11th Avenue orange and grey panels photo via: Portland Ground: Pictures of Portland Oregon
Let’s talk. There are few things ultra likes better than considering design (and/or culture) in conversation. So it is that we welcome the launch of Design Within Reach Portland’s bi-monthly architecture and design lecture/conversation series, “Designs on Portland” wherein they promise to “take the pulse of our thriving design community.” Excellent.
What to expect for this first go-round? Talking about talking about Portland! To discuss “the surge in media attention and the portrayal of Portland in the press” and “how we can all play a role in the media’s perception of our progress [as an architectural center],” are two men highly qualified to do so because…they are the press, albeit from-the-inside-looking-out rather than vice versa. Randy Gragg, former architecture critic for the Oregonian and editor of Portland Monthly’s new Portland Spaces will be interviewed by Brian Libby of portlandarchitecture.com who also writes for the O.
Designs on Portland happens this Wednesday, January 16, 6:30–8:30 PM at DWR Portland Studio (1200 NW Everett).
Notes: PS now makes around five Oregon/NW/Portland home mags (two brand new) plus one based here but covering a wider scope (Atomic Ranch), but we’re probably underestimating.
Did you go to the launch party for Portland Spaces? Are your favorite party shoes still covered in mud? (We on heels had to tiptoe through the mud as PS had laid out sod in Track 7, an events space on the northwestern edge of things. This was probably a very good idea on paper. On the ground, in winter…mud.) Upsides, a Kovel on the cover and Matt McCormick projections on the big screen before the unveiling.
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