Dudes! Get your Sketchles in!

Today is the last day to post a Sketchle! Get on it! 

JOLBY WORK: Happy First Year Anniversary

Monday was the first wedding anniversary for my wife and I. We went to this ridiculous restaurant called MOTO. The best thing was the exploding cocktail, a truly mind blowing experience. Anyways for a gift I decided to make a book of fun little illustrations of our first year as married couple in a new city. It turned out pretty sweet and she loved it. Crazy awesome thing is she actually wrote me a book for my gift and I illustrated a book, too cute. Have a good day oh and Colby printed the book which turned out amazing so if you live in the San Diego county please punch him for me. Here are a couple of spreads you can go to my site to see more. Thanks

What's Up, Jolby?

Oh, you know: "Wolf" zine on the way, Pen & Ink show, a vinyl show, more Gibson guitars, apparel production, installation for Milo in San Diego. All that while the Sketchle deadline appraoches! What's up with you?

D&AD Judges Selected no Pieces of Graphic Design for Awards this Year.

Wow: "While an unprecedented six Golds were handed out at last night's D&AD awards, the Graphic Design section produced just two nominations and no pencils." Meaning that the judges found no entries worthy enough for a top-notch award like this in the category of Graphic Design. What happened? Great discussion about this here.

Via Creative Review.

Colby Work: More Paper Sailing

Corey, the lead singer of The Graduate and long-time pursuer of all things Jolby, asked me to make him a paper sailing piece and I did so thusly. It looks a lot like the first one I did that I posted not long ago, except more flags were added and lot more curling/wind-blown-action. The piece was framed in a shadow box for room and is called, "We're Sailing 2: Captain Warning & the Robo Wizards." Im not sure how many more of these I'll do, but they're fun. Happy Friday!

Sketchle Extended!

Hey everybody. Josh and I have decided to push back this week's Sketchle "Strange Seeing You Here" until next week. So keep creating and posting! It's been a busy week for us and I'm getting over a nasty case of vertigo that seems to be on its way out. So keep posting in the Sketchle Weekly topic below and we'll reveal our favorite next Friday the 23rd.

BANDS THAT WILL ROCK YOUR FACE: What Made Milwaukee Famous

So one of my best friends back home in Cali got satellite radio for his birthday and won't stop calling me and telling how amaazzzingggg it is and all the endless possibilities of new bands you can find. I tell him every time, I buy cd's and will not buy into this satellite radio he speaks of. But I do have to say he told me about a band he found and I can't stop listening to them. If you haven't heard of What Made Milwaukee Famous then you should go to their myspace and let your ears have a party. Really cool sound and the artwork has a nice feel to it. I will definitely be picking up the cd where I can listen to all the songs not just one ( that's for all you satellite radio people). Have a good day

Totally Unrelated: A Song called "Jolby"

Sing it! Just a reminder, Sketchle Weekly is still in effect and awaiting your posts (just post a link of your Sketchle into the topic and we will award the winner on Thursday night. It's not just a battle of skill; The winner could be the funniest, most clever, or just the stupidest. Basically whatever we're feeling. All in good fun.

JOSH WORK: Update on enyocreative.com

I just updated my portfolio site with two new pieces from my Seascape series I have been working on. The piece above is titled Battle of the Giants  and is a combination of 6 different boards that make up the scene. If you are interested in purchasing please email josh@enyocreative.com. I'll be make some more updates later this week so make sure you check back. Thanks and don't about forget Sketchle Weekley if you want to read about it scroll down the page I don't want to explain it again. Have a great week (fyi Mondays blow)

JOLBY WORK: Sketchle Weekly

Ok so Colby and I came with idea that we wanted to have something that people could post funny/interesting/whatever sketches on the blog. So we came up with Sketchle Weekly. Sketchle is a weekly challenge to anyone that wants to have a good time and make some funny drawings/illustration/doodles whatever you can come with based on a quote that Colby or I will post weekly. Here's how it works: Jolby will post a Sketchle Weekly topic on a Friday. You then have until the following Thursday night to post your Sketchle Weekly contribution inside that week's thread. Colby and I will then select the best Sketchles and will post our winner on the front page with credits, chest beats, praises, plugging the work, etc. Since this is the first one we wanted to give it some time so we are posting today so you basically have a week and a half to do anything your little heart wants. So the first one is - "Strange Seeing You Here" Go!!

Artists We Love: Marian Bantjes

In short, Marian Bantjes is a a hand-type master. Everything she does is math-ed out to the exact degree and then executed with precision. Her client list is beyond impressive and includes lots of projects with Stefan Sagmeister. I recently found her speaking event at Walker Art Center that is a must-see. Also, go here to find other speaking events at Walker featuring Ed Fella, Project Projects, Michael Bierut, Chip Kidd (woo), Wink, and others. Get inspired.

JOSH WORK: Tangible Worldwide Gocco Prints

So I have been working on a pretty awesome project at my job Tangible Worldwide. We are making a self promo piece that consists of Gocco prints that highlight our services in a quirky way. Here are a couple of the ones that I have done. The first two Colby helped with and they turned out amazing.

Colby Work: Zine Update

It's shaping up pretty strangely. Here's a sneak peak from another page in the zine. Mondays: Boooo.

Jolby Work: Automatic Satisfaction

We are proud to be able to show you a project that we've been working on for some time now. Automatic Satisfaction is a clothing label that came to Jolby for an identity treatment and some tees, but we ended up designing their entire collection for their debut season. The logotype was hand-crafted for AS with their mascot, "Tweet" hanging out up top. Sure to be an awesome collection and more work to come from these guys that are amazing to work with.

BANDS THAT WILL ROCK YOUR FACE: Emery

You know when you wake up singing a song and you have no clue how or why you are singing it , well that happen this morning I woke up singing an Emery song. They are a pretty awesome rock/screamo whatever you want to called it band. Always puts me in a good mood have a listen and have a good day.

Colby Work: Zine Update

As I mentioned a few days ago, I'm slowly working on a mini zine that is going to be a collection of random thoughts and inkings that are floating around in my brain. Above is a crop of one of the spreads. I'll post more as I draw them with the hopes of actually finishing it for your pretty face to see.

TATTOO

So Saturday I met with Patrick Cornolo and started on my tattoo. It turned out amazing he did a great job and it looks like I will be doing a full sleeve so I am excited to get my next tattoo. Here are some pics that my amazing wife took. Enjoy, have a great day.

Andy Frasco Tour Poster

Here's a pic of the tour poster we did for Andy's album release. Make sure you click in for a larger view. There's some rad detail on it.

Andy Frasco "Growth & Progress"

Here are some more shots of the album art we did for Andy. You can view a sharper-rez here and here. Have a great weekend. Josh is getting his tat as I type this...

Ziney Zim Zam

A few days ago, I went to watch Mark Murphy speak in Downtown San Diego at an AIGA event. The event was incredible and everything he said really hit home for me. The thing that I left with was basically this: If you want something, drop everything and make it happen or else it won't. So, for the longest time I've wanted to make a zine and I started on it last night.

It's probably going to be pretty raw and just a spatter of ideas, but I'm excited to throw myself into it even though I don't have the time to really do it right. It just needs to get done! I'll post pages as I draw them and my only teaser is that it has something to do with 'the wolf.' Definitely expect some Jolby team up inside as well. Happy Friday.