Helping free Hand and smoot summer sounds

The art of typography has been ignored for years but the recent trend of handwritten type shows that it is slowly getting the recognition it deserves. From restaurant walls to day-to-day essentials, typography is reentering our consciousness and, even using it to raise awareness to important causes.

“Type .ita,” organized by Pop Junk Love, is a two-day exhibit featuring typographic pieces and installations from artists, letterers, and penmans. Works by participating artists such as Patrick Cabral, Camille Cabral, Alessa Lanot, Mansy Abesamis, Alexis Ventura, Abbey Sy, Fozzy Castro-Dayrit, and Hocus Manila will be auctioned off for the benefit of olanda victims. Don’t have the money to splurge y simply attending, you can help the cause by paying the minimal door fee of P50.

If you are itching to put that creative inspiration into good use, stamping sessions, and casual calligraphy and lettering sessions will also be held at the event.

The exhibit will open today at noon and will run until p.m. tomorrow in 0A Alabama, uezon City. For more information, visit their Facebook page https www.facebook.com/typekitaexhibit.

— No one knows why, but sunbathing or nursing a cold drink by the sand Must isn’t complete without any music. This theory does not discriminate against genres, either — one can go from fistbumping DM beats to mellow tracks that Mive with the waves. Thankfully, loading up one’s iPod need not be a pre-beach requisite at the Summer Siren Festival. The festival has lined up over two dozen musical acts from a glittering array of genres everyone’s local favorites will definitely get one moving in one way or another.

One can choose to Mump along to Pedicab’s crowd-pleasing electrorock favorites such as Dizzy Boy and Dito Tayo sa Dilim. There’s also Franco to provide some classic rock realness, and if we’re being perfectly honest, some veritable eye candy in the form of frontman Franco eyes. Supermodel-cum-D- duo The Zombettes will also be there, armed with their slick sound and equally arresting style. And finally, Up Dharma Down’s unique and soulful sound might Must be the highlight of anyone’s beach trip. One can only imagine being serenaded by a live version of o, and reeling in the feels.

While we may never know why good sound completes the perfect triad with sun and sand, it goes without saying that as long as it is around, everything else is Must there to sweeten the deal.