New Voices in Design

Twenty-four designers and makers in five categories. Start with the five we’re featuring, or pick a category above to meet everyone in it.

• Textiles + WeavingJamie Pesquiza CardenasSacramento, California
• Jewelry + AccessoriesBinata MillineryQueens, New York
• CeramicsJon and Tessy PettyjohnPansol, Laguna
• Furniture + ObjectsJed YabutValenzuela, Metro Manila
• Graphic + Type DesignJad MazaIloilo

Handloom cloth, natural dye, and the fibers Filipino weavers have worked for generations, from piña to pandan.

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Featured in Textiles + Weaving

Jamie Pesquiza Cardenas

Sacramento, California

In Sacramento, Jamie Pesquiza Cardenas grows tayum, a Philippine indigo plant, and draws the dye from it in large vats. Both of Cardenas’s grandmothers, Maria Asuncion Galinato Cardenas and Victorina Borje Pesquiza, were weavers from Santa, Ilocos Sur, and Cardenas took up the loom during the pandemic, learning from an Ilokano elder.

The signature pattern is the kusikos, a whirlpool, woven into inabel, the Ilocano handloom cloth. In October, Cardenas led two days of inabel weaving sessions on the kusikos at the Burke Museum in Seattle, and is now making Threads of Belonging, a 30-foot community fiber mural, with Pachia Lucy Vang and Ren Allathkan for the Valley High School library.

Start with the kusikos weavings on Instagram.

Instagram: @filmandfiber

Also in Textiles + Weaving

• HimayaMariton Villanueva · Quezon City, PhilippinesMariton Villanueva runs Himaya alone from a studio in Fairview, Quezon City, doing the sourcing, dyeing, sewing, and creative direction herself.Instagram
• Allyza TresvallesLucban, Quezon, PhilippinesIn May, Lucban artist Allyza Tresvalles led a weaving workshop at the Ateneo Art Gallery built around bayong bags rewoven from pandan, buri, and the plastic straps that have replaced them.Woven with Lucban weavers Arcelie Venzuela and Norma Babierra
• Jeanne F. JalandoniNew York, New YorkNew York painter Jeanne F. Jalandoni, a second-generation Filipino American, hand-embroiders piña into her canvases, including Moth Whispers, shown at the American University Museum through December 2025.
• Patis TesoroSan Pablo, Laguna, PhilippinesPatis Tesoro, who began reviving piña in 1986, was named National Artist for Design in September 2026.Instagram

Straw hats, brooches, and brass clutches, many made with artisans and goldsmiths whose craft goes back generations.

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Featured in Jewelry + Accessories

Binata Millinery

Rowell Concepcion · Ridgewood, Queens, New York

Rowell Concepcion names his straw hats for places in the Philippines, like the Makati Straw Cap and the Marikina Rolled Brim. He makes each one to order in Ridgewood, Queens, from sinamay, abaca, and pandan, Philippine fibers he sources through artisans in Rizal province, and he is developing hats in piña.

Concepcion, the son of Filipino immigrants, was born in Rancho Cucamonga, California. He trained at FIT and worked at Balenciaga and Alexander Wang before starting Binata, the Filipino word for a young bachelor, in 2020. This year he made his debut at the Smithsonian Craft Show, and Nordstrom began selling his hats.

Start with the Makati Straw Cap.

See the Makati Straw CapInstagram: @binatamillinery

Also in Jewelry + Accessories

• GoldandStones by GayleGayle Guansing · Makati, PhilippinesCavite-born jeweler Gayle Guansing showed a ring that turns into a brooch at Milano Jewelry Week in October.WebsiteInstagram
• J MäkitaloJoyce Makitalo · Metro Manila, PhilippinesJoyce Makitalo launched a men’s line of sculptural jewelry at a Greenbelt 5 pop-up in May.Made with third-generation goldsmiths in Bulacan
• Earl GariandoPasay City, PhilippinesEarl Gariando, who trained as an interior designer, brought his hand-embossed brass clutches to ArteFino this summer.Instagram

Stoneware, wood-fired vessels, and everyday mugs, from a partnership of almost fifty years in Laguna to a mug studio here in Portland.

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Featured in Ceramics

Jon and Tessy Pettyjohn

Pettyjohn Pottery · Pansol, Laguna, Philippines

At Art Fair Philippines in February, Jon and Tessy Pettyjohn filled their space in Makati with a forest of ceramic columns. The installation, Intersect, alternated his clays and glazes with hers, column by column, after almost fifty years of working side by side.

Their home and workshop are in Pansol, Laguna, at the foot of Mount Makiling, near where they have lived since 1980. Jon has fired an anagama wood kiln, which he named Musang Gama, since 2000, and Tessy works with Philippine clays, pigments, and minerals. “She’s very busisi,” Jon told Vogue Philippines, using the Tagalog word for meticulous.

Start with Intersect.

Instagram: @pettyjohnpottery

Also in Ceramics

• Hotel CeramicsPortland, OregonHotel Ceramics, a Portland studio that makes mugs in glazes including ube, held a studio sale on NE Dekum Street in June.WebsiteInstagram
• Summer Escaño AquinoAlfred, New YorkSummer Escaño Aquino, a ceramicist at Alfred University who immigrated from the Philippines, received a $15,000 Windgate-Lamar Fellowship from the Center for Craft in 2026.Instagram
• Jose Solon PerfectoTerroir Ceramics · San Juan, La Union, PhilippinesJose Solon Perfecto, who trained as a child under Jon and Tessy Pettyjohn, forages and ages his own wild clay at his workshop in San Juan, La Union.WebsiteInstagram
• Jezzel WeeQuezon City, PhilippinesJezzel Wee, who teaches at the UP College of Fine Arts, showed her stoneware Mithiin vessels with Galerie Stephanie at Art Osaka in May.Instagram

Lamps, chairs, and objects for the home, many of them named for the Filipino things that inspired them.

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Featured in Furniture + Objects

Jed Yabut

Jed Yabut Furniture and Design · Valenzuela, Metro Manila, Philippines

At Manila FAME in October, Jed Yabut introduced Talyer, a new home décor brand with a worker ant for its emblem, and showed its Mangkok and Banyera bowls. Tatler Asia picked them among the fair’s standout pieces.

Yabut studied architecture at UP Diliman and practiced in Singapore and Tokyo before coming home during the pandemic and learning furniture making at a workshop in Nueva Ecija. His Valenzuela studio, with a showroom in Makati, now makes chairs, tables, and lamps named for Filipino things, from the Bunot side table, after the coconut husk, to the Anahaw chair.

Start with the Pinya table lamp.

WebsiteInstagram: @jedyabutfurniture

Also in Furniture + Objects

• Cheyenne ConcepcionStudio Concepcion · Brooklyn, New YorkBrooklyn artist and designer Cheyenne Concepcion hung brass and steel chains like inherited necklaces at the lobby entrance of San Francisco’s Sophie Maxwell Building for Future Heirlooms.WebsiteInstagram
• JJ AcuñaBespoke Studio · Manila and Hong KongJJ Acuña, who was born in Manila and raised in Texas, designed Luz de Flores, a family of floral lamps.Hand-finished in VENZON’s Pampanga workshop
• Chini StudioChini Lichangco · Manila, PhilippinesChini Lichangco’s Kai’a Outdoor Hanging Lamp won a Red award at the Good Design Award Philippines 2026.

Typefaces, posters, jerseys, and signboards that put Filipino letterforms and symbols in front of new audiences.

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Featured in Graphic + Type Design

Jad Maza

Pavia, Iloilo, Philippines

Bantayog Sans started with the lettering on Philippine historical markers, the plaques that mark where something happened. Jad Maza drew it into a rounded typeface in seven weights with italics, and it sets Latin, Vietnamese, and Baybayin.

Maza started making fonts after a campus talk on jeepney signage. He builds his Baybayin from Unicode proposals and early Filipino Baybayin websites saved on the Wayback Machine, and he once woke in the night to draw a typeface he had dreamed. His most-downloaded font is Maragsâ, a flared serif drawn from the pakupyâ accent mark.

Start with Bantayog Sans.

See Bantayog SansInstagram: @jad.otf

Also in Graphic + Type Design

• Rich TuBrooklyn, New YorkBrooklyn designer Rich Tu worked a sampaguita, the Philippines’ national flower, into the official New York New Jersey poster for the 2026 World Cup.WebsiteInstagram
• Shayla HufanaConceptShell · Seattle, WashingtonSeattle designer Shayla Hufana drew the waling-waling orchid and the carabao into the scarf for the Sounders’ and Reign’s Filipino Heritage matches this fall.See the scarfInstagram
• LeRoid DavidElk Grove, CaliforniaLeRoid David, a second-generation Filipino American illustrator, designed the jersey for the San Francisco Giants’ 2026 Filipino Heritage Night.Instagram
• Jo MalinisType63 · Metro Manila, PhilippinesType designer Jo Malinis co-founded Type Fair Philippines, whose third edition, in Makati in November 2025, included a Filipino Type Archives exhibit.WebsiteInstagram
• Enrico BrionesCainta, Rizal, PhilippinesCainta sign painter Enrico Briones turned the jeepney route signboards he hand-letters into miniature keychains.