Jolby – new website

The extremely talented Portland, Oregon based duo of Josh Kenyon & Colby Nichols, aka Jolby (get it?), have relaunched their online portfolio. Full of lots of new fantastic illustrations and designs, maybe unaware to you, but Jolby has probably been involved with a lot of work that you interact with everyday, like Pitchfork, Urban Outfitters, Garmin and T-Mobile, just to name a few.

Visit the all new Jolby website here.

Fonts In Use – website

Fonts In Use is a recently launched website that explores and offers critical examination of the use and applications of fonts in recent design and branding. Created and curated by a team consisting of graphic and type designers, along with an historian, it basically serves as a running commentary and tool for laymen and creatives alike looking to gain insight and opinion on typography we interact with everyday.

Visit Fonts In Use here.

Studio: Push.

I recently came across the work of Orlando based design firm Push. via there superb rebranding of the Orlando Museum of Art, and a ton of great brand extensions. Push also has really great destination marketing and design for Lake Nona and for the city of Orlando itself. It’s worth visiting their site (with a new portfolio on the way soon) for examples and inspiration of quality locality, dining, and real estate branding.

Visit Push. here.

GRACE branding – Creature Studio

Seattle design firm Creature recently posted this update to their portfolio for GRACE, the Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education. I love the simple typography, symbols, and refreshing color palette. The website is also minimal and easy to use, and I love the extra design touches like the “donate” button.

See more GRACE examples on Creature’s website here.

Sveta Lambi – Kunst Type

Kunst Type is a typeface designed and drawn by Sveta Lambi. I really enjoy the obvious nod to 19th century renderings of flora and fauna. These would make fantastic drop caps for an article about the oceanography or perhaps as chapter heads for a new version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

You can see more of Kunst Type here.

Wordmark.it – website

You know, some of these bulky, clumsy-to-use font management programs like Linotype and FontFolio could learn a thing or two from the burgeoning world of online type tools and apps. Wordmark.it is a simple visualizer that helps you quickly find an appropriate font or typeface by allowing you to type in a phrase or word and showing you how it looks with all your installed fonts. It’s great if you are looking for that perfect display face or to just reacquaint yourself with your collection.

Visit Workmark.it here.

Pomo – I Am Love

One of my favorite movies of the 2010, I Am Love also had some of the most beautiful title and location typography sequences I have seen all year. What opens as an austere and frigid winter eventually blossoms into a heated, lustful spring, and the type treatments for both the movie and production credits perfectly illustrates those two worlds, so when I came across a video of the opening sequence I had to post about it. The design and calligraphy are expertly done by POMO, a small design and art direction house based in Milan. As they describe the treatments: “The result echoes both the handwritten titles of the Italian neo-Realist films of the late 1940s, and the Milanese shop signs of that period. Bellissima!”

Visit POMO’s studio website here. And also take a look at this flickr set of stills showing their work in the movie.

Heads of State

Philadelphia based Heads Of State have just re-launched their portfolio site with dozens and dozens of their fantastic designs and illustrations spanning music, science, journalism and politics.

Visit Heads of State’s website here.

weekly stimuli – vol. 34

Here’s the latest installment of Weekly Stimuli – a batch of images from my inspiration archives.

Enjoy the visuals after the jump!

weekly stimuli – vol. 33

Here’s the latest installment of Weekly Stimuli, a batch of images from my inspiration archives.

Enjoy the images after the jump!