Usbong is Tagalog for "bud," the moment a flower first breaks open.
I dug into Flora de Filipinas (1877–1883), a 19th-century botanical atlas of Philippine plants, through the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Wikimedia Commons. I turned its hand-colored plates into a fictional...
You've tasted the chocolate. Now, you want to see where it grows 🌳
Meet Nasam-it Farm, a family cacao farm in the Philippines, planted in 1960 by a grandfather who was told tobacco would pay better. His granddaughter brought the grove back as a bean-to-bar brand. Nasam-it is...
The Lover’s Eye was never just a portrait. It was a portrait of a gaze. The art of looking back.
For the #FLORAMuseumChallenge, I chose the 19th-century Lover’s Eye Bracelet, an intimate object featuring a miniature of a loved one’s eye. Pieces like these were worn close to the...
Is this the freelancing equivalent of your prefrontal cortex fully developing at 25? 🤔
A year ago, I moved from our i18n team at Canva, where I led and supported template campaigns built around cultural insights, local context, and the nuances of how people celebrate, communicate, and create across different locales.
Now, on Growth, my design team's starting point...
