Gissele Bautista

For more than a decade, I have done creative work with different advertising agencies. I first started as a graphic designer and visualizer for Adformatix in 2006. I then freelanced for almost a year as an art director with Leo Burnett, Ogilvy, Harrison Communications, and McCann Worldgroup. I joined Harrison Communications in 2007 and moved to Tribal DDB in 2010. I was invited to rejoin McCann Worldgroup in 2012. After 7 years in the agency, I was asked to move to Vietnam to work as Associate Creative Director for Cheil Worldwide and handle Samsung. I then shifted to Happiness Saigon as Head of Art.

Within years in the industry, I have helped with clients’ business wins as well as winning their trust, and I have gained awards for creative and effective work.

Aside from advertising work, I have started my own creative brand, Printed by Gissele. It's a personal project for my block printmaking work. I have also collaborated and produced designs and merch with fellow makers and doers, Brownman Surf and Nelle & Gissele Block Prints. I also work with local indie bands as a band photographer and as an online band promoter in my spare time.

I'm also a painter with several art exhibits in Manila:

• Figments - Cevio Art Haus, Pasig City - February, 2019

• _Revision - Nova Gallery, Makati City - July, 2017

• Status (Magazine) Yard Sale + Exhibit - Whitespace, Pasong Tamo, Makati City - November, 2014

• “Art in Site” - magazine launch + exhibit - Ayala Museum - January, 2009

• “Boxed 2008” - group exhibit- Cubicle Art Gallery, Pasig City - November to December 2008

• “Urban Kaleidoscope” - group exhibit - Fart Gallery, Kamuning, Q.C.) - May to June, 2007

• “Creative Soup” - group exhibit - Beato Angelico Gallery, UST, Manila - June, 2006

• “El Inidoro” (a.k.a Tremorric Angst Expressionism) - group exhibit - Beato Angelico Gallery, UST, Manila - January, 2006

• “Illusion Revolution” - group exhibit - Cubicle Art Gallery, Pasig City - August to September, 2005

You may check out my online portfolio at gisselebautista.com