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Get Blog Posts As EmailsAs an art enthusiast, I appreciate the simplicity and cleanliness of vintage travel posters. I first became enamored by their design while studying abroad in Rome. Every tourist shop you stopped in had an image of Italy in the vintage style of saturated colors and thick text. I noticed more and more travel posters as [...]
Vintage Travel Posters
May 14th, 2010 by TimThe Path Between the Seas
April 14th, 2010 by JerrodI finished Pulitzer Prize winning-author David McCullough’s epic book about the building of the Panama Canal this past weekend while sitting at the pool of Gamboa Rainforest Resort which sits on old canal zone land (fitting, I know). I was trying to envision myself operating one of the giant Bucyrus steam shovels at the Culebra [...]
Happy Anniversary, Panama!
January 6th, 2010 by FrancesIt’s been ten years since the U.S. turned over control of Panama Canal to the Panamanians…and it’s seems to be working for them. From the Star Telegram: Panama reaping billions from canal PANAMA — The country has made $4.75 billion from the Panama Canal since taking it over a decade ago, more than twice what [...]
Home Sweet Home
January 4th, 2010 by JerrodMoving is a lot easier when you don’t have much stuff, as a I recently learned when I moved from amble’s furnished rental apartment to a larger house in Panama City’s Ancon neighborhood. It will serve as a residence for myself full-time now, and any other Amble employees on a part-time basis. I will miss [...]
Canal Expansion
October 28th, 2009 by DavidSince its inception, Panama has been known as the crossroads of the western world. As a land-route bottleneck from North and Central America to South America, and with the canal passing through this isthmus, Panama factors into world trade as a crucial point in world economics. As such, Panama has been subjected to the growth [...]
Deforestation
September 23rd, 2009 by DavidThe provinces of Los Santos and Herrera are considered the heartland of Panama. Many Panamanians trace their roots to these strongholds of Spanish settlement. It is in these areas where ranchers and cowboys tend to their cattle, where the best tipico music and food originate, where some of the greatest sense of national pride is [...]
The Symbology of a Place
August 25th, 2009 by FrancesLogo: A recognizable graphic design element, often including a name, symbol or trademark, representing an organization or product. From the Greek “logos.” Term established by Heraclitus as meaning both the source and fundamental order of the cosmos. That’s a lot of pressure! To try to sum up the entire vision of a business into one [...]
Arrr Matey
August 13th, 2009 by DavidYo ho ho landlubber friends, The seas be calm and fair the winds. Shiver me timbers and luff me sails! How winds do blow in autumn gales! A-bob upon the northern seas, Tossed by waves and blown by breeze, May be perceived a tiny sloop, Not thirty feet from prow to poop, Weaving ‘tween the [...]
What’s in a Name?
April 9th, 2009 by FrancesFor those of you might be wondering, it’s pronounced EEZ-lah Pah-LEN-kay. One of our minor marketing challenges is that our name is foreign and unfamiliar sounding to Americans (who will make up our primary customer base). In our early planning, we thought a lot about changing it to something more comfortable, mainstream and, well, American. [...]