In the year 2000, Tina Turner’s Superbowl Halftime show will end with her ascending to the right hand of God to judge the living. Jon Smith, a longtime friend of the site finally has his first release! This hilarious and timely silkscreen print is a send-up of the 1968 Esquire magazine cover featuring another beset-upon celebrity, Muhammad Ali- Now if we had to bet on a fight between the two now, I’d have to give…
The Greatness of Jeff Kleinsmith
It’s midway through Jeff Kleinsmith‘s glorious month of residency at the Nakatomi Invitational. He was nice enough to sit down with us for some hard-hitting questions while providing some bone-crushing answers. Mr. Kleinsmith is one of Seattle’s most innovative designers – besides being the long-time art director for Sub Pop Records, Kleinsmith is a celebrated freelance designer and has produced a plethora of concert posters and art packages for a multitude of bands. BIAFRAH WINFREY:…
Nakatomi and He-Man at Gallery 1988!
At Gallery 1988 right now, they have new prints by Tim Doyle up in their “Under the Influence: He-Man” art show. The prints are available right now directly from the Gallery, and you can contact them here- GALLERY 1988. Any unsold prints will be available from us some time after the show closes (Although, you really should get ’em from the Gallery!) Who doesn’t love He-Man. I sure do. Well, to be clear- I love…
A Life Well Wasted Posters

For those of you who don’t know, ‘A Life Well Wasted’ is with out a doubt, the best video game podcast in existence. The week the first episode came out, it was the number one downloaded podcast on iTunes. It’s a pretty big deal. You can listen to it for free over HERE. And one of the great things they do over there is for each episode, they have artist Olly Moss create a print,…
Redletter Media’s Phantom Menace Review

WATCH THIS BEFORE COPYRIGHT CLAIMS TAKE THIS OFF YOUTUBE! Okay, okay. I really can’t stop watching this. You need to see this. It is very, very important. Keep in mind, it is 70 minutes long. I warn you, because once you start- you will not be able to stop watching, or laughing, or shaking your head in sad rememberance. I have spent a lot of time over the last 10 plus years since this film…
January Invitational- Jeff Kleinsmith!

Jeff Kleinsmith is a designing MACHINE. After overseeing the look of SUB-POP records for the better part of a decade, how does he have ANY energy left to do the magic that he does? Well, luckily, we were able to squeeze this great piece of art from his dessicated, designing husk. “Hello” is an 18×24 5 color screen print, hand printed in the Nakatomi print labs, and individually numbered! Hello depicts a friendly skull-headed robot,…
ALT: My Blue Heaven

You wouldn’t believe the year I had. It was an incredible journey of self-discovery and redemption. You see, through the amazing future technology of the ALT program, I was able to live amongst the beautiful, blue-skinned natives of the Onomatopoeia tribe. Me in my host body. They called me T’undalips. Now, if you haven’t seen a certain film that has recently been released in theaters, let me warn you that there are some uncanny similarities…
Lost Prints on sale soon!

FINALLY! All artists who participated in the Lost art project at DamonCarltonandaPolarBear.com couldn’t speak about the project until today. (SOME of us, me included, couldn’t keep our traps shut 100% of the time, but what can ya do…) So, in response to all the emails, YES, we do have 50 copies of our print here at the Nakatomi HQ. And YES, we will be selling them. And, to make ’em extra special, Tim Doyle is…
Test Prints and a Tube Sale!

It’s a good deal. Just ask Lesko there. It’s the end of our first year of business, and it’s time for us to clean house! So, what do we got for you? TUBES! For $40 you’ll get 5 prints from Nakatomi Print labs. Some will be 100% beautifully perfect, some will be ALMOST there, and at least ONE in each tube will be a unique one of a kind TEST SHEET. What’s a test sheet? …
A Quick Note
First, congratulations go to Nakatomi mastermind Alex Fugazi. He has successfully reproduced (with a female!) and brought into our world a brand new baby boy that will someday be mortified that his scrotum is on facebook. Congratulations, family! Next, here’s a picture I have maybe seen before. Maybe you have, too. But if you haven’t yet, here’s proof that you can’t even trust your best friend: Chewie… that’s not cool. Han called dibs.

