TENORIO, BRIAN | Designing Development

Rehab and Wellness Chain in the Philippines

by HQ on Feb 7, 2019 • Comments Closed

We putting up a rehab chain with a very operations model, something more accessible and a better overall experience. While very well applying a very international standard to service and facilities. So we are diversifying into health and wellness soon. Opening up to conversations on partnerships and investments, as we draw...

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Orphanage Start-up #2022

by HQ on Jan 27, 2019 • Comments Closed

Orphanage Start-up in the Philippines

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Magical Bubble Coffee from KapeTayo

by HQ on Nov 18, 2018 • Comments Closed

Magical Bubble Coffee from KapeTayo, coming this 2018 December

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Sampaguita Design Theme for KapeTayo Coffee

by HQ on Apr 15, 2018 • Comments Closed

This is the Sampaguita Design Theme created by Brian Tenorio for KapeTayo Coffee #kapetayocoffee ‘s packaging design.

Blog / Coffee

Designing Philippine Coffee

by HQ on Sep 26, 2017 • Comments Closed

Last September 18 to 22, 2017, KapeTayo Coffee’s founder and CEO, Brian Tenorio, was commissioned by the DTI Cordillera Administrative Region RD Myrna Pablo to develop the branding and identity design of the top coffee firms from CAR. SEPTEMBER 18 to 22, 2017: With DTI Cordillera Administrative Region CAR Regional...

Blog / Diversity

Katulad — the LGBT experience in the Philippines

by HQ on Sep 10, 2017 • Comments Closed

While at our service today and my mind was in a lot of places (yes, sigh), I thought of this word that could perhaps define and capture the LGBT experience in the Philippines: KATULAD. We think that it is beautiful how the word -is inspired by our past, -defines the present,...

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This green teaser.

by HQ on Aug 28, 2017 • Comments Closed

I fell in love with this green leather — that’s why I’m posting at 12midnight on a Sunday/Monday. LOL Can’t wait for the other colors. I guess this is what it means — growing older as a designer. Every detail just will have more meaning and significance to you.

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“Out in Business: Business Believes in Diversity”

by HQ on May 10, 2017 • Comments Closed

On the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) and in celebration of Diversity, the Netherlands Embassy in the Philippines in cooperation with the Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce and the Philippines-Netherlands Business Council organizes this panel discussion: “Out in Business: Business Believes in Diversity”

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Brian Tenorio & Co – précis

by HQ on Apr 18, 2017 • Comments Closed

Brian Tenorio & Co. – Beyond Brand, Strategy and Design, everything. #LAHAT

Blog / Coffee / Design Para sa Lahat

KapeTayo – Filipino Coffee from beans, to brews, to brand

by HQ on Apr 11, 2017 • Comments Closed

The Brian Tenorio Group launches their newest brand, KapeTayo. Filipino Coffee -- from beans, to brews, to brand! #kapetayo #kape #philippinecoffee #briantenorio

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Tsaatayo – Exotic Teas and Infusions from the Philippine Islands

by HQ on Apr 11, 2017 • Comments Closed

The Brian Tenorio Group launches their newest brand, Tsaatayo with the goal of bringing Philippine Tea to everyone around the world! #kapetayo #tsaatayo #tsaa #briantenorio

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The Asian Development Bank’s “#onthemargins of Development”

by HQ on Feb 12, 2017 • Comments Closed

The Chair of the Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce, Brian Tenorio, was invited to be a panel speaker at “On the Margins of Development: Asia-Pacific LGBT Inclusion, Poverty Reduction and Prosperity”, hosted in recognition of 16 Days of Activism on Violence Against Women, to be held at the Asian Development...

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Araw ng Kape – the Philippine contribution to the International Coffee Day (Schedule of Events)

by HQ on Sep 26, 2016 • Comments Closed

#arawngkape happens this Oct 1 along Maginhawa St, Quezon City. Everyone is welcome! Always search for #arawngkape to be updated with the events and promotions for this special day! Araw ng Kape is the Philippine contribution to the International Coffee Day www.internationalcoffeeday.org

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What or how is Filipino Coffee? #kape

by HQ on Sep 18, 2016 • Comments Closed

Filipino Coffee, is warm familiar charm.

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ARAW ng KAPE – the Philippines’ contribution to the International Coffee Day community

by HQ on Sep 3, 2016 • Comments Closed

The first ARAW NG KAPE in the Philippines -- our country's contribution to the International Coffee Day community!

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Determining the LGBT Population of the Philippines

by HQ on Aug 29, 2016 • Comments Closed

The Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce (www.diversity.ph) is currently organizing the Philippine Diversity Index report that should determine the LGBT population of the Philippines. The research and survey work for the report will be with a market research firm with input from other LGBT organizations (to provide the LGBT-lens for...

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Kape Coffee Co launches newest brew: KX

by HQ on Jun 24, 2016 • Comments Closed

Sweet and sentimental, creamy iced brewed coffee. #filipinocoffeeculture

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PRIDE Restaurant Week (Launch 2016)

by HQ on Jun 24, 2016 • Comments Closed

Let's us all celebrate PRIDE and DIVERSITY through great food, drinks, and company!

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The Trochus Coffee Dripper by designer Brian Tenorio

by HQ on May 18, 2016 • Comments Closed

Beyond just our beans, there is our Filipino Coffee Culture – how we prepare, brew, serve, and love our coffee. Kape Coffee Co. and KKK Coffee believe in Filipino Coffee Culture. Designer Brian Tenorio (www.briantenorio.com) captures a moment of Filipino Coffee Culture in this designer handmade ceramic Trochus Coffee Dripper ...

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A poem from 2015: 28 FULL MOONS OF A MOMENT

by HQ on Mar 28, 2016 • Comments Closed

For in my hand, I have, dried in moonlight, a burnt stretch of snakeskin for that pair of shoes you've asked of me that I shall never make regrettably.

Blog / Design Travels

27k likes, 1.3k shares ++ The Philippine-flag sunset taken from the next site of KKK Coffee (in Antipolo, Philippines)

by HQ on Mar 13, 2016 • Comments Closed

Brian Tenorio, CEO of Kape Coffee Company (KKK Coffee in the Philippines) was in their prospective site for their cafe branch in in Antipolo, when he noticed this beautiful sunset.

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The LGBT Community prepares a “reverse-forum”, a hack for the 2016 Elections debates

by HQ on Feb 6, 2016 • Comments Closed

So by this new format, we are looking for a president who knows how to listen and understand. Genuine and authentic at talagang may tunay na malasakit.

Blog / Design Para sa Lahat / Design Travels

The Trochus Coffee Dripper by designer Brian Tenorio

by HQ on Feb 5, 2016 • Comments Closed

I get so frustrated when we import all these coffee-accessories from different countries but we don't develop our own. That's why I made this TROCHUS COFFEE DRIPPER inspired from a shell in the Philippines. Remember coffee is not just something we drink or is just beans in/from this country. There...

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The Story of Philippine Coffee

by HQ on Dec 4, 2015 • Comments Closed

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<12mn packaging design essay: "Moondust, Coffee, Brian Tenorio"

by HQ on Dec 4, 2015 • Comments Closed

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The Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce (coverage and themes)

by HQ on Dec 3, 2015 • Comments Closed

The Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce is an industry organization of businesses of, by, and for the LGBT in the Philippines. The main bottom line of the organization is good business and national economic development via the efforts of its LGBT members.

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Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce: plans ongoing

by HQ on Mar 7, 2015 • Comments Closed

March 2015 Manila: plans are ongoing in the formation and establishment of the Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce (set to be launched by 2Q 2015)

Blog / Design Para sa Lahat / In the News

Philippine Design Policy

by HQ on Oct 6, 2014 • Comments Closed

Brian Tenorio's main focus of study while with Pratt Insitute's Design Management Program is "Design Policy Initiatives in Developing Countries". This study was presented by him and his group at the Metropolitan Museum (New York City) in March 2010.

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Filipino Designers convene in 2015

by HQ on Aug 23, 2014 • Comments Closed

PDS 2015: set to be the country's first industries-driven gathering of Filipino creatives and enthusiasts in Design

Blog / Designer Tour / Fashion Design

The Anti-thesis to Glass Slippers?

by HQ on Aug 23, 2014 • Comments Closed

Putting on this pair and walking on them would certainly break the crystals and pulverize some to fine dust. So how will it be?

Blog / Design Travels / Events / In the News

Ayala Musuem exhibition — BRIAN TENORIO: Lust, Lux, Love

by HQ on Aug 23, 2014 • Comments Closed

Blog / Design Para sa Lahat / Design Travels

Bamboo Shanks in Men’s Shoes: Heritage and Contemporary-thinking

by HQ on Dec 21, 2013 • Comments Closed

Google "bamboo shank" and see how this tradition has been revisited too by some of the finest shoe-making houses in the world.

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The Mayor’s Gala of MARIKINA CITY: Design, City Branding, Heritage, and Style

by HQ on Dec 21, 2013 • Comments Closed

Can DESIGN help revive a contracting industry?

Blog / Design Para sa Lahat / In the News

RA10557: Discussion Points/Notes (Part 2) – Philippine Design Policy

by HQ on Jun 10, 2013 • No Comments

Who gets to be part of the coming Philippine DESIGN ADVISORY COUNCIL? What about the Council's responsibilities, functions, and influence? THIS IS PART 2 of my personal notes about the recently-signed RA 10557 (The Philippine Design Policy). Philippine Design Competitiveness Act of 2013

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RA10557: Discussion Points/Notes (Part 1) – Philippine Design Policy

by HQ on May 27, 2013 • 2 Comments

Some of my personal notes about the recently-signed RA 10557 (Philippine Design Policy). Congratulations to the advocates of this bill! And best wishes to The Design Center of the Philippines! Mabuhay ang Philippine Design!

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TEDx: Shoes

by HQ on Mar 19, 2012 • 2 Comments

Can shoes make us understand better? Designer Brian Tenorio argues that they can. At TEDxXavierSchool, Brian imparts his journey first as a shoe Designer, then as a Designer for development -- an empathic one for progress, for good. Be sure to watch the entire talk. Something interesting might just happen....

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I am back/here/staying.

by HQ on Mar 13, 2012 • 2 Comments

Dear friends, Only recently have I finally decided to be based again in Manila (at least for the next few years). With that, I am currently starting up several ventures: 1. TV MEDIA: a tv show about design x biz x travel (3Q 2012) 2. CULTURE: “The Last Shoemaker” –...

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Save the Pawikan

by HQ on Jan 8, 2012 • 3 Comments

“Joined the Environmental Science Society (ESS) of the Ateneo de Manila University last January 7 to 8, 2012 for their Turtle Walk at Morong, Bataan. Was with ESS alumni Mishael Dayrit-Fernandez and Jay Salvador. The experience was totally refreshing–something very new to me. It also made me think about the...

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Product Launch: LUX MORTEM URNS by BRIAN TENORIO

by HQ on Oct 31, 2011 • 2 Comments

Designer Brian Tenorio again extends his design coverage to yet another aspect of human life -- memory and remembering, as he launches designer urns via one of his lifestyle brands, Lux Mortem (www.luxmortem).

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SAVE OUR SHOES / Ayala Museum Design Talks Oct 15, 2011

by HQ on Sep 25, 2011 • 2 Comments

Bringing shoe makers, shoe manufacturers, shoe buyers and retailers, and shoe lovers together — meet one another, talk, network, build businesses together! This talk will practically be Manila’s premiere DESIGNER SHOE CONFERENCE for 2011!

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HANS ROSLING in MANILA (at his talk at the Asian Development Bank)

by HQ on Sep 20, 2011 • 2 Comments

Ted Senior Fellow, Hans Rosling, delivered a round of talks in Manila last week, September 16, 2011. After giving a talk...

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The Rise of Design

by HQ on Aug 19, 2011 • 2 Comments

By Kara Ortiga via The Philippine Star/Young Star | August 19 2011 It seems today is really the age of design. The value of the arts and good design are beginning to be recognized since the push for a bill by Senator Teofisto Guingona III suggesting the creation of a Design...

In the News / Published Works

World Filipiniana: the New Definition of Global Filipino Design

by HQ on Aug 19, 2011 • 2 Comments

by Brian Tenorio via the Philippine Star | August 29 2009 MANILA, Philippines – I was shopping once in Sydney for a nice coat for my sister. After several hours of going through different stores, I saw this Asian female with a nice top. I asked her where she got her...

In the News

The Dawn of Design

by HQ on Aug 19, 2011 • 2 Comments

By Jose Daniel Castillo via Megastyle.ph | August 11 2011 I’ve noticed that among us Filipinos (myself included) the term design tends to strike a rather exclusivist note. We seem to have this idea that things that have been designed are expensive and excessive, but more importantly that they lack in valuable,...

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Can Shoes be Political?

by HQ on Aug 18, 2011 • 2 Comments

by Brian Tenorio via Philippine Daily Inquirer | April 16, 2009 I WAS IN A CAB IN BERLIN once with the taxi driver trying to guess where I was from. After listening to him speculate if I was Japanese, Chinese or even Singaporean, I said I was from Manila. He then...

In the News

Bill Filed Creating Design Council

by HQ on Aug 18, 2011 • 2,194 Comments

By Alex Y. Vergara via Philippine Daily Inquirer | August 14 2011 Following the lead of such Asian countries as South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and even Malaysia, Senator Teofisto “TG” Guingona III filed last Tuesday Senate Bill 2930, creating the Design Council of the Philippines. The proposed Design Council, the...

Events

Brian Tenorio Delivers the First State of Philippine Design
(MAR 2011) Greenbelt

by HQ on Aug 18, 2011 • 2 Comments

Proponents of Philippine Design convene as Brian Tenorio delivers a reportage on the current situation...

Events

Ambassadors of the Philippine Brand Exhibit Curated by Brian Tenorio
(MAR 2011), Greenbelt

by HQ on Aug 18, 2011 • 2 Comments

A Cocktail Reception to launch the AMBASSADORS OF THE PHILIPPINE BRAND Exhibition 18 personalities who represent the Philippine Brand to the World, as illustrated by several of the country’s emerging...

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Designer’s Profile 2018

by HQ on Sep 21, 2018 • Comments Closed

250-word profile: Tehran-born Filipino-American Brian Tenorio is a Manila/New York-based design manager and strategic design and communications specialist. He is the CEO & Founder of design firm Brian Tenorio & Company, and cafe chain KapeTayo Coffee. He is a founding Board Member of the Communication Design Association of the Philippines. He is also the...

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To Lessen Sadness in the World

by Brian Tenorio on Mar 10, 2019 • Comments Closed

Our goal is to help lessen sadness in the world. #MindCareClub ✳️ #MentalHealth #mindfulness

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Rehab and Wellness Chain in the Philippines

by HQ on Feb 7, 2019 • Comments Closed

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Orphanage Start-up #2022

by HQ on Jan 27, 2019 • Comments Closed

Orphanage Start-up in the Philippines

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#LahatTayo

by Brian Tenorio on Dec 29, 2018 • Comments Closed

It’s 2am a few days before the new year, and it’s just occured to me how two of the brands I’ve created in the past are about inclusivity and social inclusion, without intending it to be initially so. That is a good thing, I know think — actually, very workable. And with that and with...

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Magical Bubble Coffee from KapeTayo

by HQ on Nov 18, 2018 • Comments Closed

Magical Bubble Coffee from KapeTayo, coming this 2018 December

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Creating a Culture of Compliance and Competition

by HQ on Apr 26, 2018 • Comments Closed

“Creating a Culture of Compliance and Competition” The LGBT Chamber invited to talks and industry chat by the Philippine Competition Commission Pasig City, April 25, 2018 Brian Tenorio, Chair of the Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce with the Heads and Executive Directors of the Makati Business Club, Integrity Initiative, American Chamber, European Chamber, Chinese Chamber,...

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Landi Tea – New offering from TsaaTayo Teas

by HQ on Apr 22, 2018 • Comments Closed

TsaaTayo Teas releases its newest offering, LANDI TEA – a heartwarming of Philippine Ginseng and lively herbs, all from the Philippines!

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Pearl Coffee Dripper by Brian Tenorio

by HQ on Apr 15, 2018 • Comments Closed

Just finished the design for our newest coffee piece at KapeTayo Coffee, THE PEARL COFFEE DRIPPER. This is a WIP/rendering, will be developing the actual ones soon. So excited. I love this. KapeTayo Coffee More. Filipino.