{"id":45324,"date":"2016-04-22T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativecircle.com\/?p=45324"},"modified":"2016-04-22T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:00:48","slug":"design-week-portland-food-desert-idea-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativecircle.com\/blog\/design-week-portland-food-desert-idea-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Week Portland: Food Desert, Idea Jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Food Desert, Idea Jackpot:\u00a0The Design Week Open Houses of NW Portland<\/h3>\n

I may have spoken too soon when I declared that there was no need to plan for dinner during Design Week Portland\u2019s series of open houses. In contrast to Tuesday night\u2019s tour of N and NE Portland offices, where giant tamales, Mediterranean BBQ, and pizza abounded, the scene in NW was a relative food desert.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it was a welcome excuse to check out Citizen, a truly remarkable company that concerns itself primarily with the intersections of design and technology, performing research and analysis of market and culture trends to find new ways for tech advances to integrate into our lives\u2014and they create some seriously elegant flowcharts in the process. They also have one of the coolest office spaces in the city, tucked away on the fringe of where NW starts to become primarily industrial. Upon arrival they had Purple Rain<\/em> projecting on the wall (respect), a few paces away from a ceiling pendant that had been fashioned out of Apple earbuds.<\/p>\n

\"Design<\/p>\n

At this point, we\u2019re so deep in Design Week that you can\u2019t help but start to recognize people who are working the same circuit you are. Such was the case with Luke, an architectural consultant I had also seen at Wednesday night\u2019s party at NORTH. Mutual recognition demanded we introduce ourselves, swapping notes about the other events we had already attended, and those we planned to. It was pleasant enough that I stayed longer than I meant to, but eventually I pulled away, on to the next adventure.<\/p>\n

Big Frog Custom T-shirts has been hidden in plain sight on W Burnside for four years, though I\u2019d never heard of them. They\u2019ll digitally print a design of your, or their, making with no minimum, on tees that come in an array of colors and sizes and\u2026\u00a0that\u2019s pretty much it! But they did have snacks.<\/p>\n

\"Design<\/p>\n

The simplicity of Big Frog afforded me more time at Hand-Eye Supply, a shop that specializes in the best versions of tools for all kinds of projects. There\u2019s a global selection of writing instruments, notebooks, tools, axes, and workwear\u2014a curated retail haven for the fetishization of creative supplies. They are the retail arm of Core 77, an influential design site whose job board, Coroflot, is having its new office built within the adjacent Hand-Eye warehouse. It\u2019s actually on wheels, and began as a planned tiny house by Laurence Sarrazin of Los Osos design studio, built with wood milled on the property it was originally slated for. I\u2019ve met Sarrazin once before\u2014she\u2019s brilliant, and I enjoyed sharing a beer and conversation with her, though my stomach was starting to rumble by the time I finished ogling the Italian-made staplers on my way out.<\/p>\n

\"Design<\/p>\n

My last open house of the evening was Anthropologie. I\u2019d been curious about how they\u2019d activate the store for the occasion, and thought they might use the opportunity to highlight their collaborations with independent designers. Nope! They were simply open, business humming as usual. It worked out since I needed to price out a duvet cover, but I didn\u2019t dwell long before walking the few blocks to the westside tomboy headquarters of Wildfang.<\/p>\n

Presented by Sockeye creative studio, the event at Wildfang was accompanied by\u2014finally, hooray!\u2014freshly cooked up dim sum treats by Boke Bowl, which just about saved my life. It featured Piers Fawkes, founder and editor of PSFK, a site that specializes in future-thinking news, inspiration, and forecasts. The night\u2019s topic was \u201cThe Future of Retail\u201d\u2014basically a breakdown of the latest technology tools being used by companies to communicate with customers, maximize the availability of product information, and streamline their overall systems in ways that are both admirably efficient and depressingly capable of eliminating human employment. It was on the dry side for a jovial, dim sum and canned wine kind of crowd, but it got my juices flowing, and I drove home thinking through the inspiration it gave me for my billion-dollar startup idea.<\/p>\n

And no, obviously, I\u2019m not telling you what that is.<\/p>\n

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Marjorie is a former Creative Circle candidate based in Portland who recently accepted a full-time offer for her dream job. She is a writer\/editor and stylist\/producer with an emphasis in the design world. If you are interested in working with someone like Marjorie, please contact your nearest Creative Circle office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still on the fence about attending events or open houses?<\/h4>\n

Read our blog <\/a>on why it\u2019s important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marjorie takes another look at DWP’s open houses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[71,77],"class_list":["post-45324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-insights","tag-design","tag-design-week"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDesign Week Portland: Food Desert, Idea Jackpot | Creative Circle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read Marjorie's experience at Portland's Design Week\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Design Week Portland: Food Desert, Idea Jackpot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Read Marjorie's experience at Portland's Design Week\" \/>\n<meta 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