How a Portland Architect Built His Dream Home in Six Months
In July 2012, Jamin Aasum set out to build a modern abode overlooking Industrial Northwest Portland in time to get married inside—on New Year's Eve. Here's how he did it.
View ArticleSkyscrapers Made of Super-Strength Wood Could Transform Portland’s Skyline
How cross-laminated timber could replace concrete and steel in future Portland buildings.
View ArticleCould Portland's Makers Spark A New Industrial Revolution?
ADX founder Kelly Roy explores the potential of small, hands-on workspaces and their impact on the industrial economy.
View ArticleShaker Simplicity Meets Danish Modern in the Awesomely Elegant "Portland Chair"
A refined designer from Portland (Oregon). A renowned manufacturer from Portland (Maine). You know this chair is going to inspire serious envy.
View ArticleAre Tiny Homes the Housing Solution for a Fast-Growing PDX?
How to cope with a population boom, rising prices, and McMansion ugliness? A gathering of innovative housing thinkers says the solution lies in microscopic homes.
View ArticleBuckminster Fuller Inspired These Aggressively Angular Portland-Made Lamps
North for the Summer debuts a lighting line that channels the great midcentury design thinker.
View ArticleThis New Sustainable Furniture Design Company Is Portland Through and Through
Folk launches with a Northwest-minimalist aesthetic and high-minded aspirations.
View ArticleThanks to Wood & Faulk, Holiday Shopping for Your Favorite Artisan-Obsessed...
“Our pieces are classic with kind of a rugged edge ....They have that Northwest feeling combined with classic nostalgia.”
View ArticleThe Visionary Parks Designer Who Transformed Portland
The unlikely tale of the power brokers, rebellious hippies, and genius architect behind Portland’s first modern neighborhood
View ArticleA New Stone Jewelry Line That Dazzles
Beach Bones jewelry takes hunks of "raw material from the universe" and turns them into statement pieces.
View ArticleHow the 'Up-Cycling' Design Company Looptworks Reinvented Portland's Most...
The closed-loop manufacturer turns excess leather into premium luggage. Everyone wins.
View ArticleA Portland Start-Up's Cute, Customized Backyard Pods Could Be Your Fortress...
SQFT aims to combine flexible designs and ADU-like value with speed and sustainability.
View ArticleHow to Design a Portable Vaporizer
Designer James Monsees tells us how the PAX changed the game.
View ArticleBright Lights: Portland's Mayoral Candidates Talk About How Design Can Shape...
Ted Wheeler and Jules Bailey square off on the cityscape as Portland heads for its May primary election.
View ArticleDesign Week Portland Returns With Bold Thinkers and Big Ambitions
From TED Talk-style lectures to an event combining archery, projection mapping, and booze, the annual festival has something for everyone.
View ArticleThese Dreamy Retro Campers Will Make You Think You’re Adventuring in the...
Portland’s Dub Box remakes vintage VWs for the 21st century.
View ArticlePortland's Proposed Green Loop Could 'Reinvent Outdoor Urban Life'
A Design Week competition will rally competing visions for a carless path through the city center.
View ArticleReal Architects Make Their Models Out of Wood
A World Forestry Center exhibit showcases a design technique no computer rendering can kill.
View ArticleCan San Francisco's Planning Czar Tell Portland How to Grow?
The Bright Lights discussion series presents a conversation with Gil Kelley, San Francisco's director of long-range planning.
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