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Team Manila lets Pinoys wear their hearts on their sleeves


Patriotism has never looked so cool. Team Manila started emblazoning a sunglass-wearing Jose Rizal on shirts and started a movement. The graphic design team has earned tons of followers by putting normal items like the jeepney on their products, spurring a frenzy that doesn’t seem to be slowing down.

Team Manila's designs have caught the fancy of the T-shirt crowd. Melissa de los Santos
The group uses mainstream Filipino images and beliefs, elevating normal, “everyday" things as something worth wearing proudly on a shirt. They’ve made being nationalistic very fashionable. Eight years after its inception, an exhibit chronicling the group’s humble beginnings to its present status as a pop culture institution can be viewed in limited durations at various locations. The “Home of the Orig" display, as it was dubbed, showcases the group’s inspirations for their designs, as well as the work that goes behind their every creation.
Jose Rizal in dark sunglasses started the patriotic trend in shirt designs. Melissa de los Santos
Liz Bautista, public relations officer of Team Manila, said that they came up with the exhibit “to further promote neo-nationalism in our country through the language of graphic design." The group believes “graphic design is an agent of change," as their products continue transforming the way Filipinos view their society. “Team Manila sparked the movement committing to memory the country’s rich culture, never to be forgotten," the exhibit notes state proudly. With their ingenious designs adorning everything from wall clocks to coin purses, forgetting is indeed very unlikely.
Innovative Pinoy-inspired graphics through the years. Melissa de los Santos
The month-long exhibit kicked off on October 21, bringing the exhibit to the TeamManila Lifestyle store at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City. It will then be installed at the Powerplant Mall in Makati City from October 26 to 31. The “Home of the Orig" exhibit will be displayed from November 6 to 20 at the Trinoma Mall in Quezon City. - GMANews.TV
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