Archive for the 'The Process' Category

Bye Bye Baby – the end of the Flat Cat

It’s the end of an era.
Trevor walked upstairs last week holding the only 3 remaining Flat Cats and handed them over to Mitch.  There they were.  The last three. 

In case you didn’t know, Blue Q began it’s life with this “two-dimensional cardboard kitty that was marketed as the”Perfect Pet”. 
Let’s take a quick history tour here, [...]

Designer Workspaces, Part Six – Roy Fox

This is Roy Fox.

Ok, actually, that’s not Roy.  That’s a collage he did.  It’s of R. Hovey, poet.  Not that Roy Fox isn’t a poet.  In fact, when you scroll through the Blue Q website, you’ll see it’s full to the brim with Roy’s poetry. 

The Flower Shopper.

Vintage inspired Air Mail Zipper Pouch.
You see all these [...]

Enjoy Retirement, Michael

Michael Kuvent is longest employeed person at Blue Q since Blue Q moved from Boston to the Berkshires.  That was over 20 years ago.
Last Friday it was his time to retire….so, we bid adieu to Michael.  Seth gave him to key to Blue Q.  Here’s a sweet article about the event written by the Berkshire Eagle.

It was a much deserved [...]

Blue Q goes to Society Of Illustrators – Nate Williams

Deborah (Manager of New Product Development) and I went to the Society of Illustrators on East 63rd Street in Manhattan on Friday night to see Nate Williams talk.  And we’re now officially in love.
With the Society of Illustrators.  Why?  Who did you think I was talking about?  Oh, we love Nate too.  He’s prolific in [...]

Blue Q’s Mother of the Year

Who doesn’t love their Mother?
Well, I just wanted to tell you that OUR mother just won Agency of the Year by Creativity Magazine.  And what has your mom done lately?  No.  That’s not fair.  She’s awesome.
So, who is our mother?  Or more importantly, why do we work with Mother New York?  An Advertising Agency and [...]

Mighty Michelle Obama Bag #1 at Blue Q

It’s official.  We have announced our legitimacy.   No more screwing around.  I’m talking, P.R. baby.  All the way.  Check out this shiz:

Let the games begin.
Check it out here because we’re all about spreading the word my friend, influencing the influencers, alerting the masses, making you turn your head in our direction.  We got the goods and [...]

Nate Duval with Blue Q’s BEST selling coin purse.

I hope you know about this guy.
Nate Duval. 
This is not a 100% accurate portrait, but pretty close.

He used to work here – how many years ago, Nate?  4?  Holy macaroni, 4?  3?  He sat right over there…..right across from me…at the Mac.  As the in-house graphic designer….we used to talk about music and meatball subs [...]

64 Colors at Blue Q

I am delighted to announce that a long awaited sickingly sweet Blue Q Shopper has finally entered the building.  Oh, and you can have it whenever you want right here.
Oh!  And there’s it’s little brother too.
 So, who are 64 Colors?  Eric and Laura.  And they live in Michigan.  And they are the nicest people from [...]

Blue Q Books – Cat and Gnome

Every so often, an item will grab us in New Product Development by the lapel, tug us closer, and make us love it. A couple of years ago, we fell in love with zines.  It began with The Monster Who Ate Stars by Souther Salazar.

I mean.  Come on.  How friggin cute?

Art Director, Mitch Nash, saw this little [...]

The Blue Q Interview with Nate Williams

We are proud to present a little tete-a-tete with one of our designers, Nate Williams. 

In New Product Development we had been looking at one of Nate’s pieces for a while.  We do 2 product releases a year.  There is  process of deciding who we work with….we look at a lot of artists, a lot of designers, figure in all [...]

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