ACT!, the solo recording project of Toronto-based musician and producer David Psutka released the LP Face to Face, Day by Day on Halocline Trance in August 2024.

From Halocline Trance:

With improvisation and happy accidents at its core, Psutka put his faith in oblique occurrences, letting them lead, with no idea where he’d end up. Across calm sea rock, treacle-toned rich vox, liquid guitar, jazzy sax, vintage electronics and modern sonics, the pleasing results are unconventionally coherent.

The cover was designed by Olenka Szymonski and features original artworks from May Truong and Andreas Nicolas Fischer of Studio A N F. The title is set in Ready Clouded, echoing the generative stone-like artifacts of the images, paired with a yet unidentified sans-serif typeface [edit: it’s ABC Normal, see comments] in Regular and Bold for all other info.

Detail from back cover

Detail from back cover

Clear vinyl

Stepping into the Spoiled Parrot is like entering a candy-colored dream, where retro nostalgia meets gilded elegance. We named this confectionery and ice cream spot inside the Tin Building by Jean-Georges after a stanza from a Rumi poem which goes “I am a spoiled parrot who eats only candy. I have no interest in bitter food.”

We designed the identity and packaging to be independent of the Tin Building brand, while nesting comfortably under the same roof. Custom-stamped chocolate bars and luxurious details befit the elegance of the space, while multi-hued geometric shapes represent flavor profiles (and the feathers of a certain parrot who has escaped his golden cage to indulge his sweet tooth).

The feathers subtly mimic the archways of the space’s Deco interior, while IvyMode leans into this era in time, but in a contemporary light. We stretched it to 75% width and in our opinion, it works surprisingly well. Uomo Piccolo has a playful warmth yet utilitarian quality that anchors the typographic system and labeling convention as a whole.

Label and packaging design for Chilean coffee brand Café Luz. The brand imports its coffee directly from Colombia to Chile, where it’s carefully toasted by hand. This process leads to an outstanding flavor and a properly crafted product. The design was meant to be a colorful expression of Colombian’s coffee beans, flowers, and landscapes. The system consists of one unique packaging plus several labels for each of the different styles of coffee: exotic, decaf and premium.

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Diablas is the nickname of the Chilean Women’s national field hockey team.

We were commissioned to develop a visual identity for the team, and for this project we worked closely with the type designers Miguel Hernández and Tania Chacana who let us use their font Uomo as the main visual element of the identity.

We made custom adjustments of some of the characters and styles of this font exclusively for this project, developing a playful yet competitive image based on this nickname of the sports team — “diablas” is the feminine noun for “devils”.

The font was used extensively in all of the team’s applications, ranging from digital imagery to the official clothing.