Posts marked ‘Random’

thumbnail

And on to Twenty Twelve

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. Water […]

thumbnail

Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011!

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 […]

thumbnail

Bad news for the Amercian Beauty film kid.

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 […]

thumbnail

Napkin Origami for a Happy Thanksgiving.

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 […]

thumbnail

The beginning.

After attending NerdCamp (WordPress Camp) this past weekend in Portland, I’ve been re-inspired to post to a blog. I hope to keep track of design and advertising observations, Portland happenings, the absurdity of “green”, and provide inspiration for intentional design…whatever that means. Cheers to a new, positive, digital beginning!

  • Thanks for stopping by.