Sculpture over Portland waters
A gallery that has no home. A working studio space that has no address (well, sort of). Shake hands with The Labrador, 12128, a floating workshop/refuge/venue/studio/gallery run by four recent art grads from Lewis & Clark. The Labrador lives on the Willamette River, on Sauvie Island, and used to ship bodes back home after WWII, as well as fish frozen northern waters for crab. Sounds like a set for Ghosthunters, a place where artists go to get... Read More
From Where We Stand – Portland Masjid
Islamic Center of Portland Dr. Cornel West recently said I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural. I read that only a day before I visited a Mosque (Masjid) for the first time in my life. This was a heartwood trip. I’ve heard the call to prayer (Adhan) for years, I’ve even had a widget on my home computer blare out the call to prayer for about a year, much to the surprise of guests. What on... Read More
“When you have more clowns…” says Frank Chimero
Frank Chimero at Land Gallery If you are in Portland and you know what is good for you, march yourself right on down to Land Gallery and experience Frank Chimero’s show “If Someone Asks This is Where I’ll Be.” It is impossible to imagine this much work crammed into such a tight space. It makes Land feel 10x larger than it actually is, and unless you seriously pace yourself you may miss something. Frank has pieced together... Read More
Unknown PSU
For the longest time I’ve wanted to snoop around this enormous University that I’ve called home for about three years now. Nothing affords this better than a Sunday during summer session. A couple Sunday’s ago I took about four hours and went into 3 buildings I’ve never had a reason to venture into: Science building 1 & 2, and the interim XSB Music building. I found myself a full two stories underground, lurking in empty... Read More
Collaboration mega fluff
The press release reads “can 18 disparate Portland artists, writers, designers, art directors, fashion designers and illustrators get together and work as a singular unit to make art? Probably not.” Hordes of us have been talking and coffee-tabling collaboration as the new salvation, the new -ism, the way to move forward. Generally, I hear gushes and swoons about how Portland has been leaning-in on the forefront of whatever collaborative... Read More
Moncler Gamme Bleu SS 2011
First of all this was totally swiped from Eye Five Style, because we Portland bloggers need to stick together, and because the content of their feed is just scrumptious! Menswear galore, excellent commentary, thank you Zeus for giving us both in one spot. Alright Moncler Gamme Bleu, you and your square-cut ties can come over for tea and cookies any time, I will find room in my life for you. Red, white, and blue stripes on a modern heather grey... Read More
John Skelton, Typographer
More free stuff? Why not, it’s the future, copyleft, share alike, all that stuff. Bonus; this typography is gorgeous. Portland is a happy home for designer John Skelton, who shares all his typefaces with the world on his site. My favorite is the black and white number, called Pinpressions. John Skelton | Afrojet (where you can download each of these fonts + others) Read More
Coast Modern + Build
Build has created this limited edition poster for the film Coast Modern (trailer below). Sized at 33 1/8″ x 23 7/16″ and printed on 100lb Topkote stock in Pantone 806, it is a complete slice of the west coast of the US + Vancouver, Canada. What a color choice, what a coastline. I’m proud to be on this coast, in one of the little blips where the Columbia River slices into the Oregon territory. The poster is a limited edition, though there... Read More
Design Speaks with Frank Chimero
Last week the ever trusty (why? not sure) Frank Chimero was hosted by the Portland chapter of AIGA at their periodic Design Speaks lecture series. He spent the perfect amount of time setting up his case for squishy, human + value-centered design rather than design that is sleek, stylish, and meant to aide rampant consumerism. Eric Hillerns was kind enough to grant all of Franks students free passage to the event so we showed up to support him and... Read More
Studio Labyrinth
Our studio needed some love in the common space right outside our door. It is a shared space with six doors which usually remain closed. My assignment was to create a sense of value without spending any money. So Jelly and I spent five days painting an 800 year-old Chartres labyrinth – David Bowie was not involved whatsoever. Jelly was the brain behind the measurements + outline, and the rest was lots of affection, patience, and basically a... Read More