And so begins a new year. Here’s a quick little illustration I made as an incomprehensive snapshot of last year, and a few predictions for this one. Can you figure out what each icon represents? Answers below. [Left to right, top to bottom.] Occupy Wall Street. And Portland. World population reaches 7 billion. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, passes away. […]
On the first Wednesday of every month, CHIFOO — Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon (pronounced ‘ky FOO’) — invites thought leaders to share on different topics. This lecture series is to share experiences and ideas on User Experience, Usability and Interaction Design. April’s talk will feature the lovely and inspiring Kate Ertmann of ADi, a 2D […]
Last Thursday, 2/3/11, XPLANE held another monthly Visual Thing School (VTS). This one focused on the visual alphabet and speed drawing, once again led by Tim May, who came complete with Danish impersonations. The session started off with him showing how all basic shapes, the alphabet, and expressions can all be made with just a few […]
A couple weekends ago I had the pleasure of popping down to sunny warm San Francisco with a couple other AIGA Portland sustainability committee members to attend Compostmodern. This bi-annual conference is about improving products, industries, and lives through sustainable design. And by sustainable, they don’t mean just eco-tactics, but rather the full impact — on the […]
It’s official — I signed my team up for 48 Hour Film Project’s GoGreen, happening the weekend of February 18-20th. I’ve participated in a “normal” 48 Hour Film Project in 2008 (which was fantastic, thank you Jodi Sweetman and team), but this year’s will be a little different and international eco-style (from site): Just like the 48HFP, the […]
“Evolved thinking for change” is the motto for this new bi-annual series, rolled out by AIGA Portland’s sustainability committee that I participate in. This first Generate event on Wednesday 1/26, “is a platform for designers and creatives to discuss and share with other forward-thinkers who want to see a more sustainable world.” The discussion panel is comprised of […]
This quickie illustration is to represent a few random things that happened in 2010: “Made in Oregon” sign changed to “Portland Oregon“ Old Spice Man hub bub, created by Portland’s Wieden + Kennedy Free plastic bags are banned at Fred Meyers and retail checkouts in Portland Double Rainbow and auto-tune phenomenon (Bed Intruder is a close second) Angry […]
This Tuesday, 12/14, eight to ten Pecha Kucha style presentations on the future of publishing will be given at The Ace Hotel’s Cleaners for PageTurn. This event, organized by Todd Sattersten of Astronaut Projects and Dave Weich of Sheepscot Creative, is described as: “The event emerged from a conversation about Portland’s rich publishing landscape, and the […]
Banning free plastic bags is working. China, the leader in plastic bag use, has banned free plastic bags and has since seen a 49% decrease in new bags being used, according to the University of Gothenburg’s research distilled on the ScienceDaily. While there is further room for improvement — like actually enforcing compliance with businesses that […]
Since I was a kid, I have been tasked with ironing all the napkins for the Thanksgiving family table. Due to many years of nerding out on origami, I often try to infuse paper folding techniques into the cloth napkins (often requiring a lot of starch, and thus rendering the napkins’ function useless). Around this time last year, I found myself […]