A reimagining of a classic. Designer Andrew Clifford Capener has created the A-1 Scrabble designer edition which features your choice of fonts and a scrabble board and interior box are made out of solid walnut, and the exterior box is made from birch. Each of the 6 board pieces is…
Auto Art
I met my very first industrial designer when I was about 16. Well, to be fair, he was really just a an 18 year old kid getting ready to go off to Pratt Institute in New York to study Industrial Design. Either way, as a career choice, it was something…
What’s Your Story?
When I moved to Portland, I lived downtown. I spent my first few weeks here exploring my new neighborhood. Walking the streets, taking unknown lefts and rights, wondering if it would ever feel like home. I would peek in the windows of restaurants I couldn’t afford, and smoke heavy bars…
Plastic Fantastic
The news making that buzzing sound around the water cooler is the proposed plastic bag ban in Portland. It made me wonder; what’s to become of the bags we have now? Art, of course. Which, of course, makes me wonder what of the other recyclables? Newspaper? Plastic bottles? The possibilities…