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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!