Tonight is the crown jewel of Design Week Portland events: A talk by Stefan Sagmeister, renowned for graphic design work including album covers by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones, who is now busy working on projects that revolve around the relationship between design and the search for happiness. The event’s long been sold out, but if there’s only one DWP event for which you seek out the services of a ticket scalper, this should probably be it.
- Marco Scozzaro
Other picks include:
2 pm: Intisar Abioto of the Black Portlanders project approaches Oregon’s African diaspora, past and present, in a multidiscipline experimental performance Story Design, A Danced Treatise on Story as Act of Place. HQ at Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW 6th & Morrison, 2-3:30 pm, $15
(This is probably an excellent back-up if you can’t find your way to Sagmeister:)
7 pm: The New Structure is a storytelling series “relating to historical, urban, and design topics.” For the Design Week edition, they’ve gathered apparel designer Adam Arnold, architects Carrie Strickland and Rick Potestio, and former mayor Sam Adams to share their personal tales of design-related adventure. Rontoms, 600 E Burnside, 7-10 pm, $5-20 sliding scale
There’s also a slew of open houses in N/NE and Ricard Mosse’s amazing looking multimedia installation The Enclave happening at 8 pm at the Hollywood:
And, if you need additional, on the fly guidance to navigate the flurry of activity this week, the giant international R/GA ad agency, which recently opened a Portland office, put together a sited app that just hit iTunes yesterday afternoon. Helpful!
North Portland represent! Come make some pulp seed bombs at the c3:initiative and Pulp & Deckle Open House tonight from 4-7pm at 7326 N Chicago Ave. (Also pulp spraying demo. at 5:30pm!)