The Monastery
A Place to Eat • Drink • Chill • Dance
This is Cebu City’s premiere bar. The first of its kind throughout the country. Flowing craft beer and a unique Colonial Buddha ambiance, Mark was commissioned to strengthen the overall vibe by creating the logo and managing the brand art direction, from events to collaterals.
Logo
The client wanted to encorporate the ambient hypnotic charm of Buddha Bar (and anything buddha in fact). So Mark devised a logo design which literally shows just that. A praying monk enclosed in a Mandala. Started out as pure linework on black, feeling the need to add colors, the client suggested a literal palette of monk colors, the end result now shows within this page.
Amidst all of the technical work Mark does, he is always the go-to art director for marketing and promotions. Here are some of Mark’s works. All worked on digitally and released via social media and traditional advertising.
For more than a year, Mark designed all the event posters for this company. Except for the major events (which require his full concentration), it looks to be an amazing feat yet this was possible because through ingenius ways. Since Mark cant have all his time creating event posters for the majority of the bar’s operation days, he sought to create a template layout with stock photos everchanging per event. It saves time and money. He personally feels that he started the trend in “instagram square” posters in Cebu.
