Archive for the ‘ Sketchbook ’ Category
We continue working on ideas for alfalfa seeds upcoming collection 7 Days of the Week. This is an interesting challenge. How do you capture the essence of one day of the week using only typography or lettering and color as your main design element. For Tuesday, we invited our friends at MyOrgangeBox to contribute. [ READ MORE ]
In May 2008, The Philip Johnson Glass House and Moleskine® launched a partnership to produce a custom sketchbook and an online gallery of sketches inspired by the Glass House’s unique power of place and role as a source of inspiration for architects, designers and artists. The Glass House sketchbook features 29 sketches by various architects, designers [ READ MORE ]
We want to share some of the original sketches that lead to the logo for Primo. For a few days, the alfalfa studio team worked closely with our client, YoyoFactory, to come up with the ideal solution to brand this unique, collectible toy. [ READ MORE ]
We continue our typographic experiments trying to capture the mood of every day of the week. Today is Saturday’s turn. [ READ MORE ]
These sketches are part of ongoing typographic experiments at the studio. With this series we are trying to capture the mood of every day of the week via hand lettering. [ READ MORE ]
“Me encantaría saber de ti” (I’d love to hear from you) is a phrase I’ve said in my head at those times when, all of the sudden, the image of someone from the past invades my mind. “I’d love to hear from you” is a sketch that attempts to capture that fleeting moment when your poetic [ READ MORE ]
Hopscotch is played with a pebble that you move with the tip of your toe. The things you need: a sidewalk, a pebble, a toe, and a pretty chalk drawing, preferably in colors. On top is Heaven, on the bottom is Earth, it’s very hard to get the pebble up to Heaven, you almost always [ READ MORE ]
It’s been said many times: it takes only a word, a scent, a color, a sound, or a shape to transport you. For me, the curve of a mountain, sensuous like the human body and as fresh as full lips, brings to mind the Sonoran Sierra Madre. A bright tone of yellow evokes the unrelenting sun [ READ MORE ]