Clifton Burt

A whole new year of disappointments awaits us.

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:50:00 -0800

A whole new year of disappointments awaits us.

(via superamit on Instagram)

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:41:40 -0800

(via superamit on Instagram)

Some presidents are better than others. Theodore Roosevelt...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:44:20 -0800

Some presidents are better than others. Theodore Roosevelt riding a moose.

via @buchino

“I came here in the early ’60s,” recalls Roger...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:23:21 -0800

“I came here in the early ’60s,” recalls Roger Porter, food critic and professor of English. “I asked someone what Portland was like, and he said, ‘It’s the kind of town where if you ask for a bottle of wine by name, they think you’re a homo.’ “

How did Portland, a soggy city on the West Coast, come to be the scrappiest, most original gastronomic destination in America?

The Internet as seen from the Post Office Research Station in...

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:11:00 -0800

The Internet as seen from the Post Office Research Station in 1969

(via Doug Coupland)

theokbb: Our car was broken into this morning. A suitcase...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:49:53 -0700

theokbb:

Our car was broken into this morning. A suitcase containing 95% of my zine collection along with my button maker, one inch die cutter, a bunch of OKBB merchandise, a ton of art supplies for zine making and my incredible rubber band ball were stolen. I am sure the thief is super bummed out by this score. I am super bummed out too because I shouldn’t have left a full suitcase in the back of our car. We never leave stuff in our vehicle, but I got lazy. I was tired after packing up my stuff at the studio and I was too lazy to haul the 50 pound suitcase up our stairs. I still had to do laundry and pack for my trip to Chicago the next morning. The suitcase would be fine. Right? WRONG.

The silver lining to this stupid theft cloud is that the show of support from my friends (some I know in real life and some I have never met before) has been amazing. Some have been offering to donate zines to the new collection. Just incredible. WOW…Big Time Thanks from me and Big Time Thanks from future workshop students. REALLY AMAZING! People are so GOOD! (except for that jerk that broke our window and stole our suitcase…well, maybe he/she has the potential to be good, but doing this certainly wasn’t a step in the right direction).

So, Clifton and I started doing some airplane brainstorming (I am currently enroute to Chicago and he is currently sitting in the glass repair waiting room in Portland, so we had some time on our hands). This new collection is going to be photographed and each zine will be given the appropriate credits (year, artist, where purchased, who donated it and where to purchase if still available). These images will be archived online and accessible to a way bigger audience than my previous collection. I am excited to get this project started. I am excited to share even more work that I love with even more people!

So, if you have a pile of zines that you would want to donate please ship to me at ADX Portland / 417 SE 11th AVE / Portland, OR 97214. You can borrow them back whenever you would like and I promise never to leave them in a suitcase in my car ever again. Also, if you make zines and want to be a part of the library that will travel to several schools every year, I welcome your rad works with open arms!

*above…images of my zine collection RIP!

*also, I fully aware the the events that just took place could be a skit in the third season of Portlandia.

*also, big thanks to Will Bryant and Amy Martin for searching the streets this morning looking for the sad suitcase. Also, a big thanks to anyone who is keeping an eye out for a grey American Tourist suitcase hanging out in SE Portland!

B. Kliban

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:02:00 -0700

B. Kliban

Photo

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:29:44 -0700

abitlate: thingsorganizedneatly: justtrucks: Scania Family...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:39:23 -0700

abitlate:

thingsorganizedneatly:

justtrucks:

Scania Family Organized Neatly

ed: I’ve been drafted to contribute to another great Tumblr, JustTrucks.

Thanks to supersexylikeherionsweet for the tip.

For my son.

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:44:00 -0700

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”

—Steve Jobs

——comix:

Cartoon by Saul Steinberg.

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:16:19 -0700

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

- Simone Weil

"If there’s anything I never learned in art school that I think is really important it’s the..."

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:20:25 -0700

“If there’s anything I never learned in art school that I think is really important it’s the importance of having “alien eyeballs.” You really have to look at everything with a, like almost inhuman eyes. You have to give it the coldest, harshest, unforgiving scrutiny you can possibly muster up and not allow yourself to come away with any opinion at all, other than what you’re honestly responding to.”

- - Chris Ware, artist of “The Acme Novelty Library.”

via talk @ playground

(via ——comix)

Our relationship to the machines of our trade can be...

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:51:00 -0700

Our relationship to the machines of our trade can be surprisingly emotional. That was one of the take-aways from Linotype: The Film which was screened at Portland’s Kennedy School theater last night. The feature-length documentary, by designer and filmmaker, Doug Wilson, takes us into the world of mechanized typesetting enthusiasts and the object of their devotion: the Linotype machine.

A documentary about typesetting history could have been a dull assembly of process and mechanics. But this was not dull (it did provide tremendous clarity to my fuzzy understanding of how Linotypes worked though) in fact, it had us laughing throughout. The filmmakers captured the stories of the Linotype operators, the passion, and the relationships with their now obsolete machines. For 70 years, Linotype operators were highly skilled craftsmen, essential to the production of busy printing operations. But, by the late 1970’s the machines were rendered obsolete by new technologies and most of the machines ended up in scrap yards. That sense of loss is transmitted fully through this film along with the joy and pride the operators feel about their machines. The ability to create an environment that allows us to feel what the Linotype operators feel about those machines is Linotype: The Film’s real achievement.

"The designer who creates strategies and systems rather than products — as more and more designers do..."

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:16:35 -0700

“The designer who creates strategies and systems rather than products — as more and more designers do — is working in a medium of pure intelligence.”

- Julie Lasky

"‘The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:35:46 -0700

“‘The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It’s not something that committees can do. It’s not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It’s done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.’”

- Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New

We recently teamed up with the legendary Hatch Show Print to...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:37:41 -0700

We recently teamed up with the legendary Hatch Show Print to make this terrific poster announcing that the Rural Studio is now taking applications for next year’s outreach program! Hatch dug a bunch of weights of Franklin Gothic out of their type cases for us! Thanks, Hatch folks!

Apps are due on April 15th, do you know somebody that should apply? If so, get on it!

epicenter:

The Rural Studio, located deep in the heart of Hale County Alabama, is currently accepting applications for their Outreach Program. Auburn University Rural Studio’s Outreach Program was designed as a way to bring students and collaborators from outside Auburn University into the fold of the Studio. Since its establishment in 1999, the Outreach program has evolved from often individualized, community-driven projects to a single team project: the 20K House.

One of the most challenging of all Rural Studio projects, the 20K house seeks to provide a well-built, affordable housing alternative to the ubiquitous mobile home for local clients. The homes are built for $20,000 where around $12,000 is allocated for materials and the remaining $8,000 would cover labor costs and contractor profit. Unlike other Rural Studio projects, the aim of the $20K House is to create a line of homes which could be built by contractors and have a greater impact on local communities.

Approximately 4 positions are available each year, and the program year is August through May/June ($6,000/semester). Applications are due on April 15, 2012 (for the 2012-2013 school year). To apply, please visit the Rural Studio Outreach page and click Outreach Application PDF (in the middle of the page) to download an application. For questions, please contact us at rstudio@auburn.edu or call 334.624.4483

To learn more about the Rural Studio, we suggest watching Citizen Architect, and reading Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency and Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee.

Radical listening at PNCA’s Applied Craft + Design. #y12k...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:47:08 -0800

Radical listening at PNCA’s Applied Craft + Design. #y12k #typetuesday (Taken with instagram)

movingthings: jakestangel: oh my god i love this so much. so...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:36:00 -0800

movingthings:

jakestangel:

oh my god i love this so much. so much.

jennilee:

the phone stack / thanks niall!

We usually take a pretty hard line against phones at dinner, but a new trick just popped up that gives us hope for the future. It’s called a phone stack, and it’s a buzzing, flashing reminder of every phone-etiquette rule the world seems to have forgotten.

It works like this: as you arrive, each person places their phone facedown in the center of the table. (If you’re feeling theatrical, you can go for a stack like this one, but it’s not required.) As the meal goes on, you’ll hear various texts and emails arriving… and you’ll do absolutely nothing. You’ll face temptation—maybe even a few involuntary reaches toward the middle of the table—but you’ll be bound by the single, all-important rule of the phone stack. Whoever picks up their phone is footing the bill.

This is brilliant.

Rules are meant to be…followed! Kate and I made up a...

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:15:00 -0800

Rules are meant to be…followed! Kate and I made up a rule-based project / game for Instagram in this new year. We’ve given ourselves a photographic assignment for each day of the work week. We call it #y12k which is meant to indicate the year 2012. Turns out that it literally translates to the Year Twelve Thousand which makes it even more awesome.

Here are the rules:

Monday #mondaycolor

Take a photo of something containing a color. Each week rotates through ROY G. BIV. The first week was Red, this week was Orange (we actually started #y12k the last week of December ‘11), next Monday will be Yellow, and so on.

Tuesday #typetuesday

Photograph some typography that catches your eye.

Wednesday #patternwednesday

Photograph, you know, a pattern.

Thursday #thursdaything

Take a picture of a singular object. It can be anything as long as it’s a self-contained thing and you find it interesting. Tell us about it (this applies to all of them by the way)

Friday #fridayfocus

This one’s about focusing on the media you’re into at the moment. It can be music, movies, tv shows, books. Just take a picture of it and share it with us all.

Here’s what the #y12k collection looks like so far: http://ink361.com/#/photos/tag/y12k

So that’s #y12k for ya. Oh, and you can add your photos to the #y12k pile too. It’s as easy as tagging it.

theokbb: My buddies Will Bryant and OMFGco put together a...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:59:32 -0800

theokbb:

My buddies Will Bryant and OMFGco put together a cringe inducing, yet AWESOME shirt with a solid, never forget message: HAIL SAFETY! Edition of 30 and proceeds go to the ever awesome ADX!

Order one HERE!