Recognition: Graphic Design USA 2012
The 2012 Dragon has already been beneficent to us! Competing with over 1600 entries, Q&A received a 2012 American Packaging Design Award from Graphic Design USA for our Consolidated Restaurants VIP Package (GDU will publish the list of winners some time soon and we’ll link to the official page).
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CNY2012: Year of the Dragon Party Portraits
No more General Tsao’s Chicken, please! Other than me OD’ing on Chow Mein, the inscrutable General’s chicken, and Dragon Punch (thanks goes to Charina Pitzel for the recipe: 1 part Bacardi Dragon Berry Rum, 2 parts ginger ale, 1 part unsweetened cranberry juice, add lime wedges) our party was a hit. Thanks to everybody who came. It was great fun.
Below the fold is the gallery of our portrait shots (thanks to Mike Anitas at Vine Studios). We totally expect to see these in the party-poop section in the back of Details magazine.
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Q&A’s Year Of The Dragon Party
Welcome to a most auspicious occasion.
Thursday, January 26. 6 to 8pm. Here at Q&A world headquarters on Seattle’s Capitol Hill.
A couple days fashionably late ( we got the dragon decorations half price!). There will be food, booze and Jackie Chan movies.
Just so’s you know: The dragon (龍) is luckiest of all the signs in the Chinese zodiac. Let’s face it we all need a little luck. And this year marks the year of the water dragon and this dragon is heavy with yin — wisdom and calm. I know it doesn’t sound much like a presidential election year, but we hope our magical little aquatic reptile buddy will help pull us through.
Stop by. Have some dragon punch. Gung Hay Fat Choy!
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Recognition: Graphic Design USA 2011
The sad gray days of Seattle in November had fallen upon us when a thick awards envelope appeared in our mail box to cheer us all up! Competing with over 8,000 entries, Q&A received seven awards from Graphic Design USA for the following projects:
- Q&A 2010 Chinese New Year Invitation
- Q&A Promotional Tabloid, “mattie”
- Elliott’s Oyster House Crabtacular Campaign
- Consolidated Restaurants Dinner On Us Campaign
- KUOW 2011 Annual Report
- Hart of the Northwest Logo
News: Friends of Fisher T-Shirt is Here!
Fisher The Dog has many friends. You’re probably one and don’t even know it yet. But we only had room for nine friends on this design. So far there’s Mr. Love himself — Bubba, the lovely princess Esther, genteel lady Dolly, shy little Luna, the cranky Mrs. MacDougal, pugnacious Bernie, big-brother Orion, and of course Steve!
Anyhoo, you want membership in the coolest pack since Jungle Book? Then buy this here awesome 100% cotton t-shirt for the low, low, price of $24.95. Just in time for your holiday shopping. This is the first of many cool designs we will be making and selling ourselves.
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Stop being beige
When I was a kid in the 70s in Melbourne, Florida, there was a house where the owners painted huge murals of 19th century nautical scenes. The entire house was the painter’s canvas. I cherished the times we drove by that house. I thought it was beautiful. And you never knew when it would get repainted into a new battle scene.
I remember hearing that the neighbors hated it and people complained. And then one day we drove by and it was all white with green shutters. I don’t know if the owners moved away or were pressured to conform. Read on
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