http://momentskis.com/

I love the design of moment skis website. Great colors, great type, photos, love it all!
Heres a little bit about Moment:

In the Chinese zodiac, 2010 was the Year of the Tiger. At Moment, it felt like we adopted a full-grown one. Over the past twelve months, we’ve moved into a new factory space, doubled production, and almost tripled our staff. We’ve taken pole production to Italy, tested and approved new materials across the board, and implemented new manufacturing processes, all while designing six new adult skis, a junior ski, and a whole line of outerwear with improved fabrics and construction. Needless to say, we’re a bit weary…but we’re also stoked.

While Moment is growing, it’s the constants that make us happy. We still design with the future of skiing in mind. We still use 95% domestically sourced ingredients and FSC-certified wood cores. We still party out of bounds. And we still make every single pair by hand, right here in Reno. While you might see more square tips around than you did a year ago, rest assured: every Moment customer has been pre-screened for radness, just like you. And just like you, we’re still in it for the stoke, not the scrilla. The big-hair babes, gold watches and movie deals? That’s just for decoration.

LOST TYPE

http://losttype.com/

The Lost Type Co-Op is a Pay-What-You-Want Type foundry, the first of its kind.

Founded by Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin, originally in a whirlwind 24 hour adventure to distribute a single typeface, Lost Type has blossomed into a full fledged foundry, distributing fonts from designers all over the world, with its unique model.

Users have the opportunity to pay whatever they like for a font, you can even type in '$0' for a free download.

100% of funds from these sales go directly to the designers of the fonts, respectively.

Lost Type takes no cut of sales, and holds no funds.

Print Mag

I really love the editorial feel and look of print mag. Ties the print and web in together nicely.


These images are just images off the inspiration section in the print mag website that I wanted to share with you. Love type!

CMYK mag

http://www.cmykmag.com/

Cover to cover, the focus of CMYK Magazine is on giving our readers a truly inspiring visual experience. We fill each issue with the creative output of as many as 100 talented artists and designers at all levels of the creative talent pool. You'll see the award-winning work from designers currently in art school, recent graduates, and self-taught non-professionals -- as well as work by the most successful and sought-after creative professionals working today.

THE WORK

The Freshest Creative Hand-Picked by the Best in the Business. CMYK Magazine's quarterly Call For Aspiring Creatives is open to emerging artists across the globe in the fields of art direction, copywriting, design, photography and illustration. Each issue of CMYK Magazine features as many as 100 selections from more than 80 art-design students attending over 30 of the world’s leading art-design schools, departments and workshops. Every piece is selected for print by the industry's most influential creative professionals.

THE WORDS

While the visuals dominate in CMYK, the words we publish are just the good, inspiring ones. Goal has always been to print features that can help your career as an artist or designer, be it how-tos or reports on industry trends or innovators. This most current incarnation of CMYK asks leaders in advertising, design, illustration and photography to write, in their own words, how they have made a success out of their careers.

Artist Inspiration: Jen Avendano

Jen Avendano is an amazing illustrator/typographer. She does amazing work and gives amazing inspiration. Here are a few pieces that I find especially awesome.

to see all her work go here: http://www.janavendano.com/

UNDERWARE

For more than ten years the pan-European design collective Underware has been creating versatile fonts, surfing the waves, conducting type workshops, running the radio station Typeradio, throwing cannon balls, experimenting with blood, practicing kamikaze chess; but mostly, they gave flowers for their mothers and turned them into a cover girl. Which resulted in an everlasting smile on their faces. The company was founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki. They are based in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam.


Is Not Magazine
Is Not Magazine is published bi-monthly (more or less) as a 2m x 1.5m bill poster and pasted to the streets, laneways, cafés and bars of Melbourne, Australia since April 2005. Is Not’s format invites interaction with the city and the city’s inhabitants. It asks people to be curious, enthusiastic. Is Not is an experiment in publishing, designing and reading. Each issue features fiction and non-fiction articles, reviews, pictures, diagrams and a story that ends in another location. There are two themes per issue, as well as stories that readers can store on their camera phones. Is Not Magazine publishes writers and artists from all over the world and only uses Underware typefaces

Adobe Muse

I went to an adobe muse workshop the other day for SLC design week. All I can say is I am PUMPED. I cant believe what this new program can do. It designs for the web like Indesign designs for print. Free Beta Trial is available on Adobes website until it comes out. Im getting it!

baby sushi costume

This has nothing to do with websites or design but this costume is SO FREAK CUTE!!
This sushi costume was featured on THE MARTHA STEWART show on Friday October 14th.

This Halloween costume looks delicious! Since I craved sushi all through my pregnancy, it's only fitting that my little one be a piece of Nigiri for Halloween. ***This costume comes with the sushi grass, wasabi and ginger accessories UNATTACHED. I am happy to attach accessories to the onesie, just ask!***

This costume can be customized to your favorite sushi. Prefer salmon? No problem. Please not salmon, tuna or shrimp at checkout!

school sketchbooks made into posters

This poster was put together from student sketchbooks. We created these sketchbooks in my process class with carol sogard. Carol put these poster together. They turned out so awesome! I cant believe this is my class!

pastiched baskets

I saw these baskets on one of my design teachers blog. They are so well designed and hand crafted. Not only are these resourceful and useful but they are made in our very own Salt Lake City!

These baskets are made with reclaimed vinyl with a fabric lining. Great for small storage. Approximate size: 8 in. length, 4 in. width by 5 in. depth. Designed and handcrafted in Salt Lake City, Utah by Soorya Louder

Oh Beautiful Beer Website

This website is so clean and beautiful, I love its simplicity. It really brings the focus to whats important.

Im making a beer catalog in one of my other classes and came across this awesome website. They post on good beer branding, packaging, and logos. Uinta just came out with a re-branding of their 4 plus line which is now the Uinta Organic Line and a small re-branding of their Uinta line too. I love the texture of the new paper and the embossed compass on the bottle. They made simple changes with typefaces and look but it brought the brand up to a new level. Love it!

Upcoming Jessica Hirche lecture at UVU

Tomorrow I am going to a Jessica Hische lecture. I am so excited to hear from her, she is an amazing typographer and illustrator . I will update you all on my next post about what I learned from her lecture. In the mean time, here is some of her work!

remebering 911

this artwork was taken from the AIGA website.
http://www.aiga.org/remembering-911-then-and-now/

font of the week

Inspired in the sweet letters of calligraphy and typography masters of our past; such as Didot, Bodoni and the incredible Herb Lubalin, its aim was to incorporate the decorative accolades from blackletter and copperplate styles of calligraphy into a Modern Roman typeface.

Reina reflects sovereignty due to the enveloping atmosphere and the sensation of greatness that can be felt when using it. It has an unique way of standing over paper and screen, being its swashes responsible of an extreme elegance.

Similar to what Lian did in his last font Breathe, Reina was designed to be playful yet formal: While none of its alternates are activated it can be useful for short to medium length texts; and when the user chooses to make use of its open-type decorative glyphs, it can be useful for headlines with dazzling results.

TECHNICAL
Reina is a family with many members. In order to achieve better results when printing, Lian took his time to design the necessary styles: Reina 72 Pro, prepared for display sizes; Reina 36 Pro, for medium sizes; and Reina 12 Pro, the best for text or decorative words in small size.
Each of these members have variants inside, which are open-type programmed: The user decides which glyph to alternate, equalizing the amount of decoration wanted.

Reina Engraved Pro has the same features than the variants mentioned above.

The family also contains variants which were made exclusively for decoration. These are: Reina Words, a set of the most common words used in english, german, italian, french and spanish; Reina Capitals, which consists in a big set of ornamented capitals; and Reina Fleurons, those little friends which always help to embellish our work by combining them in the way the we want to.

design sponge

http://www.designsponge.com/

Design*Sponge is a design blog run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. It was launched in August of 2004 and is updated about 6-8 times per day. Design*Sponge attracts a diverse group of devoted readers across the globe. Design*Sponge currently has 75,000 daily readers on the main site, over 121,000 RSS readers, 315,000+ Twitter followers and 30,000 Facebook followers.

I really love this blog because of the different and diverse categories it updates. [places, spaces, before+after, DIY, entertainment, product, etc] Each category is different and unique from the other which keeps the viewer on the site longer.

One of my favorite categories is the before and after. Here is one that I really enjoyed.