Seasons Catering is known in Santa Barbara and beyond for uncompromising quality, custom menu creativity, and an obsession with local, seasonal, incredible food. They came to Forner seeking an unmistakable identity to match. With a delectable logomark, a balance of bold and refined elements, and a juicy palette, we created a fresh and enticing brand world.
We love seeing the @primallypure suite grow. Our rebrand captured their soil-to-skin ethos of getting back to beauty basics and reconnecting to the earth beneath our feet. That mindfulness guided our material choices: compostable pulp, recyclable glass, and eco-friendly aluminum
Skora bodycare corrects sun damage and protects from photoaging with astaxanthin, nature’s strongest antioxidant. Addressing past, present and future factors to enhance longevity, Skora restores skin health today, for all your tomorrows.
Seeing benefits through a creative lens, we uncovered astaxanthin’s superpower—the ability to travel through time, repairing and protecting skin. Leveraging this ingredient story, we positioned Skora as “bodycare for past, present & future.”
To disrupt an increasingly clinical category, we set Skora’s sci-fi story in a sensuous world and selected a single astaxanthin-inspired red for dramatic contrast. The brand’s tagline “Live Many Lives” speaks to longevity, stewarding skin safely through the different eras of a full lifetime. We explored themes of timeline jumping, narrative identity and personal reinvention in deep storytelling throughout the identity, from the submark’s hourglass shape to staggered text representing movement through time, and a photo treatment with an archival feel.
Along with tortoiseshell accents symbolizing protection, product names enrich packaging: First Edition, Driving Gloves, Hydra, Guardian and Vénusienne.
In the houseplant care aisle, liquid fertilisers typically announce themselves through earthy greens, rustic browns and photographic close-ups of thriving foliage. The visual language speaks to function and reliability, positioning these products as practical gardening aids rather than objects worthy of display. @growbleume , a new liquid fertiliser brand, takes a different approach entirely. Working with Los Angeles-based creative studio @forner.studio , the brand sidesteps conventional plant care aesthetics in favour of something more atmospheric.
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As Ventura’s celebration destination, Palomino (@palomino_ventura ) is dedicated to the art of gathering. With local, seasonal fare and unexpected moments of delight, Palomino brings warmth and freshness to every special event.
The logo captures an ethos of elegance through elevated letterforms with confident, structured angles. A subtle organic pattern hints at the greenery of Palomino’s outdoor space, while blind embosses and foils add a layer of sophistication to print collateral. Heart-centered messaging infuses a celebratory quality with a touch of whimsy.
With Emmers, Zy, and their monster friends, children learn to navigate big feelings. A fun-first strategy led us to suggest moving away from the realism of initial sketches to design lovable papercraft monsters with big personalities.
We worked closely with our team and the brand founder to make sure the 3D monsters conveyed clear emotion in facial expressions while engaging imaginations and moving gameplay forward. Then, we designed out the full game—board, cards, and boxes—bringing playful energy to each element. @emmershq
Creative Direction, Design & Character Development: Kati Forner
Creative Direction, Strategy & Messaging: Allison Dobkin @mysteriesabound
Account Direction & Theme Song: TJ Tambellini @thisisnow_here
Character Development & 3D Renderings: Ari Tiquet
Design: Alex Walker @alexandrawalker.design
Photography: Bre Furlong @brefurlong
Animation: Victor Gonzalez
Game Development: Melanie Sperling & Creative Fold
Once Upon A Feeling, Forner joined a founder’s quest to equip children with emotional skills through the power of play. From character development and game design, to strategy and identity, we went all in on bringing the weeeeeird & wonderful world of Emmers @emmershq to life.
We captured a playful spirit in our tagline and manifesto, and brought it to life in the Emmers logo with color, texture, and personality—each letter, a mini world of its own. Throughout the identity, creativity meets warmth in playful layouts with a bold, fun palette. Fashioned from cut and folded paper, the characters embody the joy and creativity of kid’s crafts, a design element threaded throughout the identity.
Creative Direction, Design & Character Development: Kati Forner
Creative Direction, Strategy & Messaging: Allison Dobkin @mysteriesabound
Account Direction & Theme Song: TJ Tambellini @thisisnow_here
Character Development & 3D Renderings: Ari Tiquet
Design: Alex Walker @alexandrawalker.design
Photography: Bre Furlong @brefurlong
Animation: Victor Gonzalez
Game Development: Melanie Sperling & Creative Fold
@ecoglo asked Forner to bring a luxurious aesthetic to their high performance cosmetics and skin-supporting tools made with organic ingredients and sustainable materials.
To blend high-performance and sustainability, we created Tomorrow Beauty: a future-forward ethos mixing innovation with imagination. With wow-factor forms, bold typography and a delicate touch, we conveyed a new era of clean beauty.
Launching soon. @amani.com.mx is Mexico’s online destination for cultivating inner beauty, delivering the ultimate curation of product and content for considered wellness journeys. They came to Forner to help them create a brand experience that inspires and empowers wellbeing. From strategy, design, and messaging to art direction and web design, we crafted an elevated, immersive world for the digital space and beyond.
