Power Gamer: Laura Hall
Laura Hall, designer of Portland’s first escape room, crafts real-world puzzles that mix logic, storytelling and design.
Arts and Entertainment
What Portland can learn from Alabama
A little over a year ago, I took a road trip around the Deep South. My kids and I flew into Atlanta, drove to Birmingham, Alabama, and from there retraced the state’s Civil Rights Trail in Selma and Montgomery. It was my first visit to that part of the country, and I was surprised — naively … Read more
Iconic gallery shutters flagship location
The closure of The Real Mother Goose spotlights changing environment for artists and galleries.
Sewing lessons
Portland Apparel Lab, KinStitch and Moxie and Moss Workwear: A roundup of Portland textile and apparel startups.
Video: ‘Pattern making is the perfect combination of math and art’
The co-founder of the Portland Apparel Lab is a math geek at heart.
October Cover Story
Designing the October cover image leads us to a classic children’s book and a superhero cartoonist.
On the scene: Truth, trust and questions for the media
More than 3,000 students, journalists and media executives gathered in Washington D.C. to learn about the latest trends in digital media.
Museums catch startup fever
Silicon Valley ideas about incubators and accelerators are seeping into old guard cultural institutions like museums and art galleries. I dropped in on Day one of MuseumNext, an international museum conference underway this week at the Portland Art Museum. The sessions focused on leveraging tech, big data and startup culture to help museums thrive. One … Read more
The Cover Story
OB’s art director deploys foreign currency — and attempts a form of origami — to fashion our September cover image.