Tina Bonoan
Bio
Tina Bonoan is an accomplished architect and product designer with comprehensive experience in Architecture and Interiors, furniture and furnishings, houseware and jewelry design. She is a licensed architect with a degree from the University of the Philippines. While working in the Design Center Philippines from 1984-1987, she broke new grounds in the field of exhibition and product design. From 1988-1994, Bonoan joined Taller Natural, S.A.–Centro de Diseno in Madrid, Spain, where she cultivated a style that imprinted her modernist virtues in interior and furniture design for international clients, primarily in residential, hospitality and institutional projects.
Upon her return to the Philippines, she established a design oriented furniture-export company, Diseño En Asia, Inc., with innovative rattan furniture and natural shell lighting fixtures. In 1999, she embarked on architectural journalism and created the foremost design magazine for professionals, Bluprint, under the group, Mega Magazine Publications, Inc. (presently known as ONE MEGA Group, Inc). As its editor in chief from 1999-2002, the magazine occupied the firmament as the premier design sourcebook in the country. During the same period, she founded another publication, My Home, a consumer magazine on residential interiors. In 2002, she became a design consultant to CITEM (Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions) Manila’s Manila FAME Gift Fair.
Bonoan was a member of the Board of Directors of the University of the Philippines College of Architecture Alumni Association from 2003-2007. She also served as Vice President of the Heritage Conservation Society from 2002-2004.
From then on, Bonoan focused on her skills on interior design and architecture with residential and hospitality projects in the Philippines. She made her return to product and furniture design, managing the Cebu–based, furniture export company, Swambi, Inc. from 2002-2008. Consummating her entry into the design world, Bonoan explored jewelry design with her cutting edge collections using silver and our indigenous rattan vines. In recent years, she filled the need for unique floral design for special events with Comfortscape, Inc.
Bonoan continues to center on one-of-a-kind projects that require her unique, creative, modern Filipino touch.
Tina Bonoan is an accomplished architect and product designer with comprehensive experience in Architecture and Interiors, furniture and furnishings, houseware and jewelry design. She is a licensed architect with a degree from the University of the Philippines. While working in the Design Center Philippines from 1984-1987, she broke new grounds in the field of exhibition and product design. From 1988-1994, Bonoan joined Taller Natural, S.A.–Centro de Diseno in Madrid, Spain, where she cultivated a style that imprinted her modernist virtues in interior and furniture design for international clients, primarily in residential, hospitality and institutional projects.
Upon her return to the Philippines, she established a design oriented furniture-export company, Diseño En Asia, Inc., with innovative rattan furniture and natural shell lighting fixtures. In 1999, she embarked on architectural journalism and created the foremost design magazine for professionals, Bluprint, under the group, Mega Magazine Publications, Inc. (presently known as ONE MEGA Group, Inc). As its editor in chief from 1999-2002, the magazine occupied the firmament as the premier design sourcebook in the country. During the same period, she founded another publication, My Home, a consumer magazine on residential interiors. In 2002, she became a design consultant to CITEM (Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions) Manila’s Manila FAME Gift Fair.
Bonoan was a member of the Board of Directors of the University of the Philippines College of Architecture Alumni Association from 2003-2007. She also served as Vice President of the Heritage Conservation Society from 2002-2004.
From then on, Bonoan focused on her skills on interior design and architecture with residential and hospitality projects in the Philippines. She made her return to product and furniture design, managing the Cebu–based, furniture export company, Swambi, Inc. from 2002-2008. Consummating her entry into the design world, Bonoan explored jewelry design with her cutting edge collections using silver and our indigenous rattan vines. In recent years, she filled the need for unique floral design for special events with Comfortscape, Inc.
Bonoan continues to center on one-of-a-kind projects that require her unique, creative, modern Filipino touch.
