Adonis Durado

Adonis Durado is an award-winning Cebuano poet, illustrator, and graphic designer. He was born on August 25, 1975, in Cebu City, Philippines. He is a fine arts graduate from the University of San Carlos, Philippines and was awarded the 2017 VisCom Knight fellowship^[1] in Ohio University.

He has published four books of Cebuano poetry, Dili Tanang Matagak Mahagbong,^[2] Minugbo Alang sa Mugbo og Kalipay,^[3] Lisay sa Bugan,^[4] and Pahinungod sa Di Hintungdan.^[5] He was the recipient of 2017 NCCA Writers' Prize^[6] and the Emmanuel Lacaba Prize^[7] (2000) awarded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.^[8] He also received the "Outstanding Young Cebuano Writer" from the USC-Cebuano Studies Center in 2002 and "Writer of the Year Award" by BATHALAD literary group in 2012.^[9]

As designer and art director, Durado's work has won international honors from the Society for News Design,^[10] the Society of Publication Designers,^[11] the Society of Illustrators, the Type Director's Club,^[12] the Malofiej Infographics Awards,^[13] Communication Arts Magazine, Creative Quarterly Journal,^[14] and HOW Design Magazine.^[15]

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 speaker to design conferences^[16] 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^[17] (7th Edition / McGraw-Hill), All About Mags^[18] (Sendpoints Publishing), Creative Anarchy: How to Break the Rules of Graphic Design for Creative Success^[19] (How Books).

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