Miggie Bacungan: Manila Maximalism as Graphic Design Critique

Filipino designer Miggie Bacungan builds a hyper-saturated, organised-chaos visual language out of Metro Manila tarpaulin posters, jeepney decals, Catholic kitsch and bootleg streetwear — using kitsch not as nostalgia but as a critical instrument. In projects like Artificial Flavouring and Kain Tayo he turns inflation, food precarity and pop-culture imagery into design that interrogates rather than decorates. Source: It’s Nice That

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