Adonis Durado is a Filipino
poet
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,
visual journalist, and
graphic designer
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of
Cebuano descent. He was born on August 25, 1975, in
Cebu City
Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Sugbo; fil, Lungsod ng Cebu; hil, Dakbanwa sang Sugbo), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines and capital of the Cebu Province. A ...
,
Philippines
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* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
. He is a fine arts graduate from the University of San Carlos. In 2017, he received the Knight Fellowship from the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Visual Communication within Ohio University's Scripp's College of Communication.
Literature
Durado has published four books of
Cebuano poems. His recent collection ''To Whom It May Not Concern (Pahinungod sa Di Hintungdan)'' was a finalist of the 2019 International Book Awards.
According to National Artist for Literature
Resil Mojares
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Works
Awards
* 2000: Lacaba Prize for Cebuano Poetry
* 2002: Faigao Prize (University of San Carlos - Cebuano Studies Center)
* 2012: Writer of the Year (Bathalad Inc.)
* 2017: VisCom Knight Fellowship (Ohio University)
* 2017: NCCA Writers' Prize
* 2019: Grand Prize, 39th Cebu Popular Music Festival for "Hugot Pas Huot" (Lyricist)
* 2019: International Book Award Finalist for ''To Whom It May Not Concern''
* 2019: Second Prize, 1st Visayan Music Awards for "Balitaw" (Lyricist)
* 2019: Vicente Ranudo Literary Excellence Award
* 2022: 1st Prize, Bienvenido Lumbera Prize for Cebuano Poetry
Design
As designer, illustrator, and art director, Durado's work has won international honors from the
Society for News Design
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, the Society of Publication Designers,
the Society of Illustrators
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History
Founding
The Society of I ...
, the
Type Director's Club, the
Malofiej Infographics Awards,
, Creative Quarterly Journal, and
HOW Design Magazine.
Durado helped launch and redesign more than a dozen magazine and newspaper titles in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and had served as a speaker to design conferences in the United States, Turkey, Ukraine, UAE, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.
His works are featured and cited in the books and periodicals, including ''The Newspaper Designer's Handbook'' (7th Edition / McGraw-Hill), ''All About Mags'' (Sendpoints Publishing), ''Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success'' (How Books).
Notes
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Living people
1975 births
People from Cebu City
University of San Carlos alumni
21st-century Filipino poets
Filipino illustrators
Artists from Cebu
Writers from Cebu
Filipino male poets
21st-century male writers