Andy + Natsuko, In Search of This World

This post is long overdue. But since these guys are opening a show this Thursday, let’s pretend my tardiness was planned. I’d love to introduce two talented designers calling our grey city home. Andrew and Natsuko met while studying graphic design at Portland State University and have a show for you. It’s awesome, they let me squeak in for a sneak peek. Here are the show details: The Littman Gallery (1825 SW Broadway, Portland)... 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

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

Metropolis cover

Lis Charman over at Portland State University teamed up with her husband Brad Trost to design the latest cover of Metropolis magazine. This is so so excellent, not only the final solution but all of the iterations. This is called prolific! What an example to set for all her students in the design program. While working on this Brad and Lis went through these gorgeous versions: From Brad & Lis: We were asked to come up with four different ideas. We... Read More