The heat is on

MANILA, Philippines - Artist Abi Goy‘s aesthetic mixes rock and roll with the romantic and the fantastic. The fine arts graduate from the University of the Philippines Diliman, who is also a member of Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan and the head of her own design company Studio Dialogo, lists Barnaby Ward, Tomer Hanuka, Tadahiro Uesugi, Alphonse Mucha, and Maxfield Parrish as her artistic influences, and she also holds in high esteem Filipino artists AJ Omandac, Louie Cordero, Dex Fernandez, Zeus Bascon, and design team Electrolychee.

Goy applies her “sometimes odd, always relaxed” artistic method to YStyle’s April logo. The delicacy of her artwork’s clean lines diffuse none of Goy’s intent to put into illustration the maddening effect of the season’s humidity. The oddity is there, too, in her use of summery hues, the placid koi, the bubbling froth of water. “We struggle with the heat during summer,” she explains her design. “What if, whenever someone complains about the heat, something cool comes out?”

Check out www.abigoy.com and Studio Dialogo’s website www.dialogo.com.