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My good friend Kara Burke has a small gallery opening tonight at 7 at Blooming Moon in the Pearl as part of Portland’s First Thursday festivities. If you are down in the area, and if you live here you probably are, stop on by and see her oh-so-adorable little paintings. They will make you smile. Promise.
Okay, so I haven’t posted for a couple weeks. Patrick Dempsey took like 37 years off from acting and now he’s like everywhere and shit. And my blog is way cooler than Patrick Dempsey.
I love art with a sense of humor.
Insert money. Porcelain figurine falls. Porcelain figurine breaks. Happy ensues.
From artists Katja Kublitz and Ronnie Yarisal. Found via Quipsiologies.
Musical obsession of the moment, The Submarines, are playing this Sunday (tomorrow fools!) at the Doug Fir. I will be there. You should too. Just how do they pack so much adorable into these quaint little ditties? Find out!
A sweet little Subs video for your to enjoyment, complete with puppet sea monsters:
I realize that most of my posts of late have been other artists’ work that I find intriguing. Nothing wrong with that, but as blogging is an inherently narcissistic pastime and I feel compelled to occasionally indulge in a little gratuitous self-promotion. After all, this is a blog-slash-portfolio, yes?
For about as long as I’ve worked at Nike, I’ve been creating these typographic T-shirts for the expanding NikeiD Studio program. The illustrations, originally conceived as staff-only, are made up of regionally-specific phrases which aspire to create an emotional connection with the consumer in specific markets. Ever since the decision was made to sell these shirts at retail in each city’s respective Studio, they have apparently had a very successful sell-through rate. Which I like to think of as job security.
I post them now because about an hour ago I finished my final T-shirt graphic, one for the iD Studio in Barcelona. I’m quite certain my creative director is tired of me sitting around our studio drawing letters — instead of, you know, working — so further designs beyond the ones pictures will be outsourced. I won’t say I’m not glad, seven-deep and I’m kind of done with making these, fun though they are. Who doesn’t love illegible typography and bright colors!? I’m sure whoever makes them in the future will get paid a hell of a lot more than I did… such is the life of an in-house designer 
Starting with the most recent…
Dunk High for Barcelona, Spain.
Air Max 90 for Beaverton, Oregon.
Dunk Low for Beijing, China.
Dunk High for Paris, France.
Dunk Low for Osaka, Japan.
Air Max One for London, UK.
Dunk High for New York, NY.
I think that they’ve gotten tighter (both in execution and visually) as I’ve done more of them… I honestly can’t stand looking at the New York one anymore. Though there was a definite moment of pride for a 23-year-old graphic designer when good friend Kara Burke calls from a café in NYC to tell me that somebody just walked by wearing my shirt.
Okay, so rarely do indulge in such public displays of blind brand loyalty, but I’ll make an exception here:
The latest addition to my rapdily-growing sneaker collection, Speed Racer-inspired Dunk High Premiums. Just look at that perf. So fresh.
These made their one (and likely only) appearance on my feet at this week’s Kanye West concert and subsequent afterparty, which was extremely rad because I got to witness a DJ set from the one and only ?uestlove. The perfect cap to an remarkably entertaining Tuesday.
And now, it’s time for these beauties to go back into the box…
This beautiful project, found via Design Observer, is a collection of unscratched lottery tickets collected by one Ali Alvarez. Apparently it started out as a means of irritating an ex-girlfriend and has turned into a rather interesting social statement. I’m curious to hear what people’s reaction is to it… I have plans to bring this up over beers tonight to incite good conversation.
I stumbled across this very interesting series by French photographer Cédric Delsaux. Cédric pairs masterful architectural photography with portraits of characters from George Lucas’ Star Wars franchise — which doesn’t seem all that remarkable until you really stop to think about what such proficient juxtaposition of reality and science fiction does to your perception of both. Somehow, an unremarkable parking garage becomes a fantastic locale when Bobba Fett stands inside. Conversely, a platoon of Stormtroopers seem tangibly real when they are stationed beneath an everyday highway overpass.
Find the series on his web site by navigating to “Series.”
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