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Keywords – Sustainable, Environmental, Micro-cultures, Independent, Avant-garde
Population: 575,930
Incorporated: 1851
Nicknames: City of Roses, Bridgetown, Little Beirut, P-Town, Rip City, Stumptown, Razorblade City, PDX
Developments
- Handcrafted cottages
- Parks
- Rehabilitation of neighborhoods (Boise Eliot, Humboldt, Overlook)
Tourism / Place branding
- Travel Portland – Agency: Sockeye Creative
- Ace Hotel
Design businesses
- Sockeye Creative (Travel Portland campaign)*
Institutions
Design initiatives
- AIGA x Portland Office of Sustainable Development / Urban Forest Project*
Local businesses
- Grand Central Bakery (industrial space turned bakery)
- Chapterfour (clothing)
- Lark Press (letterpress + paper products)
- Flutter (epitomizes Portland’s love of the eccentric)
- Tita Pista’s (pop up restaurant)
- Saraveza (micro brewed beers)
- Nike (Eugene)
- Wieden + Kennedy
Links
- http://portland.aiga.org
- Portland Creative Conference
- Creative staffing for the Portland region
- Public Commision
- http://www.iamoregonian.com/content
- http://www.travelportland.com
Schools
- Oregon College of Art and Craft
- Art Institute of Portland
Articles
- Inner North Portland / Monocle Feb 09 pp148
- Print Magazine Regional Survey 2008
- Rethinking the mall | NY Times
“The Ainsworth Collective, a group of some 50 households in Portland, Oregon’s Cully neighborhood that came together out of a mutual interest in sustainability and community, have created a micro-economy within their few square blocks. They’ve published a directory of services provided by neighbors (from tax preparation to massage services to cat-sitting), encouraging local transactions. They’ve instituted tool-sharing, car-sharing, bulk food-purchasing and even own a farmer’s market that sells produce, baked goods and other items made by its members. There may always be mega-malls, but developers and architects would be remiss in not exploring grassroots solutions like this.”
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