Design Week Portland events are starting to dot the map as we edge closer to the week long event that celebrates everything design related. The newest to announce their lineup is the Delight Conference which will be happening in amongst the week's festivities.

Delight 2013 is a two-day conference in Portland, Oregon for brands and professionals who care about making experiences people love. The event features a unique lineup of inspiring case studies, workshops and keynote presentations, as well as peer networking with fellow experience design, digital, marketing, and business leaders.

The lineup is equally intriguing and features ux professionals from a variety of leading companies like Nike, Starbucks, MailChimp, Zipcar, Disney and more. This two day event is not one to miss if you're interested in the process of crafting experiences.

Delight 2013: Experience Design Conference
Monday, October 7, 2013 at 9:00 AM - Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 5:00 PM (PDT)
Portland Art Museum: 1219 SW Park Ave, Kridel Ballroom Portland, OR 97205
You can find more registration info on their Eventbrite page.

Here's some work coming out of the student camp by Parker Gohrick. The local designer created this contemporary, flat letterpress design for mythical beer maker, Impressed Brewing. We love the clean, minimalist design of the elements and the overall muted tones used throughout the piece. The crowning piece to us, though, is that Patrick used letterpress as the printing medium for this student work — a slightly more unconventional method that we normally see in student work and especially in packaging design. The result, though, is undeniable. The embossed nature of the logo and other elements give this work a tactile, tangible feel.

Heineken Legend II - The Date from Paul Schleicher on Vimeo.

Wieden + Kennedy just pulled out a huge win at Cannes — taking home the Creative Effectiveness Grand Prix for their recent work with Heineken. The campaign entitled, Legendary Journey: Justifying a Premium the World Over features the upscale traveler who finds himself in a variety of adventures the world over. Everywhere he goes, though, Heineken is always there like a stalwart friend. The campaign was hugely successful and saw increases in sales and brand awareness in every country the campaign ran.

Now before writing this off as just being another award won by some studio in Portland, realize this is no ordinary award. There are a variety of hurdles that have to be jumped through to even be considered for this. In order to to enter, they campaign had to win a Lion award the year before. The entrants must then submit a 40-page paper explaining the campaign and the metrics that resulted. The paper and the success of the metrics then need to be analyzed and verified by PriceWaterhouseCooper prior to being submitted to the jury. That is just to get in the door. Then the real scrutiny begins as the judges attempt to determine the overall effectiveness of the campaign. Survive all that and you have a shot at glory.

Huge congrats to W+K for their win and a truly amazing campaign.