design scene in portland, oregon

The monthly IDSA Social’s back at Vendetta this month, sponsored by Relish, a very cool little design shop in the Pearl.

The owner Trisha Guido will be on hand to talk about the new private housewares label she’s starting up next year, and is looking to make some contacts with local designers and one-off or short run fabricators.

Runs from 6-8:30pm, at 4306 N Williams at Skidmore, in North Portland, so if you’re in ID or a related field and have an hour to spare, it’s a great way to meet some of the local design community in a very cool space with very cheap drinks.

Alas, couldn’t make Cut n Paste due to family obligations – did anyone go? How was it?

It was pretty awesome, I’d say their was about 300 or more people there. It was very well run, 5 big projection screens displaying the work in real time, it was cool.

tonight:
http://www.compoundgallery.com/gallery/2007/10/10.php

Thanks for all the info in this thread. I just moved to Portland and look forward to meeting any and all of you at the next IDSA social.

This Wednesday the 24th…because nothing says “Back to School” like drinking in a room full of power tools:

The social at Ai was great. Thanks for putting that on guys.

A little local competition >>

I started a topic for it here>>

Portland Process: Show of product design process from PDX area designers featuring work by:

Cinco Design
David King
Aaron Carlson
Brian Goodwin
Alex Warburton
Jared Eberhardt
and me.

Opening 6pm-8pm, Dec 6, this Thursday.
1122 NW Davis, Art Institute Gallery
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Love the logo! Your idea?

Hi all,

I’m putting together some events around the University of Oregon’s new Product Design program launch. It will be housed in Portland at the White Stag building in Old Town.

We’re going to host spring and fall lectures and I’m looking for names of people you’d be interested in coming out to hear. Gimmee some names!

Lee McCormack?
Yves Behar?

Mike DiTullo

“Non-Rockstar” designers. Discussions from the trenches. Students 2 years out of school working for firms like Ziba, fuseproject, Teague, Nike, etc.

Forget the superstars. Tell it like it is, not the prefabbed stuff you will get from the “biggies”.

Upcoming professional development event sponsored by IDSA. Speakers are being confirmed at the moment, watch this space for more info:

might have to head down for that…
i love p-town.

Uh Oh… looks like we might have 2 design happenings the night of the 24th. Kelly at Office is still putting together the final panel, but it is going to be great. I’m looking forward to hearing the other speakers who will include directors from 24Seven, probably W+K as well as a few design and architecture critics from the region. Should be a good night to party hop.

http://officepdx.com/events.php
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Well crap – I really want to go to that too. And I just found out that this is happening the night of the 24th at the Contemporary Craft Museum as well:

CRAFT IN CONTEXT LECTURE
Arline Fisch: Elegant Fantasy: A Journey through Textile Techniques in Metal
Thursday, January 24, 7 PM, The Lab.
General $5. Free for Students and Members at household level or above.
Presented in partnership with OCAC
This quarterly lecture series is designed to examine issues affecting the world of craft today through the lens of people who develop, create and critique new horizons in the arts. Having practiced her craft for more than 50 years, Arline Fisch is one of the most respected jewelry makers in the field. Her work melds jewelry, sculpture, and clothing, and she incorporates the structure of textiles and fiber craft into metal-based pieces that are often inspired by ancient cultures and the natural world.

http://www.contemporarycrafts.org/programs_lecture.php

Well, it may not be too late to re-schedule. Let me see what I can do.

Here it is, should be a good line up!

Lisa from http://ultrapdx.com
Rebecca Huston from http://www.twentyfour7.com
and David Hawkins who is the VP of Brand for http://www.umpquabank.com
… and me… http://michaelditullo.com

Jan 24 | 6-8pm (probably get drinks after…) | 2204 NE Alberta | RSVP info@officepdx (these tend to fill up quick)

get there.

Another great show here in PDX:
The Living Room
Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 Northwest Davis

Check it out if you are around.


http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/exhibitions/index.php?f=2007_10_living


living room

  1. A room that is set aside for
    ordinary social use (as opposed
    to a bedroom, etc.)
    1933 Discovery July 218/2
    The growing popularity of the living-room as the
    central dominant feature of the modern dwelling…
    has completely altered the design of the house.1
    living
    noun 1 the action of leading one’s life; being alive.
    2 an income suffi cient to live on, or the means of earning it.
    adjective 1 alive. 2 (of a language) still spoken and used.
    3 for or related to daily life: living quarters.2
    At fi rst glance, The Living Room is a tableau, a cutaway
    “model” of an imagined twenty-fi rst century home.
    With mid-century modern craft objects incorporated
    into the setting, however, the installation moves away
    from a commentary on current decorating styles to raise
    questions, instead, about the place of craft and today’s
    mid-century modern revival. Drawing upon two primary
    approaches to museum display: the imagined “period”
    room and the Wunderkammer-style glass cabinets,
    The Living Room is a critique of the way craft is presented
    within a museum context.
    Why is the exhibition called “The Living
    Room”?

The living room is one of the primary architectural
spaces through which early modernists actualized the
Bauhaus ideals of “form follows function.” Turning the
often empty parlor into the primary dwelling space, the
modern living room, particularly in the United States,
became the center of the average person’s household.
During the early decades of the twentieth century, a new
visual culture for dwelling in an industrialized and mod-
ern moment emerged. Painting moved from representa-
tion to abstraction; design engaged industrial materials,
processes and clean lines; and architecture embraced
glass, steel and open fl oor plans.
What is happening in homes today? …

Complete synopsis:
http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/pdf/2007_10_The_Living_Room.pdf

OK, we got the professional development night moved to Feb. 4; details to come shortly. But first things first – come meet us in Northeast for a drink next week:

Cool, thanks Carl. see you there.

OK, here’s the final info for the professional development night IDSA is sponsoring.

It’s been re-scheduled for Feb. 4, and speakers are confirmed.

Feel free to spread the word: there’ll be useful information there for a broad segment of the creative community, not just ID types, and if you haven’t seen the upstairs space at DWR, it’s pretty rad.

I’m in Portland for the weekend… if anyone out there is in Portland and would like to enlighten me about ID in Portland this weekend (phone, email, or meet up for a pint or something) let me know. No notice, I know… the trip was a personal one, to see a friend.