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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 [...]

Friends of Type: Kelly Greens

We confess. We are obsessed with type.  As such, we’ve been huge fans lately of the type collection over at Friends of Type.  These folks are craftsmen who showcase a true passion for type and the different creative ways it can manifest itself.  Currently, they are made up of the following talent:

Aaron Carambula—Objective Subject
Erik Marinovich—The [...]

David Lynch Windows for Galeries Lafayette Department Store, Paris

We’re really digging some of David Lynch’s recent work featured at retail. Here are two images from the window displays inspired by sketches from Lynch featured at Galeries Lafayette Department Store in Paris.  The series was entitled Machine-Abstraction-Women. For more information on this project, click here.

Ashod Simonian is Real Fun

Ever wonder what independent musicians do the other twenty-three hours a day when they’re on tour? Real Fun answers this question with over one hundred photographs of musicians and bands in their downtime—sleeping, eating, fishing, and just goofing off. Ashod Simonian has traveled with scores of the finest bands in indie rock. His dreamy, lush [...]

Tatiana Plakhova’s Complex Network Illustrations

We’re totally digging the Tatiana Plakhova’s amazingly complex network illustrations which were made in Adobe Illustrator. Her style is something some are referring to as “Networkism.” Visual Complexity says, “what’s interesting is to notice how the allure of intertwined complexity is contaminating many artists from more traditional realms (painting in particular) in what seems to [...]

Genevieve Mercatante: BuzzWorthy

We’ve been impressed recently with the work of hot, up-and-comer Genevieve Mercatante. She is a Portland, Ore.-based artist with an intimate and disciplined body of work. Since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002, her work has taken the form of painting, performance, and new media. Recent video and performance work has included Burglar Eroticism, [...]

Superstition: Art That Stands in Awe

We were able to check out a preview of the Superstition art show at Nemo while attending the Who Killed Social Media (#whokilledsm) event on Thurdsay June 4th. We were particularly impressed by the work of Aaron Piland (featured above). Via his website, “Aaron is an image creator living on spaceship earth. He believes in [...]

Greg Beauchamp’s States United

Via Creativity Online, we recently discovered Greg Beauchamp’s States United Poster.  Another great concept (shown in more detail on Flickr) from a clever and talented creative.  If you recall, Beauchamp was also responsible for the McCain Dog Poo flags during the 2008 election. He’s also the executive producer of the advertising documentary Art & Copy. [...]

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