The Making of Urbandub's The Apparition

Congratulations again to Urbandub for their latest album entitled "The Appartion". We haven't received our copies yet for both special edition and regular edition, but we are posting the developments for the album packaging that we did for them in collaboration with Nicc Balce of The-Null fame. The illustrations was based on Gabby Alipe's story behind the album and its songs. A girl seeing a light on the woods, following it, encounters the villain, fights back then meeting the Apparition.

Character sketches

Scene sketch for the song "Gravity"

Sketch for the first song on the album entitled "The Appartion"

The apparition rough sketch

Rough sketch of villain


Rough sketch for covers

This character was supposed to be part of the digipack, but was replaced by the illustration of the band

Mock up design for the packaging...

We'll be posting more soon as soon as we get our copies! Hope you enjoy the album art for those of you who purchased it already. Thanks again to Urbandub and MCA for commissioning us to design the packaging.

Dub progress...

More sketches for Urbandub's upcoming album...

Creative Collab behind the scenes

Inksurge collaborates with Vince Uy, Cathy Cantada, Kai Huang and Christina Dy for Manila’s Design Week – Creative Collab exhibition held in Greenbelt 5, Makati. We explored the idea of reversing the design process of a fashion editorial – type, cropping, shoot then creating a 3d form of the actual product.


Now off to Pioneer studio for the set up

Now the results after the shoot...

Now time to work on the pieces that the model is going to hold on the frame for the exhibit

Now the actual exhibit piece..

Manila Design Week Day 2 - Creative Collaboration

Day 2 of MDW - Creative Collaboration. Also included photos of our exhibit piece set up @ gbelt 5 around 2 am..

Showtime!

Sugarfree - Mornings and Airports production...

Sugarfree's new album was released last Monday (but we don't have copies yet hehe) so we are just posting some photos from the shoot and development of some elements we used for their new album entitled "Mornings and Airports". We wanted to come up with another memorable packaging for the band (like we did with Tala-Arawan), this time we played around with concept of creating a passport booklet with custom stamps and visa looking title pages. Before we landed on this concept, we met with the band and the management a few months ago with great ideas for the album, but time and budget for the production is always the enemy hehe, so we happily ended with this one.

New band logo / identity for Sugarfee

Band shoot with Pong Ignacio (photographer) , Christina Dy and Vicky Velasco (Styling), Fred Peñales (Hair and Make-Up)


We rush produced hand-made rubber stamps as part of the elements to be used inside the booklet of the album. We created passport stamps for Sugarfree's most memorable gigs/locations for the past 10 years

We'll be posting the album packaging as soon as we get our copies. You can see it via their official website at WeAreSugarfree. Thanks to the band - Ebe, Jal and Kaka, to Karin, Miss Ethel and Boss Willie of PolyEast Records

Pupil - Wildlife Special Edition

We were comissioned by Pupil to design their special edition album Wildlife, a 2-cd packaging with re-mastered tracks from their Wildlife album plus demos, videos and liner notes. Extra thanks to Everywhereweshoot for helping us out on the band photos we used on the packaging. Its already out on the record bars so go grab one. We haven't updated our main site yet (we have tons to update hehe) so watch out for it, in the meantime enjoy some behind the scenes on the project....

New band logo / identity for Pupil

Mock-ups for the approved packaging

This should be the size of the liner notes/poster to be used on the album, we changed the format of it, making it smaller and fit to the digipack...


Here is the alternative design for the album which never saw the light....

We would like to thank the band and ms. Day Cabuhat for inviting us to work on their album! Enjoy!

Stamp it

Custom rubber stamps for an upcoming project......

Monday Shoot..

Starting the week with a shoot...

Band Attack

Its been a jam-pack week which involves bands and their music

The Diegos - dishing out some beats

Sandwich - in their all white outfit

A view of electronic gadgetry from Pedicab's RA Rivera

Snapshot of Pupil on stage @ Mag:net Fort

Guerilla rainy shoot with Pupil and EWWS

Ebe of Sugarfree explains the concept that he has in mind..