient, safe and mess-free. One of the product’s functional features is that it is manageable to refill with the invisible and easy-to-cut Scotch® Magic™ Tape which then helps busy moms, dedicated teachers and students stay organized with style.   

“We see that the youth and young professionals have grown to be more expressive in their creativity and individuality, that is why 3M Philippines always comes up with innovative products that meet both personal and functional needs of our market,” says Haydee Casapao, Stationery and Office Supplies Division Head.  

Each pack of the Rabbit Dispenser contains 1 Scotch® Magic ™ Tape Rabbit Dispenser and 2 rolls of Scotch® Magic™ Tape 18mm x 15m. The stylish and economically efficient Scotch® Magic ™ Tape Rabbit Dispenser is now available in major bookstores and office superstores nationwide. 

3M and Scotch® are trademarks of 3M.

Opening Up a Multiply Store!

Last month we got to meet several entrepreneurs who found business success with Multiply.com. And from humble beginnings of small scale online selling has now evolved into large stores with plenty of patrons visiting and making purchases online. Though not originally planned to be a online marketplace, Multiply Marketplace features made it so ideal to showcase products   with real time responses and now with a larger array of payment options.