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Slide Show: Trophy Case | November's Best PDX Stuff

November 1, 2013

WORKSHOP

Sword & Fern designer Emily Baker salvaged engine clamps from Oregon junkyards and melted down a mix of broken window and bottle glass to produce these colorful sword earrings. $58, swordandfern.com.

Photography by Emily Baker

COLLAB

Sure, it’s overcast, but cool doesn’t have to wait for summer. Pendleton and local eyewear maker Shwood teamed up to produce a limited run of 1,000 wayfarer sunglasses—featuring gray polarized lenses, a custom laser-cut design, and a matching Pendleton w

Photography by Courtesy Shwood

NIGHTSTAND

Cartoonist/journalist Joe Sacco is no stranger to stories of war and violence, but his new “book” is his most ambitious yet. The Great War, a single, 24-foot-long illustration, depicts the first day of World War I’s bloody Battle of the Somme. Sacco talk

Photography by Nomad

BIG IDEA

Shouldn’t working with numbers be as easy as working with text? The forthcoming app Equals, developed by Portland entrepreneurs Elia Freedman and Rick Huebner, essentially allows users to write out problems they might otherwise use spreadsheets to solve.

Photography by Courtesy Equals

BAND OF THE MINUTE

One-man DJ outfit Emancipator (a.k.a. Doug Appling) falls somewhere in the “electronica” genre—but his style is as unclassifiable as it is infectious: a downtempo blend of hip-hop beats, jazzy riffs, and quivering violins. Emancipator plays Memorial Coli

Photography by Courtesy Emancipator

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