Cover Story

All covers are a creative challenge, but our annual 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon issue presented a particularly vexing problem: How to differentiate it from the 22 previous 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon covers. This time around, I wanted to represent a 100 Best Company workforce as truly, deeply, … Read more

For this year’s Powerbook issue, I was inspired (or overwhelmed) by the plethora of superheroes being thrust in our faces: The Flash, Arrow, Jessica Jones (which is really rather good) and the microcosm of the seemingly endless DC and Marvel universes on screens large and small. Producing an Oregon power-hero insignia for Oregon clicked as … Read more

My first interview with Vigor Industrial CEO Frank Foti did not go as expected.

As we worked on the October cover, it became evident that Nick Symmonds is a hard man to catch — even when he’s not hotfooting it around a track.