Rontoms Screen Printing Party
Here’s a recap video from the August dMob dLux T-Shirt Printing Party #2. Presented by Nathan Reimer and featuring designs from local Portland illustrators Adam Garcia, Craig Wheat, and Dan Stiles....
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Year in Review: 2012
As we begin 2013 and look forward to all the richness of a new year, we would like to thank you for supporting AIGA Portland. Over the past year, we’ve been happy to see a lot of growth and activity in...
View ArticleCreative Mornings: Thomas Wester
At the October 2012 CreativeMornings/Portland, Thomas Wester of Second Story Interactive Studios discussed the interactive environments of cycloramas, eidophusikons, raree shows, Pepper’s ghosts,...
View ArticleWebsites Don’t Blow, They Suck
Looks like Samuel Hulick has been reading up on Bucky Fuller. He’s particularly smitten with this keen insight, and so am I: When [he] announced that the wind “sucked”, his audience usually laughed out...
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100×100 for Josh
Plazm art director & Liquid Agency creative director Joshua Berger was in a serious bicycle accident last May, and sustained a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury). PICA & friends of Josh are bringing...
View ArticleSemi-Permanent Portland
Semi-Permanent is launching their US tour right here in Portland on March 13th and they’re bringing some of the world’s most talented creatives with them. Local blogger Tami Conklin recently had the...
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Crafting Type
Riding the Wave of Type Interest in Portland and Beyond by Thomas Phinney Is a government conspiracy adding something to the water that has caused a surge of interest in typography and type design?...
View ArticleCreative Mornings: Corey Arnold
The November 2012 Creative Mornings/Portland was short and sweet. Fisherman/photographer Corey Arnold casts a narrative from his early family fishing exploits to his current photography success. Arnold...
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Stake a Spot in Portland Design
AIGA Portland is looking for passionate folks to join our board. It doesn’t happen often, so if this feels like “exactly what I was looking for” — or just a wild idea, but an awesome chance to give and...
View ArticlePresentation Advice
Gene Ehrbar, director of mobile solutions for ISITE Design, culled together some feedback for presenting startups at Launch 2013. The advice works across all disciplines and situations: Don’t Bury the...
View ArticleCreative Mornings: Jolby
When you form a partnership, everyone wants to be The Beatles; nobody wants to be an El Camino. Josh Kenyon and Colby Nichols have struck that balance in Jolby & Friends. They spoke at the December...
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A Wildly Creative May
May is as good a month as any to explore the frontier of art, technology and culture, right? You bet your ass it is. From the website: The Wild is a series of events that takes on the gritty, indie,...
View ArticleCreative Mornings: Happiness
Give up. Don’t do anything. That’s the advice Jon Raymond—writer of fiction, screenplays and art criticism—gives at the January 2013 Creative Mornings/Portland theme of Happiness. Of course, there’s...
View ArticleCreative Mornings: Money
The theme for February’s Creative Mornings/Portland was Money. Back Fence PDX took over, presenting comical stories from Dave Jarecki, Molly Norton and Jeff Hardison. And—I meant to post this months...
View ArticleType Tuesday
There are a pair of videos that pay homage to 2013 AIGA Medal winners that happen to have very different styles of typography. I remember the first time I was exposed to both of these typographers....
View Article2013 AIGA Board Elections Voting
The leaves have sprouted, the birds are chirping and the roses are blooming. Spring’s refreshing sounds and smells always seem to bring on a tidal wave of change. Things are no different here at AIGA...
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Brain Food: A Grand Challenge
We all know how years of budget cuts have affected arts education in Portland area schools. Prompted by this creative deficit, AIGA Portland teamed up with The Right Brain Initiative to create Brain...
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Wrong?
Portland designer and developer Neven Mrgan points out a flaw in the new iOS 7 Jony Ive grid: Jony Ive’s new “icon grid” is a guide meant to ensure that different apps’ icons look harmonious on the...
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Design Contests Are Unethical
First, here’s AIGA’s position on spec work: AIGA believes that professional designers should be compensated fairly for their work and should negotiate the ownership or use rights of their intellectual...
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Exploregon Revisited
Scout Books posted a nice case study on AIGA Portland’s Exploregon zine! Exploregon is the first in a series of DIY publications by AIGA Portland intended to showcase the crazy creative community...
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