NEW YOLOBOARD 2019 INFLATABLE VIDEO FEATURES OUR BOARD DESIGN

Yoloboard just launched a new 2019 video about how easy and fun it is to ride their inflatables. The coolest part is they featured our Serenity board we drew up a few years ago that continues to be their best seller year-after-year. Shout out to Yolo’s Creative Director Jake of IWDFF for letting me go crazy on this one.

2019 YOLO INFLATABLE PREVIEWS

Guess which boards were designed by us:

New 2019 board preview: Boards 1, 2, and 6 were all drawn by Jeremy Kennedy

Boards 1, 3, 4 Drawn and designed by Jeremy Kennedy

Here’s a look at our art translated onto carbon fiber paddles…
(really loving how these turned out!)

SURF EXPO INSPIRATIONS - JAN 2019

INSPIRATION ALERT: We made our way to the Surf Expo yet again on January 12 to visit clients and see what’s happening industry wide. The show felt a little light, but there’s still always inspriation to be found. Here’s a bit of the random that grabbed us between meetings.

Luv this board…

New from Arbor

tasty gold badge under the spray on grip

Loved seeing the Igloo bus in person… so fun!

Some fun details here on the Billabong booth… want those I beams and brick.

Reef had a fun giant lifeguard stand booth

Maui Jims featured large backlit art with their colorful frames with subtle pencil drawn illustrations

Shaka brah… Sanuk always weird, but fun…

Saltwater hippy kicked their booth up a lot with tons of vintage items all around in addition to their old rusty bus that everyone loves.

Met Chelsea, the #girlboss from Sunshine State Goods… and had a great visit.

Nice lifestyle images from the crew at @sunshinestategoods

LURE TURNS 20

Our friends at Lure Design in Orlando just passed the 20 year mark in the industry and wanted to celebrate with a big bash on February 17th. It was an event attended by all. The Lure Crew of Jeff, Sarah and Paul did a really great job of sharing the greatest hits of the studio and their work in fun ways. Here's a look at what you missed minus all the people...

The cropped test prints, 20 years worth of ink on aprons and some bin art. (via lure)

The LURE lore wall featuring our friend Kelly Romano and others!

More Lure posters and ephemera (via Lure) 

Wall collage via @luredesign

Jeff, Sarah and Paul via @jennlevv

Loved the Lure Lightboxes and other signage made from screens and clamps

SURF EXPO JAN 18

Jan 20th we took in the Surf Expo and got a look at a variety of trade show setups.

Interesting use of materials. Shells, pinecones and more

Some cool decor at the O'Neill booth

Resin like wall

Surf Mobile at Vissla

Simple and effective display wall

Love them pipes

Inside the Vissla booth.digging the wall wood vibes here.

More pipeage for United By Blue

the Coolness at Howler bros never ceases.... want this board so bad.

Love the sign

Interesting brushed paint

Life is good, had a nice booth setup any store would want.

Popular daily driver for Saltwater Hippee

Giant inflatable Ape for Sun Bum

Clean laquer and frames.

Toms shoes display

New Year. New Boards. 2018.

Some new work we did for Yolo 2018 just dropped and they put together a nice video that highlights this year's new turtle board the Sugar Skull turtle painted up for your pleasure and a new Serenity colorway design. Enjoy!

Yolo Celebrates 10 years

Love that our art for the 2017 board line is featured so prominently in all their new videos. The Serenity, Polynesian, Turtle bay and Namaste were all designed by Jeremy Kennedy in collaboration with our friend and Yolo Creative Director Jake Meyer of Iwdff.

YOLOBOARD 2017 RELEASES ARE IN!

Yoloboard just released their 2017 boards and 3 of our designs
are among their top features.

(Photos by IWDFF & Yoloboard)

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Serenity for Yoloboard

The Serenity is a pattern rich yoga & sealife-lotus-loving hand-drawn board. One of the coolest features is the subtle patterned stain look we've been wanting to do with them since about 2014... finally got the manufacturing there. Enjoy.

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The Polynesian for Yoloboard

The Polynesian board is this year's tattoo-inspired offering. Again, we were finally able to get the transparent stain/ink look we've been wanting to do for the last few years.

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Turtle Bay for Yoloboard

The Turtle Bay design is a water colored take on the yearly turtles we've been doing for Yolo. Always love a chance to do some drippy and trippy art. These design files were so large that nearly broke all the studio's computers to get it right. The end result was definitely worth the headaches. The board also features our hand-drawn logos and taglines.

SURF EXPO - JAN 2017

Here's a look at some random inspirations we spotted between client meetings at January's Surf Expo. The show seemed a bit smaller than years past, but there's still always heaps of inspiration around.

Wheat paste graphic application from Herschel

Surf art in progress

Odds and Ends and a nice signature sign for O'neill's collection

Cool industrial table for Stance.

Nice simple wall canvases for Reef. (we really like the backwards R) 

Digging the inset logos for Bote's new Gatorshield Series

Boat always "Stands Apart" from the other SUP brands with a larger than life booth and cool displays and details.

Roark's booth featured images and vibes from their recent trip through Russia.

Digging this tasty rope type for Dark Seas.

Corkcicle had a really nice booth, although they were too busy on the inside to take a decent photo of all the sweet details.

Here's a sample of "Fruit buoys", one of our upcoming releases for Jetty's next season.

Tagless is usually the way to go, but we can make an exception for John's tastefully simple tags for the wovens.

Our friends at Jetty always know how to show off their cool salvage finds

The Hippy Tree booth featured a giant teepee                                                       

Interesting way to attach banner panels.

Fun art for Sanuko

Resin art panels for VIssla

Digging this vintage inspired sign

SURF EXPO - SEPT 2016

Here are some inspirations from around the show floor from the latest Surf Expo. 

Poppy colors and nice finishes

foils and transparency

Cool details

Pizzas are everywhere, even tubes

Boards presented like a gallery

Simple but fun pattern soft SUPs

Always got to pay my friends at Jetty a visit. They always decorate with the coolest salvage materials you want to steal.

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HERE ARE  A FEW TEES WE DREW UP FOR 2017

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Drawing by Jeremy Kennedy

Drawing by Jeremy Kennedy

Design by Jeremy Kennedy

Design by Jeremy Kennedy

Design by Jeremy Kennedy

Design by Jeremy Kennedy

"Eastablished" in thread 

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A dirty tee from Roark

Cool I-beam construction and nice materials. Also digging the painted "Summer" title

Bote flipped the standard SUP booth and mounted boards horizontally, chopped boards in half and even made a few into tables around the booth.

Repurposed boards turned in to tables

Lighted displays was a nice touch

Mini gallery wall

Stumbed upon this rat rod woody

SEASUPGO - GRAND OPENING

On May 14th, my boys and I  headed south to Vero Beach to celebrate the grand opening of one of our client's new paddle & surf shop, SeaSupGo. Earlier this year we developed their new logo, signage and other materials they'd need for the shop in preparation for their move from the Savannah Georgia area down to Vero beach. It was nice to the see the logo around the shop on all kinds of merch like hats and tees.

The Grand Openging event was low-key, but there was a steady stream of people checking things out, buying merch, sampling the snacks and taking the Bote paddle boards out for a spin.

It was a fun day. It's nice to get out of town every now and then. Congrats again to Jen and Barrett on opening the SeaSupGo shop..