Five300 Brand & Culture Strategy, Honda Bay, Sta. Lourdes, Puerto Princesa (2026)

Based in Palawan, working across the Philippines.

📅 Book a FREE 30-minute strategy call Most brands are told to modernize, follow trends, and look like everyone else to succeed. We've learned something different. The businesses and places that become truly irreplaceable aren't the ones who copy. They're the ones who remember what only they can offer — and build from there. Five300 is a brand and

culture strategy studio based in Palawan. We work with local businesses, destinations, festivals, and communities who refuse to choose between thriving economically and staying rooted culturally. Our approach is Design Kwentuhan — a methodology rooted in Filipino ways of knowing. We don't arrive with a template. We gather, listen, and surface the cultural intelligence already present in your brand or community. Then we build from it. What this looks like in practice:
→ Brand strategy and identity systems for businesses ready to stop looking generic
→ Destination and festival branding for LGUs and tourism organizations
→ Community design facilitation for organizations building culture-led economies

Recognized by the DTI Design Center of the Philippines. Part of the Creative Isla Movement.

📅 Book a free 30-minute strategy call: calendly.com/five300/free

02/04/2026

A circle of creatives is gathering in Puerto Princesa this April 18 — and it is not a seminar.

Design Kwentuhan Session 3: Ginhawa in Action brings three practitioners from across the Philippines to Rurungan Compound for an honest conversation about what it means to create from ease. From who you actually are. From where you actually come from.

Three speakers. Three kwentos. One circle.

- Onix (Astrolikha Creative Spaces, Cavite) on building outside the center.
- Beth Talac (Tau't Batu cultural entrepreneur) on sovereignty.
- Marie Tabangay (Cuyo, web designer) on healing.

FREE. Open to all creatives. Slots are limited.

April 18, 2026 · 1:00 PM

Rurungan Compound, Abanico Road, Puerto Princesa City

Register: https://forms.gle/8Fzm6thgBe1jrPhs9

Organized by Creative Isla Movement in partnership with Weaving Ecosystems. Supported by Rurungan sa Tubod Foundation, Astrolikha Creative Spaces, Palawan News, and CM Studio.

30/01/2026

When I lost ₱6,000 to a fake airline, I was embarrassed.

Then I started researching and realized: this isn't just about me.

Every tourism scam in Palawan creates a ripple effect:

• Travelers lose trust in booking ANY local business online
• Real tour operators get lumped in with scammers
• Families running legitimate resorts watch bookings go to fake websites with stolen photos
• Our province's reputation takes the hit

And the cruelest part? Scammers are better at design than most honest businesses—not because they're more skilled, but because they invest in deception first.

I'm a designer. I should've known better.

But that's exactly why I'm breaking this down over 10 episodes.

If scammers can invest in lies, real businesses deserve to invest in truth.

Let's protect Palawan tourism. Starting now. 👇

HMUA: Faith Tamayo Make Up Studio

25/01/2026

Thank you for partnering with us, Palawan News! 😊🙏

22/01/2026

We're honored to announce that Design Kwentuhan Session 2: Unlearning Design is supported by the Design Center of the Philippines! 🎉

This partnership reinforces our commitment to nurturing creative communities in Palawan and connecting local designers to national design initiatives.

Join us this Saturday, January 24 at 1PM at Rurungan Compound, Abanico Rd., San Pedro, Puerto Princesa City.

⚠️ Event is FULL but waitlist is open!
Link here: https://forms.gle/WRXZy89fc3Snvqni9

FREE admission • No design background required • All backgrounds welcome

17/01/2026

We've reached capacity at 32 participants, and we're grateful for the overwhelming response from Palawan's creative community.

If you'd still like to join us, we're opening a waitlist. Should a seat become available (due to cancellations 48+ hours before the session), we'll reach out to those on the waitlist in order of registration.

Link in comments. ⬇️

Your interest means everything to this movement. Maraming salamat.

15/01/2026

The kwentuhan continues.

DESIGN KWENTUHAN SESSION 2: Unlearning Design

A session about unlearning the rules we inherited, so we can rediscover the knowledge we already had.

📅 January 24, 2026 • 1PM
📍 Rurungan Compound, Abanico Rd., San Pedro, Puerto Princesa City

✨ FREE Admission • Limited to 30 slots

This isn't just another design workshop. This is kwentuhan—a space to surface what colonial design education taught us to value and what it erased, to name where we are in our creative journey, and to physically embody unlearning through hands-on creation.

We'll explore:
- Challenging colonial design conditioning
- Reclaiming indigenous design knowledge as sophisticated methodology
- Understanding your stage in creative evolution
- Designing with ginhawa (wellbeing, ease, dignity) at the center

You'll leave with a tote bag you designed using natural materials—and a shifted perspective on what design can be when we center our own knowledge systems.

No design background required. Open for all.

⚠️ Important: Register only if you're 100% committed to attending. Every seat matters. Every empty chair means someone on the waitlist missed this opportunity.

Register here: https://forms.gle/8Lz1MDVEiVagDwiJ7

Presented by Five300 X Weaving Ecosystems
Venue partner: Rurungan Sa Tubod Foundation
Community partner: Palawan Freelancers Community
University partner: Palawan State University
Media Partners: Palawan News and CM Studio

Address

Honda Bay, Sta. Lourdes
Puerto Princesa
5300

Website

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