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Cobonpue: The designer boss and educator

Jan Yumul, ABS-CBN News

<figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1461417" data-ivs-floating="1"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/iframe-parent.js"></script> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script> </div></figure><p>Calmness and bright colors in mostly non-conformist shapes command the mood at The Residences in Greenbelt, Makati, where Cebu-based Kenneth Cobonpue&#x27;s The Hive showroom is located.<br/> <br/>In a visit by The Boss to the widely talked-about design space, we also got to hear Cobonpue&#x27;s education advocate voice as chair of the Industrial Design Department at the De La Salle College of St. Benilde.<br/> <br/>For an internationally celebrated and in-demand Filipino designer like Cobonpue, with royalties and some of Hollywood’s biggest stars gracing his list of clientele, it&#x27;s hard to imagine him adding more commitments to a seemingly packed list, with exhibit invitations left and right, let alone teach.<br/> <br/>But it is beyond the walls of a classroom, too, where Cobonpue aspires to revolutionize the local design curriculum.<br/> <br/>“I’m spending a lot of time with the faculty. We’re changing the curriculum to make it more adaptive to the industry, to the needs of our country,” said Cobonpue. <br/> <br/>“All of the design curriculums have been patterned after Western models and it’s different because they have an industry. Here, we’re craft-based. We generally do lower volumes,” he added.<br/> <br/>Cobonpue also suggested that the approach be “artisan”, more “form related”, and “not so much on technology” – not yet – he was quick to add, because “we don’t have it yet”. <br/> <br/>“We don&#x27;t have an industry. So, part of the key there, to face the next century, all the curriculum should be changed to suit our industry,” said Cobonpue.<br/> <br/>When asked what to him is a boss, Cobonpue said a boss should be a leader and a person who inspires other people to go beyond what they can be. <br/> <br/>But it does not end there.<br/> <br/>“I think a boss is both a mentor, a friend, somebody who allows you to reach, to allow you to always go beyond who you think you are,” said Cobonpue.</p><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="~/CMSPages/GetResource.ashx?scriptfile=~/cmsscripts/custom/abs-cbn-news/abscbnmaster/newsv2-1.2.9.min.js " type="text/javascript"></script><script src="http://cdnimages2.abs-cbnnews.com/abscbn2013-gallery/plugins/facebook/newsv2.facebook.js" type="text/javascript"></script><div id="galleria"><a href="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/lifestyle/11/23/kenneth1.jpg"><img data-description="Jan Yumul, ABS-CBN News" data-title="Cobonpue: The designer boss and educator" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/lifestyle/11/23/kenneth1.jpg"/> </a> <a href="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/lifestyle/11/23/kenneth2.jpg"><img data-description="Jan Yumul, ABS-CBN News" data-title="Cobonpue: The designer boss and educator" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/lifestyle/11/23/kenneth2.jpg"/> </a> <a href="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/lifestyle/11/23/kenneth3.jpg"><img data-description="Jan Yumul, ABS-CBN News" data-title="Cobonpue: The designer boss and educator" src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/lifestyle/11/23/kenneth3.jpg"/> </a></div><script type="text/javascript">        Galleria.loadTheme('//abscbnnewsml.blob.core.windows.net/themes/default-gallery/themes/themev2/galleria.azur.min.js');        Galleria.run('#galleria', {trueFullscreen: true, height: 673,});        </script><p>Catch &quot;The Boss&quot; every Wednesday on ANC at 7:30 p.m. Manila. Hit us up on social media by using #TheBossANC. Catch our replays on Wednesdays at 11:30 p.m.; Thursdays at 4:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.; Fridays at 11:30 a.m.; Saturdays at 4:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.</p>

<p>Calmness and bright colors in mostly non-conformist shapes command the mood at The Residences in Greenbelt, Makati, where Cebu-based Kenneth Cobonpue's The Hive showroom is located.</p>

Calmness and bright colors in mostly non-conformist shapes command the mood at The Residences in Greenbelt, Makati, where Cebu-based Kenneth Cobonpue's The Hive showroom is located.

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Cobonpue: The designer boss and educator

Jan Yumul,

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Published November 24, 2016 05:16 AM PHT

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