“You give them an office; you get employees. You give them a gallery; you get artists.”
That’s what Melvin Mangada said about their new art-space of an office on Yakal Street.
Nothing less for TBWA\ Santiago Mangada Puno. The ad agency whose lucky star has streaked across the 2009 awards so far, moves into its new universe today. Make that its gallery, a spanking two-level, prime white space—newly renovated building of Joe Calma, related to Lor Calma, of course, and the subject of Jimmy Santiago’s heartful haggling
With the dragons, the managing partners and management committee carried symbols of Pinoy geomancy. Tong Puno, carrying company invoices danced gracefully to Jai Ho with the gays, Santiago not far behind with his precious building permits, while Melvin Mangada bore the weight of the writing instruments. The ManComm came with the benign Sto. Nino, Goldilocks mamon (not sugarless, definitely!), candies and coins.
Wearing red, carrying red and gold banners and the TBWA logo, in the company of drag queens and dragons, no way this was a drag!
