New Work: The Arbor Lodge
When you live in Portland, chances are your neighbors could be doing something incredible and you’d be none-the-wiser. Enter Josh’s neighbors who opened a brand new coffee and community space called The Arbor Lodge. They approached us to create the identity system for the shop which is made up of the main type (top) and the stamp that’s on their cups (bottom) with the logo mark.
The shop itself is beautiful and the barristas are great. They serve our favorite Portland coffee, Coava, and have delicious pastries, too. If you’re in North Portland make sure you drop by check them out. We’ll post pics of the project soon.
We’re Speaking at DesignCamp in MLPS
This October we will be speaking to attendees at AIGA Minnesota’s Design Camp 2011 which “is their premiere event and the largest regional conference in the country.” Other speakers include the very talented Peter Buchanan-Smith, Jamie Koval, Michael Osborne, and Jan Wilker. We are honored to be listed amongst such great people.
The Design Camp will focus on “Character” - the very essence of who we are as individuals and designers. The conference will run from Septemer 30th until October 2nd and will take place at the Grand View Lodge in Nisswa, MN. Get your butts over to their site and register! Hope to see you there.
Are you in Minneapolis? Got any tips for us on our visit? Let us know.
HOW Promotional Design Awards!
We are so honored to be included in HOW’s 2011 Self-Promotion Design Annual! The piece that got in was a screen print (printed by Seizure Palace) we sent out at the start of the year to introduce ourselves to a selection of great people that we wanted to work with. The results were great and we couldn’t be happier to have been included in this annual amongst such great talent! We are also going to be included in 3x3’s Children’s Illustration annual for The King’s 6th Finger. Bonkers! So humbled.
New Project: Muppets Joke Book!
We are thrilled to announce a project of ours that will be coming out very soon: A Muppets Joke Book! Yea, as in THE Muppets. We got a call from Little Brown & Company and they wanted us to work on this top secret project. So, over the past few months we have been working with the beloved Muppets franchise drawing, designing, and assembling this 206 page joke book. We’re excited to start showing it off finally! It’s to be released this Fall along with the movie. I want to end this post with a classic Fozzie joke, but my fingers won’t let me (we’ve had our fill of Fozzie jokes after making the book). Keep your eyes peeled for it!
Update City, USA
Hey everyone! It’s been a while, we know. We promise we’re still here and working hard on new stuff. Here’s what’s going on in Jolby-land: 1. We’re moving to a new studio space with our friends Scribbletone & Chris Forrette. 2. Poketo turned our wallet into a mousepad (above). 3. We’re working on lots of stuff that we’ll be posting soon, so stay tuned!
Hopworks BikeBar Opening
Hopworks Urban Brewery is an awesome brewpub in Portland that opened its second location this week catering to bikers commuting up one of Portland’s main streets. We were commissioned by Astrogirl to make a backdrop for a part the Hopworks BikeBar opening event that people could snag a photo in front of to celebrate the opening. The backdrop has our biker totem from a screen print we did as well as a cool sun/gear pattern in the background. Check out the photos (by DA Booth)! We love their beer and were stoked/honored to be a part of the opening.
Rad Dad Father’s Day Sale
Is your dad rad? Prove it! We’re giving you 15% off your entire order on our Etsy shop for Father’s Day. Show your dad his radness and head over to our shop. Offer ends June 16th.
New Work: TWOTHIRDS x Oceana x Jolby Bluefin Tuna Tee
We were invited by TWOTHIRDS (surf-inspired apparel brand out of Spain) & Oceana (ocean conservatists) to create a shirt and a print celebrating the endangered Bluefin Tuna. Our piece focuses on the absense of the fish from our world’s oceans if we don’t do something about it. See more close-ups on our site. The first opening of the exhibition “Bluefin Artist Series” will be on the 10th of June at the concept store Noventa Grados in San Sebastian, Spain with an art auction in the summer at Christie’s to follow. More info on where to purchase soon!
Inspired: Lost Type
“The Lost Type Co-Op is a Pay-What-You-Want Type Foundry, the first of it’s kind.” Some sweet fonts and a great idea. www.losttype.com (via Eight Hour Day)
Nonsek Shirt Competition!
To celebrate the launch of our artist channel on Nonsek, we want to see what you can do with it! The best tee (voted on by us) will win a 15% off coupon to use at Nonsek. 2 runner-ups will get a 10% off coupon. Here’s what you do:
1: Go to our artists channel on Nonsek.
2: Remix and mash to your hearts content!
3: Click “BUY” and you’ll get a link to share on twitter (you don’t have to actually purchase the design)
4: Tag @jolbyandfriends & @nonsek in your tweet and cross your fingers!
Winners will be chosen on April 24th, so get clickin’!
Jolby X Nonsek
Nonsek is an art, graphics and brand remixer. Their remix machine generates rare and random graphic remixes with a simple click of a button. They recently invited us to produce original art for our own channel where you can remix over 30 different bits of art to make a one-of-a-kind tee. Head over to their site and get mixing!
Etsy Feature & Interview
We’re featured sellers on Etsy today! So stoked for this honored slot. They did a nice interview with us and posted some pics of our space. Take a moment and dive into our brains. Read the interview here. Photos by the lovely Ashley Forrette.
Speaking Event at Oregon State University
Josh and I were invited to speak at OSU as visting artists by our pal Joe Carolino. We are honored to have been invited and are stoked. We’ll be talking about the importance of collaboration, why we like telling stories, and more. Q&A to follow. Come join us!
Jolby Visiting Artist Talk
Wednesday, March 9 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Oregon State University Fairbanks 104 Corvallis, OR
RSVP on Facebook
New Print Set & Wallet for Poketo
*UPDATE: Poketo interviewed us, too! You can read it here.
We are very excited to share with you a wallet created with and for Poketo! We’ve also made the art available as a print set. Working with them was awesome and we love everything that they do. View the wallet -or- View the print set.
Shelf Life 2 Art Show Opening
We have four pieces in an upcoming show at Together Gallery called Shelf Life 2 that’s packed with some crazy good people. Come check it out if you’re in Portland. Opening night Saturday March 5th from 6pm till late. www.togethergallery.com
