ABOUT US

Kawalodesign - a cebu based graphics & web design team. A design team started in late 2007 by Rey Siasar and Michael Barrientos.

We wer first lined-up in 2007, when Rey and Michael began working together formally, having founded a small design team called Crazy Monkey. They’d hammered projects together as early as 2005 as freelancers. Rey was working out of Cebu and Michael was in Manila. After Michael moved to Cebu, They added 2 more members to the group (coz we needed more *).

Since then, they did a lot of great design work for businesses, events, popular websites and more.

We also do photography, design brands, comic illustrations and vector arts.

Kawalo - "Ka"& "Walo", the word walo means eight in cebuano dialect. When added by "ka" makes it "8th". So Kawalo means "Eighth". Which makes our team name "The 8th Design" or Kawalodesign.


The Members

Rey Siasar
Kawalo's head director & lead illustrator. Currently working fulltime in an NGO here in Cebu and working sideline with his comic creation and events production.

Michael Barrientos
Kawalo's Lead designer, currently working as a layouting artist and multimedia designer at Lexmark International. In charge frontend design in every kawalo projects.

Louis Gabriel Oquias
The team's photographer who specializes in digital macro & product photography. He currently runs a poultry & shipping business here in cebu.

Joseph Michaelson Lo
Currently working at Procter & Gamble as a Java EE software engineer. As our webdeveloper, his responsibilities include: creation of modules, refactoring, unit testing.