Baybayin Archives: 2014

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Baybayin in Facebook

Not only applies as an artistic element as we commonly see but in actual and original purpose - reading and writing. Now that we are in cyberspace through Facebook, we can now type and read baybayin in comments, status update and a lot more.

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Monday, April 14, 2014

Baybayin In Music Industry

Baybayin in music industry started in the 90's when the band AfterImage released their album 'Bagong Araw' written in baybayin as design in their album art cover. Here are the list of the artist with baybayin in their album art:

Artist: AfterImage

Album: Bagong Araw (Baybayin: ᜊᜄᜓᜅ᜔ ᜀᜍᜏ᜔)

Year: 1996

Artist: Asin

Album: Pag-ibig, Pagbabago, Pagpapatuloy...

Baybayin: ᜀᜐᜒᜈ᜔ ᜇᜎᜏᜅ᜔ᜎᜒᜊᜓᜆ᜔ ᜁᜐ (ASIN DALAWANGLIBOT ISA)

Year: 2002

Artist: Kapatid

Album: Kapatid

Year: 2006

The baybayin 'ᜃ' (Ka) is the band's logo

Artist: RPM

Album: Real Pinoy Music

Year: 2011

The baybayin 'ᜇᜉᜋ' (Ra Pa Ma) is their initials

Artist: Gary Granada

Album: The Essential Gary Granada Collection

Year: 2012(?)

Although there is a written baybayin script in this album art cover but it did not follow the syllabic way of writing the script. Instead it was written in alphabetic way which reads as Ga-A-Ra-Ya Ga-Ra-A-Na-A-Da-A. It supposed to be written as it below:

Artist: Pordalab

Album: Puso at Bayan

Year: 2016

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Baybayin Signage

Baybayin continues to penetrate commercially from printed shirts/apparels, accessories, perfumes, books and a lot more. And now the script is gaining even more exposure through business signage not only in the Philippines but in overseas as well.

The Real Bank /Location: Philippines
(Unfortunately the entity of the bank is no longer exist due to the acquisition of BDO Unibank Inc. in 2014)

Montalbo Massage Hut /Location: Philippines

Haraya Kape /Location: Philippines
(Update: Haraya Kape renamed Café Franco)

Raquel Pawnshop /Location: Philippines

Kiapo /Location: Philippines

Pepe's Kitchen /Location: UK

Pinoy Salusalo /Location: UAE
(Although the baybayin reads 'PINOYA SALUSALO' the designer of the logo explains that since baybayin has no end consonant [refering to the Traditional Method], he/she decided to leave the 'Ya' character as it is.)