The Design Issue
Design Week Is Back. Here's Your Game Plan.
How to Design Week
An Illustrated Introduction to Design Week Portland
Portland(s) of Tomorrow in Futurelandia
What Will the City Look Like in 50, 100, 200 Years?
Equity and Aesthetics Should Mix
Historian Reiko Hillyer Talks Density, Affordable Housing, and Equal Access to Public Space
Kevin Cavenaugh's Art of Risk
The Guerrilla Development Owner on Bringing Thoughtfulness, Creativity, and Risk into Portland Development
Design Week Portland: A User's Guide
Our Picks for Every Day of the Festival
Feeling the Overview Effect
Composer Tylor Neist Replicates an Astronaut's Return to Earth
The Central Eastside's Vanishing Borders
Diving into the Future of One of Portland's Most Rapidly Changing Areas
AKQA + New Avenues for Youth = A Very Different Pigeon
At-Risk Youth Partner with Digital Design Firm to Create New Fashion Brand
Crystal Beasley's Data-Driven Antidote to Fast Fashion
Her Portland-Based Company Is Finally Making a Goddamn Pair of Pants That Fits
Local Champion Cartoonists on Best Practices in Beer Bottle Design
Plus, How to Design a Brewery!
A Master Class in Wedding Calligraphy and Hand-Lettered Logos
Precious Bugarin and Bryn Chernoff Will Help You Make Your Own Font!
Essential Real Talk for Creative Freelancers
The Overshare: PDX Podcast Covers the Design Life—No Unicorns or Butterflies Allowed
Chelsea Peil's Ways of Looking at a Leaf
The Design Consultant on Visualizing the Shift Toward a Waste-Free Economy
AFTER A MOVE in scheduling from fall to spring, Design Week Portland is back, and this time around it's jam-packed with open houses, workshops, panel discussions, breakfast lectures (brectures?), and no shortage of fever dreams of future Portland, glimpsed through a lens of design. We've done the legwork, sorting through a gigantic—not to say straight-up daunting—lineup to bring you the highlights. Even for the most art-allergic Portlanders, there's something here for you: From chats with historian Reiko Hillyer (who has some choice words for Portland's scourge of terrarium purveyors!) and womenswear revolutionary Crystal Beasley (who's changing the way women's jeans are designed and manufactured) to fresh conversations about development, affordable housing, and the city's changing landscape, plus forays into space travel (seriously) and designing for all things beer. Here are our picks for getting the most out of your Design Week Portland.
