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The other Taj Mahal: A love hotel in Tokyo

Chelfitsch at On the Boards

The time I left my keys at work when I lived in Tokyo, well, I stayed at a love hotel. The trains had stopped running and it was too late to double back.

Anyways, this place was called The Taj Mahal.

I was hoping it was run by Indians, and they’d give a desi a break. Y8000 later, I was noticing all the buttons on the side of the bed, and flipping past all the porn on TV to that year’s broadcast of the summer Olympics.

First North American tour of Chelfitsch

Today I got word there’s a play out that’s set in a Tokyo love hotel.

Maybe because Design Kompany just went to see Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine and I’m still thinking about it that I’m all interested in what’s going on in theatre around here.

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Steve Christer: ‘Listening, reevaluation and production are all equally interdependent’

Architecture by Studio Granda

Interested in Iceland?

Steve Christer of the Icelandic firm Studio Granda is coming to town on Monday, January 12, to talk about “the soft grip” of architecture.

Here’s what Christer writes:

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Next Korner: Tuesday, January 6

Design Kompany hosts Designers Korner monthly

Join us on Tuesday, January 6* for drinks at Vermillion.

Design Kompany hosts Designers Korner with friends and designers every month.

*Note: This used to be on Mondays at Stumbling Monk, but we’re changing it up in 2009.

‘Start:’ A short film with snow


This is it. I’m done.

A year ago at Thanksgiving I started experimenting with editing super short film segments for YouTube. Start is gonna be my last one.

It was an idea I got from Seattle Times‘ web editor Cory Haik at a workshop on how to shoot film for the web.

Shooting short films

Her point was that you don’t have to get all fancy to start making things happen. Inertia is the thing that holds us back.

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The Year in New Brand Pictures: 2008 Highlights from DK

Here are the logo designs we designed as part of brand identity design packages for clients in 2008.

DK designs 2008

We lead people to the core of what makes their business special. But more than that, we find out what people really care about.

If you can run your business from the heart, it shows. And that kind of energy is what we love to capture in our logo designs.

Also see our work in 2007. Or browse our portfolio.

Sidelines

I thought I’d also mention we had a bunch of extracurricular projects, something new in 2008:
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s1ngletown

100K ExecLast week I went to the library and made a copy of a photograph in Adbusters, which really, I am still thinking about.

(This photo is from NathanBushDesigns’ Flickr.)

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Goodbye, Sandy

Today is the last day for my personal assistant Sandy, whom I took on back in April. She’s retiring tomorrow.

I Want Sandy

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DK brands Northwest orthopaedic sales company A1A

A1A, an orthopaedic sales company with offices in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest, commissioned Design Kompany to design this logo:

Design Kompany designed this logo for a Pacific Northwest company

We also designed business stationery. Here are the letterhead, envelope, and business card designs:

Business card and stationery featuring Design Kompany's graphic design

And yesterday, we got this in the mail:

Stitching a logo on to a bag

The design idea

Graphic designers everywhere would be delighted to work with the typography for something so geometric a name as A1A. Two A’s and a strong vertical 1 tempt all kinds of creative exploration.

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