Yes, can we please have idea-based adornment?
Squint your eyes and enamel pins from the Space Needle, the Girl Scouts, the Rotary Club, and the Daughters of the American Revolution all blur into color and form on the nearest lapel. Like a bumper sticker for your clothes, they signify identification, status, history (where been, what seen).
A-Z […]
The Significance of No-Significance
Egg Press Spring Sample Sale
Egg Press, with their modern, whimsical letterpress cards and related goods, is clearing the decks, lucky you. Get to the Egg Press studio (939 SE Alder, Unit 1. 503-234-4233.) this week for their Spring Sample Sale
Don’t Miss: Creating a Killer Portfolio at OFFICE PDX
Creating A Killer Portfolio, a panel discussion at OFFICE on April 9 from 6-8 PM gives firms or freelancers specializing in graphic design, retail design, interior/environmental design, advertising and/or industrial design invaluable perspective from professionals at firms like Nike, Boora, Nemo, Big Giant, UNKL on what makes a portfolio that Works
Bug and Necklace
Portland artist Hillary Pfeiffer introduces necklaces inspired by her “lovebug” wall sculptures
Tonight: PDXPO, Portland 2008 Design Expo
For the third year, the AIGA’s Portland chapter brings Portland’s design community together for PDXpo tonight, Thursday, March 27 from 5:30-9 PM at the Portland Center for Performing Arts: The Winningstad Theater (1111 SW Broadway). The main event is the keynote address by former Portlanders Alicia Johnson and Hal Wolverton (Johnson + Wolverton), currently Executive […]
Call for Entries: Independent Handbag Designer Awards
design: Nina Rosen, Nina Perrera Handbags, finalist 2007 Independent Handbag Designer Awards
To all of you Rocky Balboa’s in accessories design, here’s a competition for you. Website Handbag Designer 101 has opened submissions for its Second Annual Independent Handbag Designer Awards™. There isn’t a monetary prize, but the overall winner gets a free booth at the […]
Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn*
Or rather the soon-to-be Hotel Modera and one-time Portland Inn/Day’s Inn circa 1962 at SW Clay and 5th. Anticipate the renovation of this central hotel that promises the kind of distinctive design polish you see at few Portland hotels. Because of the steady hand of interior design firm CorsoStaicoff (Hotel Murano, Hotel Max) and Holst […]
Surface Surface: Prints Charming
From the prints all over the runways for spring 08 to the all-over prints for streetwear and the op-prints in the world of avant fashion, the print’s the thing and a Portland-based company delivers.
Pattern People is the surface design duo of Claudia Brown and Jessie Whipple Vickery who specialize in prints for apparel and interiors. […]
