Slide Show: Trophy Case | September's Best PDX Stuff
September 3, 2013
WORKSHOP
Lauren Holman grows and forages ingredients for her Oddfellows Soap, channeling her woodsy Bainbridge Island childhood. Available via Solabee Flowers locations and oddfellowssoap.com
IMPORT
For his Fangblade letter openers, local artist and designer Stephan Alexandr brings in bone from Florida gator-meat farms. stephanalexandr.com, $65
BACKSTORY
Few ad campaigns cite the Great Depression as inspiration. But the creative agency North evokes the 1930s' civic-minded art with its push for Cover Oregon, our Obamacare health insurance marketplace launching in October. "Some people will be relieved, an
EXPORT
Escape Collective consulted 1970s manuals to design elegantly rough-hewn "Escapehatch" geodesic domes, with funding from Hand-Eye Supply's Industrious Minds Fellowship. They built 14 retro-futurist pods for Utah's Summit Series conferences this summer. <
BIG IDEA
The start-up SwapServe creates an incentive-based volunteer clearinghouse: nonprofits solicit volunteers, who in turn receive free goodies from local businesses. Based in Calfornia, the site launched in Portland because the founders' research showed high
