Posts by The Silent P
Nakamura House & Murasaki Mura
We checked out the Nakamura home in central Okinawa, a house typical of a rich farmer back in the 15th century. We also enjoyed some time at the re creation of an ancient Okinawan village during the Ryukyu Kingdom dynasty, 14th and 15th centuries. Lots of arts and crafts to check out, so we tried…
Read MoreAdvertising and Engrish
BOSS coffee drinks loves Tommy Lee Jones. And it’s abundantly clear from the ad campaign here that Tommy is thrilled to help sell the product. Just to be clear: This is an actual advertising image used on one of the million or so vending machines in Japan. Look how “up and at ’em” he is!…
Read MoreA Day In Downtown Naha
On Sunday we opted to spend the day shopping in downtown Naha, the capital of Okinawa, around 1.3 million population. Every weekend on Sunday they close the main street to traffic and allow people to wander through the entire area. The downtown Market is an awesome area filled with all SORTS of stores, fresh food…
Read MoreOkinawa Street Art on Sunabe Sea Wall
We enjoyed some delicious coffee and breakfast today at our fave spot, Casa Coffee in Okinawa. Since this is partly a business trip, we are adding some pretty cool graffiti designs found as we walked the boardwalk in Chatan, 10 minutes from where were we are staying…hope you dig.
Read MoreKonichiwa From Osaka!
We have made it to Osaka Intl Airport, whew. That’s the big ol 747 that got us here. It is around 7:20 in the evening here, 6:20 a.m. your time! Amazingly enough, we felt like rice curry and a beer! (Matt had the beer) So we stopped at the same curry bar in the airport…
Read MoreSkate decks design preview!
Four new deck designs added to the line.All decks are 7-ply 100% Canadian Maple eh.See the entire line here: www.boardpusher.com/getacluedesign 1. Juicy Fruit Stick deck 2. Monster deck 3. Snow deck 4. The Pilot deck
Read MoreNew Wilco “Handlebar” Poster design.
Howdy pardner, this here new 18″ x 24″ Wilco poster is the cat’s meow, whiskers and all. The design is based on an original antique photo found locally, scanned, halftone screened, then made purdy with lots of hand drawn ‘stache hair, and some nice rich browns and tans, thanks to Longtooth Ind. We have some…
Read MoreNew “Get a Clue Design Studio Identities” book.
A sneak peak at our new small book of identity design.Spans quite a few years of work, condensed into 96 pages, oof. Also added a small movie as a virtual page turner…watch closely, it goes FAST. Was nice to work on this without ever hearing the expression: “Can you make the logo BIGGER?”Thanks go to…
Read MoreNew Poster Designs.
We have produced new gigposter designs in the last several weeks.Thanks to all the talented printers who helped…(half and half designs, longtooth industries, luckybunny, my associate cornelius)More to come!To check availability, please email or call us…matt@getacluedesign.com | 828-261-0075 Dave Douglas & Keystone, two color screen print. 20″ x 13″ Galactic, three color screen print. 24″…
Read MoreBlah, Blah, Blog!
Well folks, we bit the bullet (mmm, silver!) and started a Blog…we waited to jump on this techno-driven bandwagon (giddyup!), but by gollygoober, we hope to catch right up. Our Blog will only post important, serious, thought-provoking tidbits & complete nonsense…like this nugget: “Design is like visual bubble gum: It needs to be chewed to…
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