Portland Bazaar

One of the coolest events I went to this year would have to be Portland Bazaar.  I so glad that Grace Bonney of Design Sponge decided to team up with some people in Portland to start this event.  Portland has truly become an awesome city and I can't wait what will come up in the next couple of years.   The location of the bazaar is in some studio in NE Portland and all types of local vendors showed up to display their best work.  I was surprised that there were many local shops and businesses that I've never heard before.  I thought I knew a lot about Portland, but I guess not.  This makes me want to explore Portland even more.

There were many local craftsmen that made awesome chairs and tables. Kind of pricey though.

This teepee in the corner of the space was awesome.  I love it how there's a family just chilling inside it while listening to some indie music.

Woodblock Chocolate, their chocolates are good.

My favorite vendor at the bazaar was Shwood.  They make these cool wooden sunglasses.  Pure awesomeness.

I love the teepee inspired vendor booth.

These bags are so awesome. Check them out at Sketchbook Crafts

This bicycle is nice. Walnut makes all kinds of accessories for bicycles.

PNCA Display

I love the Fall PNCA design display at the Galleria.  Located in Yamhill and 11th.  Check it out.

Junk Festivities Duo

Again, this is the Plucky Maidens Junk Festival which was one of the coolest events that I went to in Portland this summer, located in the Edgefield in Troutdale.  There were many vendors that carry antique and vintage items.  I love this piece above and the typewriter below. 

Collage, a creative/artsy supply store located in the Alberta Arts District in NE Portland was one of the vendors in this Junk Festival.  They always carry cool items. 

Junk Festival

One of the most coolest places I went to in Portland this summer would have to be the Plucky Maidens Junk Fest located in the McMenamins Edgefield location in Troutdale, OR.  I love love love that there were many unique and cool items such as window frames, bottles, and various antique/old pieces.  One of my current obsessions are to find and collect old ball jars, the ones that are made with a blue hue like the one above.  I think these jars make a great piece for decor around your living space.  Price wise, it's really a hit or miss, many of the smaller items were actually not too expensive, the bigger pieces can get very pricey.  Most of the bottles were between $7-$10.  There were window frames with the pane still intact selling for $8 and there were items like old suitcases which go up to $70.  Plus there was a local Portlander which won the second season of HGTV's Design Star that showed up to this event,  it was Emilie Henderson.  I should've taken a picture with her.  Dang.

Some of the old signs were pretty cool.

 Love bicycles, this one was pretty expensive.

 More jars.

 So many letter signs that I wanted to buy.

I love typewriters, I just don't have any space for them in my house.

Part 2 coming soon.

Alberta Summer Issue

We got a chance to just walk around the Alberta Street neighborhood. We went to this arts and craft supply store called Collage. This typewriter was one of the displays there. There were so many cool things there that Nana and I wanted to buy, but we tried to restrain ourselves. It was hard though.

Another cool bottle in a book display.

See, there were so many cool things we wanted to buy.

After going out of the store, we had a little on the spot photo shoot.

There were these cool flower balls on these really long stems.

Graphic USA

When we were in New York, we had a chance to attend a local book launch event for the design book Graphic USA.  It was cool because we got to see many local designers from New York and as well as the ones that contributed to the book.  The launch took place in the local Cherner Design studio in SOHO and I immediately wanted to live there.  The studio was so cool with many books on the wall, simple layout and all the design gadgetry you can possibly dream of.  Graphic USA was designed by my sister in law, Lisa and Joana from Studio April which they did an amazing job with the book.  The book provides sort of a locals or an artsy person's perspective guide to many major cities in the states and Portland is also in it.  Great book, awesome design, check it out. 

It was a cool event, we got to meet many of the locals and overall cool people.  The book is great, and also check out their previous Graphic Europe book also. 

CIMH

Here is another one of my sudden random urge to do an abstract design. I started seeing circles in my head and this is how I interpreted it to a physical form.

October Issue

I had a random surge of inspiration last night and decided to design this poster.  Planning to make a huge print and probably hang it in my office.  Cheers.