Cool sub-culture BSU Clothing

The Man.on.Sketchpad is a graduate of the University of the Philippines Cebu College with a degree in Fine Arts and started working with BSU (BiSag Unsa!) Clothing as designer/artist in October of 2003.

Through the electronic mail, he replied to questions in confirmation that due to customers demand, he had some designs, purposely carried out for the skaterboys in town, copied. But assured, "we do have our original skateboarding designs, and that most of these were done first in rapid sketching and related to the BSU icon."

Man.on.Sketchpad does designs influenced by image of bands - emopunk, punk rock, metal, hardcore - as he makes sure every music enthusiast would be able to sport on a shirt that would embody his or her own attitude and individuality, a garment that speaks for one's preference in music genre/style, a shirt that when pulled on would blare the essence of a cool sub-culture.

Prior to local artist "The Ambassadors" of "Ulipon" (Gugmang Gi-a**y!) fame's singing of the jingle, and DJ Ramil "Ram" Dizon of dyWF 93.1 Smash FM being picked to endorse BSU Clothing, the Man.on.Sketchpad already considered that shirts should go along with the mood of the music genre. He said that, "because performers have to be cool when in front of hundreds of music lovers - from punkistas, reggaenistas, to hiphopping crowd and to the ruling rockistas - it has been considered that music and clothing always go together like a pair.

BSU Clothing became a byword in the increasing circle of shirt wearers covering all age ranges. In the video of "The Ambassadors" for "Senseless Song" shown over MTV and MYX music channels, the artworks became an emblazoned art worn by one of the precursors in the upholding of local independent music.

This is the very reason why BSU has a variety of T-shirt designs for skaters and punk music enthusiasts as it launched products that first hogged the punkistas and its culture as a market in 2003. Right now, Man.on.Sketchpad focuses on emopunk designs exemplified in the albums and music works of The Used, Fall Out Boy, and a lot other emotional punk bands.

And since Bisrock has already come of age, there is that call to expand scope of designs to capture a broader market. New designs produced by Man.on.Sketchpad give new meanings to BSU as either 'Be Somebody Unique' which is urged by The Ambassadors, 'Bisrock Sounds Unique' as believed by DJ Ram, and Bisaya Sounds United as given meaning by this columnist, with the conviction that the effort could unite all music artists in here instead of creating an atmosphere of animosity that had stalled the evolution of local music back in the late 90s.

Today's battlecry is to be real cool in attitude, to be you in terms of music preference, to go for BSU as it comes up with a fiery design for the Bisrock-ing clans. An electric guitar set ablaze speaks of the ignited love of Cebuanos for songs composed by Bisdaks, mixed by Bisdak, sung on by Bisdaks, played on by Bisdaks. Here comes the blossoming of appreciation for a shared sub-culture that provides fruity chances and florid spaces to local talents-the very stuff out of which dreams are made, which find their appropriate shapes and forms in the hands of the Man.on.Sketchpad.

With precursors in the invention of Bisdak sound like The Ambassadors and DJ Ram who have come to fan the embers of our regional culture and pride, comes spread sketchpads of the artist behind BSU "mugna" to emblazon this shared sub-culture on every t-shirt one would purchase at its outlets either at the 2nd floor of Elizabeth Mall or at "What A Girl Wants for her MAN" at the 2nd floor of Ayala Center Cebu.

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