Babbling Point

. Quick Report I'm now in Pattaya, Thailand attending Adfest 2005 . Last night, the awards for the print catgory were given and one of the very few winners came from Filipino ad agency BBDO Guerrero-Ortega. They won the following awards: Single Print Category Bronze Award for the Orbit gum print ad. Print Campaign Category Bronze Award for the Childhope Asia campaign. Outdoor poster Category Bronze Award for the Smart MMS posters. Out of the 3,000+ entries from the entire region (and how many hundred entries from the Philippines) they were one of the few to get into the finals and win awards. The judges were so strict in determine the best ads that in some categories no awards were given at all. So, congratulations to the creative teams for BBDO Guerrero Ortega.

. Tongue-Tied Two On a related note, Leigh blogged : The Manila Bulletin, which has billed itself "The Nation's Leading Newspaper" since I could pull off bangs with aplomb, has a television commercial. Its tagline? "Freedom used as it should." WHAT?No wonder this country is going to hell in a handbag. Our "leading" English newspaper doesn't even have a grammatically correct tagline.

. Tongue-tied I recently received an email from a senior college student, studying in a one of Manila’s major universities. She was doing a report on Filipino comic books for her journalism class and here was her list of questions: 1. How does comic affects its readers? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of comics through its readers? 3. When and where does comic-making start in the Philippines? 4. Today, how was the comic industry surviving in the competitive business of media? 5. What is the current status of Filipino-made comics? 6. Nowadays, some of the comics were created as an animation or movie. Does this process helps the comic industry to live by? 7. I am asking in some news stand, if they have comics for sale. Unfortunately, they have none. Where do the comics go? or Where can I find the Filipino-made comics aside from the Internet? Looking at the bright side of things, at least she didn’t write her letter in txtspeak. I’ve already received two or three emails that