A bright yellow lemon with a textured surface.

Visual research & design practice

Creative Studio

Lemon Juice is a creative studio that helps people and organizations bring their ideas to life through visual research, photography, and thoughtful design.

We create thoughtful visual systems, websites, images, and creative tools through collaboration, care, and close attention to how work is used in the real world.

Portfolio

Selected projects

Visual Design Systems

Photography Projects

Glassblowing furnace with glowing orange and yellow molten glass being shaped.
A young woman with curly brown hair in a black tank top and leggings sitting cross-legged in a meditation pose on a cloud against a background of blue sky and white clouds. 
Glass
Yoga
A circular arrangement of white textured spheres on a black background, forming a ring.
Two hands with rings, surrounded by cannabis buds on a black background. 
Photo illustration 
Cannabis

Practice

Research

Observation, reference & context

Design

Systems, structure, and form

Photography

Image as record and expression

Lemon Juice operates as a visual research and design practice rather than a traditional service studio. Each project begins with inquiry and moves through structure, form, and application.

Lemon Juice - Creative Studio by Jay Muhlin

Other Projects …

Luxury Pet Photography Pop Up Events

Word cloud with cafe menu items including small, large, and extra large options, hot chocolate, coffee, latte, all under a black bar, with a blue border.

Greeting cards: that are out of this world

Pixelated pink text on a black background that reads 'FROM A DISTANT STAR'.
Black and white photograph of a cherry blossom branch with flowers and leaves against a white background.

Newsletter

Aiming for a Quarterly or Seasonal Frequency

Occasional notes from Lemon Juice on visual research, design, photography, seasonal projects, experiments, and small creative systems.

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Collaborate

Collaboration at Lemon Juice is built around conversation, trust, and continuity. The work grows through relationships rather than transactions, and through shared thinking rather than fixed formulas.

Rooted in an art and research background, projects unfold through observation and inquiry, allowing structure and form to emerge over time. Design is treated as a living system, developed with care and shaped in collaboration.

Websites, visual systems, and photography often result from this work, but the focus remains on clarity before output and building work that can grow and adapt.

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