:: BLACK MATTER CUSTOMS ::
a network of highly talented and driven local artists who are at their happiest when creating original animation, inspiring toys and crazy collectibles.
The artists of BLACK MATTER CUSTOMS work behind the scenes, forming the often-overlooked but indispensable matrix that supports our local creative industry.
Now, fuelled by untiring imagination, they’re channeling their energies into exciting new projects – building highly detailed action figures out of scrap material, customizing miniature toys, and dreaming up quirky illustrations.
They start with nothing and create incredible art out of it. You can expect only great things to come out of BLACK MATTER CUSTOMS.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
3:07 AM
Under Construction
:: DOT MATTER ::
Jan Calleja
Recent and experimental works of graphic artist Jan Calleja whose past works include SCENOGRAPHY for ABS-CBN; MURALS for private and public establishments; SETS for theatre plays and film; GRAPHIC DESIGN for Healthway Medical, ABS - CBN Licensing Group and currently for REDWORKS MANILA.
Gilbert Ibanez
As far as artists go, it’s hard to imagine anyone more versatile than Gilbert Ibañez. Not only is he a highly skilled and multi-awarded graphic artist, he’s also equally adept and successful at mixed martial arts. For the last 12 years he’s been working as a Computer Graphic Artist for Ogilvy & Mather, having honed his skills as a visualizer and illustrator at several animation shops before that. Now that he’s chosen to channel his many talents into the creation of original toys, you can bet that the results won’t be anything short of striking. Not if they’re anything like the inventor himself.
Ian Darren Aycocho
As a child, Ian Aycocho’s definition of playing with toys was to take them apart. Nothing fascinated him more than breaking a toy down into its internal components, and then rearranging them into various new configurations just to see what would happen next.
His first experiment was to remove all the limbs of a two-inch robot, only to put it back together again using pins. He has also attached baby-rockets to a toy car and watched with pleasure as it sprinted several meters along the street.
To this day, toys still don’t last very long in Ian’s hands. He can’t resist experimenting with them, and it is this unending curiosity that transforms these otherwise ordinary objects into his very own brand of art.