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We’re Attending the NADI Retail Design Collective Show in New York City December 9-11

We’re looking forward to a fun week in New York to attend the Nadi Retail Design Collective Show December 9-11th.  NADI is the Visual Merchandising Committee for A.R.E., the Association for Retail Environments. Members include manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers involved in the visual merchandising industry. As visual merchandising has evolved throughout the years into its [...]

PDX Pop-Ups Shops Grand Opening

We would like to invite you to stop by the new PDX Pop-Ups shops this Thursday evening November 12th at 5PM for their grand openings. Mayor Sam Adams will be on hand at 5PM for brief remarks and ribbon cutting. As part of the Downtown Retail Strategy, Portland Business Alliance, Portland Development Commission, Downtown Marketing [...]

Aspen Art Museum: Hidden Gem

In our quest to read every single page of the internet, we recently stumbled upon the homepage for the Aspen Art Museum.  Wow!  That fresh mountain air must be great for contemplating contemporary art. We were pleasantly surprised with the caliber of their exhibitions and their refined modern aesthetic. We were also immediately transfixed with [...]

Lurdes Bergada Flagship Store in Barcelona

One of the trends we’re noticing in environmental design these days is the use of triangulated panels and irregular surfaces. The Barcelona-based design and architecture studio, Deardesign recently showcased this approach with their launch of the Lurdes Bergada Flagship Store in Barcelona. We enjoyed this space for being both restrained and experimental in the same [...]

Gidon Bing channels Bauhaus to promote Karen Walker Paints

Karen Walker is rocking our world with her new line of paints by New Zealand’s Renese. To promote the new line, Renese commissioned a wonderful set of miniature Bauhaus structures that serve as three dimensional paint charts. The diminutive buildings, intricately and lovingly modeled by Auckland sculptor Gidon Bing and designer Katie Lockhart, model various [...]

Chad Hagen’s Nonsense Info Graphics

We love discovering the latest and greatest infographic designs and are fascinated by the intersection of information and artwork. The work presented on Visual Complexity comes to mind. What happens if the information behind the design is actually nonsensical. That notion is what designer Chad Hagen has been experimenting with on his Flickr photo stream. [...]

Montreal Artist Michel de Broin: Dead Star

Born in 1970 in Montreal, Michel de Broin lives and works in Montreal and in Berlin. Through a collection of objects and actions, his works seek to escape the constraining nature of modern utopian aspirations whilst attempting to reenact them in playful, jesting objects that glorify the referent on the one hand while upstaging it [...]

Opolis Design Takes First Place in Print Magazine’s Fourth Annual International Business Graphics Competition

Congratulations to Opolis Design (our friendly neighbors in the Gotham Building here in Portland) on winning First Prize in Print Magazine’s fourth annual International Business Graphics Competition.  They created the media kit shown in the photo above, which promotes Nike’s reissue of its vintage running products, to look like a 1972 issue of a fictitious [...]

Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X – 197X

An explosion of architectural little magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture with the architecture of the magazines acting as the site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period, which were published in over a dozen cities … The original exhibition was [...]

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