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Villarica Manuel, a designer and an art director. Outside of her day job, she has been building her career as an artist. She actively participated in art competitions since she was 12 years old. Among her distinctions include being awarded the President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Award for Culture and the Arts.

Her career in advertising is equally impressive. She won Gold in an advertising competition in Busan, Korea, the Ad Stars New Stars in 2019. In the year that followed, she was the only woman who made it to the Philippines’ top 10 at the Asia-wide portfolio competition Ubisum by Ubies. And in 2021, she was named a finalist in Colorful: Prelude to Young Guns 19, a special grant program for up-and-coming BIPOC creatives around the world.

She has spearheaded projects for brands that informed her curatorial sensibilities. Some of these projects include the first of the National Artists inspired fonts, the Abdulmari Imao Typeface project, exhibited at the Ayala Museum in 2019, and the Rimowa traveling exhibition in 2015, to name a few.

The brands she handled include McDonald’s, Samsung, Harry Winston, and Nissin Cup Noodles. As a skilled creative with a decade’s worth of experience under her belt, she goes from selling one-peso-worth candies to six-figured diamond rings. But it doesn’t end there, Villarica wants to be more.

Villarica dreams of making the world see that there’s space for the Philippines in the global art scene, just like how the savage, Rihanna and Beyonce, do their thing.

Colorful Finalist - Prelude to Young Guns 19 ✨
Manila Illustration Fair
Official Artist - Jakarta Illustration and Creative Arts Fair 2023