I have a handful of new font releases out now via Wordshape and MyFonts.

First up: Adora Medium.

Adora Bold

Walter Tracy’s AdSans has been enjoying a resurgence in popularity over the past decade, in no small part from the digital revivals employed by Dutch designer Karel Martens. Adora is a revival of Tracy’s design, but with more attention paid to spacing and kerning for smooth text setting. It has a large x-height and reads well at small point sizes. A range of ligatures have been created for smooth text-setting and detailed display work. Two bonus modular pattern characters are included, custom-spaced so that designers can create seamless patterns to accompany typography using Adora, or to be used as a standalone design feature.

Both weights are available for immediate download from Wordshape and MyFonts.

Effete

Effete is a metropolitan titling typeface, similar in weight and proportion to fonts like Imre Reiner’s Corvinus, but both more expressive and less goofy. Available from Wordshape and MyFonts.

The Inspire Japan site just got a bit of a facelift and a backend retrofit.

Mini-documentary following the life of an ASICS Japan employee.

Really nice video review of the Open Skateboards team deck by a fellow who beats the crap out of it (and himself) while skating it.

Review: Two thumbs up – “poppy, reactive and responsive”. Good stuff!

The review includes a great primer about contemporary skateboard graphic production and why we choose to go with traditional silkscreened graphics over crappy heat transfers (which are the absolute WORST in both look and utility), which unfortunately dominate the contemporary skateboard market.

Design of modular, stackable 3D alphabet and digital typefaces for Konexi, a board game published by Zimzala Games.

Addition of map glyphs to in-house typeface family for Tokyo Art Beat’s popular bimonthly map project.

Working with the lovely folks at AQ, we designed, animated and did post-production on a series of 20+ video devices that are being used in Onitsuka Tiger’s 2011 campaign. See a sample here.

This year, I’ve been selected by Onitsuka Tiger to be one of their “ryoshi”, or hunters, presenting unique cross-sections of Japanese and Western culture.

The official blurb from Onitsuka Tiger:

MADE OF JAPAN

In 2011, Onitsuka Tiger will bring Japanese culture to the world in a way that uniquely blends arts and traditions of authentic Japan with the seductive urban design styles of the modern world.

Using talented storytellers from around the globe called Ryoshi, we will share inspiring and surprising stories that bring together Japanese and Western culture. Whether in business or the arts, in a retail space or at a festival in the forest, in music or in film, Onitsuka Tiger will be investigating and exploring the nature and results of Japanese and Western crossovers, and bringing these stories to the public, to let you know what it means to be “Made of Japan”.

Read all about it here on the Onitsuka Tiger website.

I am now being represented by Little Paper Planes in San Francisco for licensed designs to the textile industry. Here they are at the SURTEX trade show in New York repping our wares.

New Open decks out in a hot minute.

Japan Relief decks shipping now!

A number of relief projects I contributed to were featured in the latest issue of DesignNet, a Korean graphic design magazine.

The YACHT Trust has been showing a bunch of fun new contributions, including artwork inspired by the band and strategic design/branding.

Inside, more YACHT tattoos (obtained by Trust members adhering strictly to the official YACHT tattoo policy…

and some amazing non-body art.

New website up for Cross Films in lovely Seattle.

A project from ages ago that I forgot to add in to the archives, the website for Cooper the Photographer Cat!

Big thanks to Michael and Deirdre Cross for their constant support!