FilipiKnow: Adobo and Sinigang

These are a set of FilipiKnow information capsules I designed and art directed for GMA News TV. Featured are two of the most popular Filipino dishes -- adobo and sinigang. Adobo is meat, seafood, or vegetables marinated in a sauce of vinegar and garlic, browned in oil, and simmered in the marinade. Considered as the unofficial national dish of the Philippines and probably has the same number of variants as the Philippines has islands. Sinigang is a soup/stew known for its sour and savory flavor derived from ingredients such as tamarind, guava, calamansi, bilimbi, or unripe mango.

Made with very limited budget, I decided to do the food styling and photography myself. Then, obviously, I got to eat the food I shot :)

NAPOLEON ABUEVA

"Mang Billy" Filipino National Artist for Sculpture Napoleon Abueva. Brush and ink portrait. Napoleon Abueva (January 26, 1930 – February 16, 2018), more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, was a Filipino artist. He was a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He was also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He was awarded National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts.

Edith Tiempo

Filipino National Artist for Literature Edith Tiempo. Ballpen and markers. Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011), poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language.Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai." As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine Literature in English. Together with her late husband, writer and critic Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded (in 1962) and directed the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City, which has produced some of the Philippines' best writers.She was conferred the National Artist Award for Literature in 1999.

Halo-halo

Digital illustration; 2014 Halo-halo (Tagalog language for "Hodge-Podge") is a popular Filipino dessert with mixtures of shaved ice and evaporated milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans, jello and fruits, and served in a tall glass or bowl. from wikipedia

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