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Product · Naming · Brand · Product design · Build · 2026 · manyloom.com
A workspace for small businesses. You drop in notes, emails and to-dos, and Loomy, its AI assistant, sorts them into tasks, clients, invoices and a calendar.
A small business keeps its work all over the place: notes in one app, clients in another, invoices in a spreadsheet, dates in a calendar. A good part of the week goes into moving things from one to the other.
Manyloom puts it all in one place. We came up with the name, made the brand, designed the app and wrote the code, including Loomy, the assistant that sorts incoming work into tasks and asks the owner before it does anything important.
A woven mark. The mark is a small square of plain weave, three teal threads one way and three coral threads the other. The name is set in lowercase Bricolage Grotesque, and the app uses Hanken Grotesk. There are two themes, a dark one called Aurora and a light one called Cloud Dancer.
Components and motion. One set of components works in both themes. Numbers use tabular figures, so amounts line up in a column. When the logo appears, it weaves itself thread by thread.
The app. The home screen, Now, shows three things to do today and what Loomy handled overnight. Drop it in turns a messy list into tasks, dates and a budget. Loomy does the routine work on its own and asks before anything that matters. Money is tracked by project and by client.
On paper. Business cards for both themes, a letterhead and a receipt, and the weave turned into a pattern for merch.
Launch. The landing page, the welcome email and a weekly summary from Loomy, and short reels for social media.
Story world · App · Concept · Story world · Brand · Illustration direction · App design · 2026–27 · Launching January 2027
An illustrated story for children that runs for a whole year. A new episode comes out every Saturday, in English and French.
A small spark falls from the sky in January and needs a whole year to get home. The Frost is after him, and a girl named Mira keeps him warm with her lantern while the days get longer. Families read one episode every Saturday, at bedtime.
We wrote the world, drew the brand, set up how the paintings are made, and designed the weekly letter and the reading app. Every choice was checked against one question: will a child want to hear the next episode?
A map of the year. The story follows a road from a winter house to the star the Spark fell from. Each month covers one stretch of it, with a stop every Saturday. Every episode has its own painting, and all of them are made from the same character references, so the faces stay the same all year.
The Spark. The wordmark is drawn from Alegreya, like a film title. The Spark mark was redrawn from the painted character and simplified until it still reads as an app icon. The colours are night blue, snow, gold and ember.
Design system. Colours for four reading modes: painted day, painted evening, engraving and dim paper. Every text colour is checked for contrast against its background. The 64 icons are all objects from the story, like a tent for Tonight and a lantern for Listen.
The app. Designed for iPhone and iPad, for the end of the day. It opens on tonight's stop on the month's road. The reader plays narration with the words highlighted and has a warm evening paper. Parents' settings sit behind a door that takes a grown-up to open.
A letter every Saturday. From the Road goes out with each episode, in English and French. It has the episode's painting, its first lines, how far along the month's road the story is, and one question for the family to talk about.
Editorial system · Editorial system · Design · Build · 2026 · 8pb.ca
A magazine about Burnaby. One issue a month, eight stories, and an editor reads every one before it goes out.
Local papers have been shrinking for years, and city history is usually the first thing they drop. 8 Pages Burnaby publishes eight stories a month about the people and places of one city. The July issue, The Overlooked, was about the ones Burnaby had forgotten.
AI agents help with research, first drafts, photos and search. An editor reads, rewrites and approves every story before it is published. We designed the masthead, the typography and the website, and set up how the newsroom works.
The 8. The masthead pairs Playfair Display with an 8 made of two rings, one ochre and one teal. It works reversed on charcoal and is still clear at favicon size.
Magazine type. Headlines are in Playfair Display, standfirsts and quotes in Cormorant Garamond italic, and everything else in Source Sans 3. Every story opens with a drop cap. The colours are muted teal, ochre and charcoal on light sand.
The website. Each issue opens with its lead story at full width and the rest below it. Stories are set in a single column that is easy to read on a phone. The archive keeps every past issue as a numbered card.
An editor on every story. Agents suggest topics, research them, write first drafts and find photos. At each step the editor approves the work, sends it back or rewrites it, and a story goes live only after the final sign-off.