Besides directing/curating the wurst gallery, his online gallery project, Jason Sturgill has been a busy man in recent years, from working on Bwana Spoons’ beautiful zine, Pencil Fight, and doing design work for Dark Horse to doing creative headhunting for companies like Laika and cultural research or “cool hunting” (!) for Weiden + Kennedy. He […]
ultra Q: Jeff Jahn
artist, critic, PORT co-founder, aesthete and visual arts impresario, Jeff Jahn responds to the ultra Q in which we ask Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
Jeff Jahn at Wonder Cafe
Jeff Jahn is what you’d have to call a player in the PDX visual arts scene. Artist and curator behind the temporary […]
ultra Q: Sam Adams
ultra ?’s City Commissioner Sam Adams. He cares as much about the arts and the creative economy as we do and is amazingly down-to-earth (literally…chickens…see below). As well, he’s singing our song on many other issues (like support for small businesses, yeah!) on which his advocacy will make the difference in keeping Portland good. Here […]
ultra Q: Andy Blubaugh
Director and Sundance alumnus, Andy Blubaugh, responds to the ultra Q in which ultra asks Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
GWM, 5′7″, 140 lbs, br/br, shaggy, scruffy, easygoing, seeks partner in crime. Genius knuckledragger types encouraged to apply, but really anyone bigger than me (common) and smarter than me (not so […]
ultra Q: Derek Welch
With partner-in-crime, Jason Bacon, Texas-transplant Derek Welch lives a double design life doing work for high profile clients like Nike, LEGO, Virgin Mobile, Converse through the duo’s firm Big-Giant while simultaneously running UNKL Brand. UNKL makes art, gaphic t’s, and especially vinyl toys (currently sold in every continent except Antarctica, according to Welch) like the […]
ultra Q: John Blasioli
We love John Blasioli’s designs for men because he knows that men appreciate surprising details just as much as women do…cuffs lined in contrasting fabric, tabbed shirt-fronts. Blasioli is busy as hell preparing for his April 25th fashion show at Seaplane for his line, a broken spoke, as well as filling custom orders and readying […]
ultra Q: Kelly Coller and Tony Secolo
Husband and wife team and owners of the NE Alberta haven for the modern worker/design-lover, OFFICE, Kelly Coller and Tony Secolo respond to the ultra Q in which ultra asks Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
Kelly Coller and Tony Secolo. photo: Jenna Biggs for Willamette Week via Coller
Qualities you most admire in […]
ultra Q+: Patrick Fisher
Hive
Hive Modern Furniture (820 NW Glisan Street and www.hivemodern.com) is a delicious and refreshing store situated amidst the home decor boutique phenomenon of the Pearl District. The unsurpassed feature of the store is the use of light–natural and synthetic–sparkling vibrantly. The store is a certified vendor for Alessi, Cassina, and Vitra among other formidable names. […]
