Architects and designers have adapted to the digitization of the creative process, although trustworthy paper sketchbooks, notepads, and journals remain as an essential free-flowing workspace for brainstorming ideas. Morpholio conveniently combines both realms in Journal, a new app that redefines the portable sketchbook as a mixing chamber where designers, artists, writers, and all creative types can effortlessly record, organize, collage, or sketch to develop their ideas — right at their fingertips.

Journal Unleashes 5 Super Tools:

1. Sketch on anything, anywhere

Journal allows you to sketch and write on any media. Not everyone wants to start with a blank canvas and now you don't have to. Design over an image, get creative with a photo, or make backgrounds of any type. You can sketch on top of any surface, and the sketch will literally move, twist and scale with the image it's on. Draw on everything to build the ultimate archive of inspirations, ideas, and encounters; allowing the long memory of the computer to augment the short memory of the individual.

2. "Ludicrous speed": Rapid Fire Viewing

The ultra responsive design relies on research into the human eye's amazing capacity to rapidly assess high-bandwidth visual information. We now collect and store more information than ever before and require new ways to get through it-faster and smarter-while not missing what we need. Clearly the scroll is not the answer. In Journal you can soar through your infinite number of sketches, images, notes, photos and thoughts with the touch of a finger. This groundbreaking approach to viewing yields an ultra fast, highly optimized page-turn interface making your entire book accessible to discovery and review within seconds.

3. Designware: The Designers' Set of Essential Pens, Pencils and Color Palettes

Journal includes eight pens, brushes and pencils including chisel markers, charcoal, and other rendering tools capable of sheer digital magic. With unique line types per tool, they are carefully calibrated, not just for artists, but for designers who need to sketch in fine detail and diagram with precision. Sixteen color palettes, created by award wining graphic designers at New York's MTWTF bring polish to your artwork by putting expert color theory at your fingertips. A perfect arsenal of pixel ink for true creatives.

4. Collage Madness

Not sure how what to do with the 1000 photos you haven't posted? Collage, a tool of invention for many creative cultures, has been used to re-mix any number of visual media to promote new ways of seeing. Finally, a sophisticated drawing and painting platform opens up to the art of sampling, creating a collage tool that allows you to layer your everyday findings and thoughts in one place. Build mixed media artwork or layouts, photo albums, mood boards, material boards, scrapbooks, or rich archives of your discoveries, ideas and creations.

5. Super Notes

Sporadic thoughts or moments of inspiration happen daily. Organizing and noting are essential to any form of journaling. Morpholio incorporates sophisticated technology to make writing easy and legible, allowing it to remain an integral part of thinking with your hands. Add notes anywhere on or off a page and write anything from paragraphs to simple tabs to mark your place. Morpholio has also curated calendar, notebook, grid and task list templates to help organize your life.

Morpholio engaged artists in its community of elite members to explore the limitless possibilities of Journal.  Featured artists include Javier Galindo, a 2015 Rome Prize Recipient, and Paul Stallan, Design Director at Stallan-Brand. Anne Bentley, Karl Bengzon, Mitja Bokun, Maria Cantisano, Elena Ciuprina, Jaime Derringer, Tristan Ewald, Adrian Labaut, Jimenez Lai, Adolesa Lasisi, Shani Lin, Ed Marion, Tito Merello, Liz Ricketts, Reid Schlegel, Enzo Triolo, and Jane Wunrow also provided artwork.

"Journal was designed by a team architects, and programmers who believe that serious software should dis-inhibit the creative brain, and amplify the creative process." says Anna Kenoff, Morpholio Co-Creator. "Morpholio uses analog thinking to create digital tools that optimize the relationship between designers and devices, making creative work more productive and more meaningful."

Download Journal from the Apple App Store.
To learn more, visit morpholioapps.com/journal or morpholioapps.com.