TROPHY CASE

Trophy Case: The Best of Portland Design & Creativity in June

June's best handmade stuff, from Bauhaus-inspired turbans to luxe woolen club covers

06/04/2013

DESIRABLES

Trending Up: Triangulation

The power of three takes over today's design trends in chairs from U of O students, shoes from Nike, building materials from Italy and more.

05/31/2013 By Kristin Belz

ARTS NEWS

‘Fast Company’ Names Portland’s Creative Laureate to Its 100 Most Creative People List

The business magazine throws a dinner party for Julie Keefe and eight other creative thinkers to talk the future of cities.

05/13/2013 By Aaron Scott

SPECIAL EVENT

The Wild Delves into Portland Tech and Culture

The two-week fest brings together events by Portland's artists, designers, and maker-types to celebrate our city's awesomeness.

05/13/2013 By Sam Coggeshall

DESIGN MATTERS

Portland, Brooklyn, and the 1890s

Which city wins the award for artisanal authenticity - and which is exporting localism to the global market?

04/09/2013 By Kristin Belz

SLIDE SHOW

Fencing Lessons From Japan

The best of fencing, at the Japanese Garden.

02/11/2013 By Kristin Belz

Out and About

Upstairs, Downstairs at Beam & Anchor

Studio spirit and community capitalism converge in this haven under the I-5 freeway on North Interstate.

11/05/2012 By Kristin Belz

Out and About

Beyond Put-a-Bird-On-It

The Portland design world has graduated from DIY to a more sophisticated, yet still inclusive, collaborative aesthetic.

10/07/2012 By Kristin Belz

making stuff look good

Celebrating the Art and Business of PDX Design

Design Week Portland, a new but already noteworthy event, takes place all over town October 9–13.

10/04/2012 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

Design School

Portland, City of Designers

Our next wave of Portland festivals celebrates design, for all of us whose passion it is to make and build deliberately, carefully and creatively.

09/17/2012 By Kristin Belz

Desirables

Beam & Anchor, House & Home

The essence of today's Portland: solid quality, in it for the long term.

06/03/2012 By Kristin Belz

Desirables

Filling Spaces with Color

Immerse yourself in a new shop that is a beautiful melange of colors, textures and patterns.

04/02/2012 By Kristin Belz

Desirables

Hot Wheels Come in a Boxx

For early adopters, a new design object to covet – and to zip around town on.

03/25/2012 By Kristin Belz

Home Hunt

Growin’ and Groovin’ in Cully Grove

Orange Splot keeps trees and plants seeds of a new green community in Portland’s Cully neighborhood.

11/12/2011 By Kristin Belz

Appreciation

Apple Season Indeed

RIP design guru Steve Jobs, not your average computer type.

10/07/2011 By Kristin Belz

Out and About

Portland's Architecture + Design Month Starts September 29

A whole month to indulge in design-oriented exhibits, tours, lectures and parties.

09/15/2011 By Kristin Belz

DIY

ADX: Making It In PDX

A welcoming community work space for designers and makers of all levels.

09/09/2011 By Kristin Belz

Desirables

All Hail the Ancient Art of Mosaic

Hail Mary is a shop and mosaic studio filled with quirky beauty.

07/22/2011 By Kristin Belz

Read This

Poetry in Place

Forget the workaday functionality of ordinary maps; in this book, author Denis Wood redraws and redefines his neighborhood based on everything from radio waves to sidewalk graffiti.

06/27/2011 By Amara Holstein

Openings

New Design Sale Site

Are you an avid sale shopper? Or perhaps you just like to score a great deal? A new design flash-sale site called Fab just launched today, bringing high-design goods into lower price points.

06/09/2011 By Amara Holstein