Arts + Culture

Observed|Projects

Feeding Young Brains

AIGA Portland and The Right Brain Inititative have partnered on a new project to encourage kids to think creaively.

Daisy Fried|Poetry

Women’s Poetry

A poem by Dairy Fried.

Observed|Miscellaneous

Happy Halloween!

To celebrate the creepy and the spooky, a short list of films for your Halloween viewing pleasure.

Observed|Gallery

The Wire Poster Project

"The Wire Poster Project" consists of 60 typographic posters, each one representing one of the 60 different epigrams preceding every episodes of HBO’s critically acclaimed series, The Wire.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Asemic Writing: Open to Interpretation

Michael Jacobson’s Gallery of Asemic Writing is a website repository for international artists, writers, readers and viewers.

Observed|Exhibitions

The Way of Chopsticks

The Way of Chopsticks explores Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen's memories of growing up in Communist China and juxtaposes those hardships with their bilingual 11-year-old daughter's very different, very contemporary upbringing.

Observed|Gallery

Possession

Someguy, also known as Brian Singer, is a San Francisco based fine artistand graphic designer. His most recent work — Possession — is a screen print on uncut dollars.

Debbie Millman|Books

Card Shark (a Poem)

A visual poem from Debbie Millman's new book Self Portrait as Your Traitor.

Rick Poynor|Essays

From the Archive: Brian Eno, Artist of Light

An early profile of ambient musician and producer Brian Eno’s parallel career as a visual artist.

Rick Poynor|Essays

New York: City of Spectacular Doors

For six years, Allan Markman crisscrossed New York taking pictures of remarkable doors for a new book.

John Foster|Accidental Mysteries

Giraffe Houses of the Ozarks

Giraffe houses are generally thought to have first appeared around 1910, but their acceptance grew during the 1930s.

Elizabeth Guffey|Essays

Design For the Rest of Us: Where Are Design Museums’ Benches?

What a lack of benches in design musems means for the exhibits.