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Feb 12, 2009
Ready, Steady, Dig: PDX Furniture Design
image via Studio Gorm
Heads up that next week, Design Department (1315 SE 9th)--Ben Hufford and Eric Black--an architecture/industrial design firm, is opening its close-in, street-level SE space for a month-long furniture show by some of Portland's brightest design …
Feb 12, 2009
Our Best Machines Are Made Of Sunshine
Opening tonight, "Our Best Machines are Made of Sunshine" is an exhibition of installation and photography by ultra-fave, Paige Saez and Rebecca Steele at The Lodge Gallery at Allied Works Architecture (1532 SW Morrison). Feeding back to the feedback (and this is …
Feb 9, 2009
Innovation During a Recession
A panel discussion about making lemonade in this time of lemons. [note: this is the second time in two days I've been inspired to deploy this particular cliche. The first time, I was able to resist. This time, I was not.]
As noted here, this Thursday, February 12 from …
Feb 8, 2009
Disaster Capitalist at Gallery HOMELAND
disaster with a lower-case "d"
This latest exhibition at Gallery HOMELAND (2505 SE 11th) plays off the term Naomi Klein's gives to companies that have learned to profit from disaster in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism in which she argues …