The editor-in-chief of Rustan’s Supermarket sansRival Magalogue, Ige meanders the lush and layered forest of the theater, museum and cultural work, graphic design, publishing, food, travel and creative writing. His legacy started simultaneously with the Museum Department of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and while still a student at the College of Architecture and Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas.
His pioneering efforts in the field of digital art earned him top honors in the International Designers’s Network (IdN Club, Philippines) since 1998 and the very first winner in the Digital Art Category when it was first instituted in the 53rd Art Association of the Philippines Annual. In 2004 he completed the Managing the Arts Program at the Asian Institute of Management, and was a finalist in the Doreen G. Fernandez Food Writing Award.
He has designed dozens of books including A Pilgrim’s Diary and The Governor-General’s Kitchen, which won him consecutive National Book Awards for Best Design in 2005 and 2006. In 2008 his design for The Governor-General’s Kitchen also won Best Design in the Philippines and Finalist in the Best Culinary History in the Gourmand World Cookbook Award-Best in the World. He is the principal designer of Ige Ramos Design Studio (IRDS) and the Publisher of ZeusBooks, where he co-published Jessica Zafra’s Twisted 8.