Different color! Collaboration between Nagasaki Prefecture cab company and Osamu Nagaba. | news

Nagasaki Prefecture Taxi Company "Blue Caband original goods by Yu Nagaba, an artist and illustrator, will be released on June 21.

Blue Cab is a cab company based in Sasebo, Nagasaki, and Fukuoka, and is well known in Nagasaki Prefecture for its distinctive "blue" car body. The corporate logo and website have been redesigned since 2018, and Mr. Nagaba's work on the logo and website illustrations was the catalyst for this project. The collaboration does not stop there, as Mr. Nagaba's illustrations have also been painted on the cabs actually in operation since the same year, and if you walk around Nagasaki City, you will see many cabs with his illustrations on them.

In addition to apparel items such as T-shirts, caps, and coach jackets, the goods to be released under this project include a Tomica based on an actual cab. In conjunction with the production of the merchandise, a lookbook was shot in Nagasaki. Mr. Nagaba provided the art direction for that and the merchandise design for this collection, and has provided illustrations for past collections.Sasquatchfabrix.The brand is designed by Daisuke Yokoyama, the designer of the "K" brand. The photo also shows the look of the brandLiao HanabusaMr.