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  • Creative Mornings Portland: Mira Kaddoura

    May 2nd, 2013 / Comments (0)

    New details are out on the next session of Creative Mornings Portland. May's event features Mira Kaddoura, an artist and independant advertising creative/art director working with both clients and agencies. She spent 10 years at world-renown agency Wieden and Kennedy working on brands such as Nike, Coca Cola, The Girl Effect, Target and Travel Oregon. Her work has won numerous international awards, including Cannes Gold Lions, D&AD, and TED Ads Worth Spreading. This is shaping up to be a great event, so be sure to get your tickets early.

    Creative Mornings Portland: Mira Kaddoura
    Friday, May 17, 8:30-10am
    Ziba Auditorium: 810 NW Marshall Street Portland, OR
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  • Reel Struck

    May 1st, 2013 / Comments (1)

    Struck Creative Reel from Struck on Vimeo.

    We're huge fans of the highlight reel as a method of promoting your skills. Whether you do motion graphics, video or even more non motion-based work like web or print design, the reel can be a great way to add some motion and variety to your portfolio site. Not to mention, they're just a lot of fun to watch and share with friends.

    We just tripped and fell over this reel from Struck, which has a nice little shop here in Portland. Their reel is about a year old, but we hadn't seen it before. We were surprised by the variety of work done by the national firm (Portland is one of four offices), and there's plenty here that is super recognizable. We found ourselves going, “Oh yeah, we remember that.” quite a bit, which is always kind of cool.

    As a side note, if you're not quite sure how the concept of a reel would this work with more static-based work, Check out Draplin's fantastic Creative Mornings presentation. Smack in the middle of it he has a reel sandwiched in his there that's a solid example of what it could look like.

  • Show Me the Way - Portland Art Museum Icons

    May 1st, 2013 / Comments (0)

    Check out these fun, informative new icons designed for The Portland Art Museum by local designer, Jason Sturgill. These were used to direct viewers as they took part in the museum's free family and community day. These are extremely minimalist, but they have a very “pop art” feel to them which fits nicely in the art museum space. Check out more of Jason's work on his site. He's got some great stuff in his portfolio.

  • The Unsung Hero

    April 30th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    The Unsung Hero from Vision-lounge on Vimeo.

    We were just talking the other day about how there seems to be a real trend in commercials lately to humanize technology — focusing on the impact it has on our daily lives vs. focusing on the features. This approach is powerful because it brings people and their lives in view while humanizing the company in our eyes.

    Just such an example of this is the work that Corey Stafford and the folks at Vision Lounge did for their client, FLIR. FLIR manufactures thermal imaging and surveillance equipment for a variety of corporate and government applications. Vision Lounge was tasked with humanizing the company as they make their way into more daily devices that affect our lives. The spot is fairly effective at doing just that.

  • Columbia Sportswear

    April 29th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    We came across these ultra clean, vibrant ads done for Columbia Sportswear by Portland designer, Aaron Mahoney. Mahoney handled all the re-touching of raw photography, print production and design on this campaign. You can check out more of Aaron's work on his website (which is Flash-based, so be patient).

  • 50 Hands

    April 29th, 2013 / Comments (2)

    We love a good puzzle, and this is one we literally cannot figure out. Designer and Illustrator, Daniel Hawkins, recently did this personal exploration of the human hand. He laid out a 7x7 grid and drew 49 hands from different angles and with variety of gestures. The puzzle in this is that Hawkins says there is a 50th hand in the composition. We sat and looked at this for a while and still couldn't find it. Can you? Oh, yeah, the hands in red ink are gesturing the phrase “50 hands”. It's a nice personal exploration that becomes a functional piece of art.

  • Quick Ain't Fair

    April 29th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    Here's a new spot from Adidas featuring the fantastic talents of John Wall, Damian Lillard and Jrue Holiday. In this storybook spot, A$AP Rocky spins us a yarn about three amazing ballers who lived in a shoe and how unfair it was that these three men had all the skill and all the quick inside of their shoe.

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