One of Portland’s premier independent designers and co-owner of Seaplane, Kathryn Towers responds to the ultra Q in which ultra asks Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
Qualities you most admire in design:
simple beauty, originality/ creativity and craftsmanship
Qualities you most despise in design:
ugliness, mass produced crap
Reading:
Middlesex, Slammerkin, and the Colette novels
Listening to:
Karen Ann, Broken Social Scene, old Boards of Canada
Dream project:
costume design for a movie- maybe a modern fairy tale
Favorite virtue:
i floss my teeth every night
Favorite vice:
sugar
Tragic flaw:
saying yes to everything…
anxiety
Secret superhero power:
multi-multi-multi-tasking, working in my sleep, working on no sleep
That which keeps your afterburners firing:
results, revealing something I’ve been working on for a long time, too much wine
What you’d like to be when you grow up:
amazing
Portland’s best kept secret:
Portland
Portland heroes (sung or un-):
all of the people who are actually doing things - not just talking about it
Interesting on the horizon (PDX):
I hear Portland is going to break off from the U.S. and join Europe
WHAT TO DO NOW?