2014 — WeMake

FALL 2014

Featured

Dec 7, 2014

Yvonne Perez Emerson

RECAP—Zine Workshop with Kate Bingaman-Burt at IPRC

Dec 7, 2014

Yvonne Perez Emerson

Dec 7, 2014

Yvonne Perez Emerson

Nov 3, 2014

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Discovery Workshop—Making Zines with Kate Bingaman-Burt & IPRC

Nov 3, 2014

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Nov 3, 2014

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Oct 23, 2014

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RECAP—sXc with Dan Christofferson aka Beeteeth

Oct 23, 2014

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Oct 23, 2014

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Oct 23, 2014

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RECAP—sXc with Pizza Friday

Oct 23, 2014

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Oct 23, 2014

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Oct 17, 2014

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Make Believing with WeMake Celebrates and Put A Bird In It

Oct 17, 2014

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Oct 17, 2014

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Oct 6, 2014

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Put A Bird In It for Arts & Music Education—The Line up

Oct 6, 2014

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Oct 6, 2014

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Oct 6, 2014

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Put A Bird In It—Featured Maker, Justin "Scrappers" Morrison

Oct 6, 2014

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Oct 6, 2014

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Sep 29, 2014

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Put A Bird In It—Featured Maker, Maryanna Hoggatt

Sep 29, 2014

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Sep 29, 2014

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Sep 24, 2014

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Put A Bird In It—Featured Maker, Ezra Cimino-Hurt of Case of Bass

Sep 24, 2014

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Sep 24, 2014

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Sep 19, 2014

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A Journey from the Heart—sketchXchange with Lisa Congdon

Sep 19, 2014

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Sep 19, 2014

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Sep 18, 2014

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Put A Bird In It—Featured Maker, Kinoko Evans

Sep 18, 2014

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Sep 18, 2014

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Sep 12, 2014

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Put A Bird In It—Featured Maker, Bowen Ames

Sep 12, 2014

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Sep 12, 2014

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Sep 9, 2014

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Put A Bird In It—Featured Maker, Leland Duck of Revive Upholstery & Design

Sep 9, 2014

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Sep 9, 2014

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Sep 4, 2014

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Hive Five, An Interview with Craig Opfer—Put A Bird In It Featured Maker

Sep 4, 2014

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Sep 4, 2014

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Sep 3, 2014

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RECAP—sXc with Keegan Wenkman

Sep 3, 2014

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Sep 3, 2014

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SUMMER 2014

Featured

Aug 29, 2014

Guest Contributor

Recap—Workshop with Scout Books

Aug 29, 2014

Guest Contributor

Aug 29, 2014

Guest Contributor

Aug 25, 2014

Yvonne Perez Emerson

Crafting the Story—An Interview with Dan "BeeTeeth" Christofferson

Aug 25, 2014

Yvonne Perez Emerson

Aug 25, 2014

Yvonne Perez Emerson

Aug 22, 2014

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RECAP—sXc with Jessica Hische

Aug 22, 2014

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Aug 22, 2014

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Jul 22, 2014

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A Mover and a Maker—An Interview with Paul Anders

Jul 22, 2014

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Jul 22, 2014

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Jul 21, 2014

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WeMake 2014 Put A Bird In It Makers + WeMake Celebrates

Jul 21, 2014

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Jul 21, 2014

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Jul 6, 2014

Emily Oliva

Recap—sXc with Illustrator and Poster Designer Dan Stiles

Jul 6, 2014

Emily Oliva

Jul 6, 2014

Emily Oliva

Jun 30, 2014

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Pizza Friday—An Interview with Tom O'Toole & Thomas Bradley

Jun 30, 2014

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Jun 30, 2014

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Jun 2, 2014

Guest Contributor

Ink, Paper & Magic—An interview with Pinball Publishing founders Laura and Austin Whipple

Jun 2, 2014

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Jun 2, 2014

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SPRING 2014

Featured

May 27, 2014

Jessica Caldwell

Dig Deeper—An Interview with Keegan Wenkman

May 27, 2014

Jessica Caldwell

May 27, 2014

Jessica Caldwell

May 19, 2014

Emily Oliva

Emily Katz—Workshop Recap

May 19, 2014

Emily Oliva

May 19, 2014

Emily Oliva

Apr 7, 2014

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Book Release & Workshop with Mary Kate McDevitt

Apr 7, 2014

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Apr 7, 2014

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Apr 3, 2014

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RECAP—March sXc with Blaine Fontana

Apr 3, 2014

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Apr 3, 2014

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Apr 2, 2014

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Drop Cap Girl— sXc with Jessica Hische

Apr 2, 2014

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Apr 2, 2014

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Mar 26, 2014

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Punk Rock Modern—An Interview with Dan Stiles

Mar 26, 2014

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Mar 26, 2014

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Mar 17, 2014

Guest Contributor

Macramé Workshop with Emily Katz

Mar 17, 2014

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Mar 17, 2014

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Mar 12, 2014

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Book Release with Best Selling Author Austin Kleon

Mar 12, 2014

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Mar 12, 2014

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Mar 11, 2014

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Recap—Vance Feldman sXc

Mar 11, 2014

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Mar 11, 2014

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WINTER 2014

Featured

Feb 26, 2014

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Balancing Act—An Interview with Blaine Fontana

Feb 26, 2014

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Feb 26, 2014

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Feb 19, 2014

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RECAP—Discovery Workshop with Jessica Swift

Feb 19, 2014

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Feb 19, 2014

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Jan 28, 2014

Jessica Caldwell

February sketchXchange—Vance Feldman

Jan 28, 2014

Jessica Caldwell

Jan 28, 2014

Jessica Caldwell

Jan 14, 2014

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RECAP—January sketchXchange with Maryanna Hoggatt

Jan 14, 2014

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Jan 14, 2014

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Jan 13, 2014

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Surface Pattern Design Workshop with Jessica Swift

Jan 13, 2014

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Jan 13, 2014

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Dec 23, 2013

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Little Wolf and the Animal Battle—An Interview with Maryanna Hoggatt

Dec 23, 2013

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Dec 23, 2013

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WeMake is a non-profit 501(c)(3) that helps to foster art and design in Portland's creative community through hands-on experiences, creative dialogue, and design in action initiatives. Come make it happen.

How cute are these prints @_Marisol_Ortega made in the DISRUPT Risograph Workshop this morning with @outletpdx .… https://t.co/i69xl4YGYr
about 16 hours ago
You got to have the right sign painting hand set up to make them letters clean :) #wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts… https://t.co/4Ze4s1bV5u
about 16 hours ago

Kicking off our Papercraft/Animation Workshop with Tommy Perez! .
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#wemakepdx #wemakecelebtates #wemakedisrupts

WeMakes Celebrates with our 4th annual design conference on the process of making. Tomorrow night is more than that, it’s a celebration of the Portland design community and our 7th Anniversary!! We are beyond thankful to have a tribe that supports our efforts for design-in-action and our goal to be a platform to give back to arts education. Thank you, thank you for taking this journey with us!! This years conference theme is reminder to be a disruptor, to bend the rules, or make a few new ones. Please join us as we get a little radical in the @portlandartmuseum and DISRUPT the place, just a bit.

#wemakcelebrates #wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #forartsake #portland #pdxdesign #pdxart #pdxmakers #madeinpdx

Sign Painting Workshop! Local artist and sign painter Travis Wheeler will be teaching a workshop as part of the DISRUPT Conference. There are a few spots left! Grab your ticket via our site or the link above, and check out Travis’s feed for more goodness. @borrowed_times_pdx .
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#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #madeinpdx #pdxdesign #pdxart #handlettering #lettering #youcaninportland

Christins Lonsdale is Radiant Human. She takes pictures of your aura. ✨ See her glowing as she shares a bit about her process on the Main Stage of DISRUPT, Friday night 10/19. ✨
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#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #pdxart #pdxphotographer #auraglow #pdxdesign

What is Future Fonts and how do they disrupt? Find out next Friday night when Creative Director Lizy Gershenzon of @futurefonts and @scribbletone takes the stage at DISRUPT-A design conference exploring disruption in art & design, and how it affects process and the work. DISRUPT, DISRUPT, DISRUPT! .
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#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #typography #typedesign #designthinking #youcaninportland #pdxdesign

As part of the DISRUPT design conference we have a 5x5 presentation featuring 5 entrepreneurs rocking Portland’s creative scene. This year Anja Charbonneau the founder and creative director of @broccoli_mag will be joining us. We hope you can too! Find out more and grab your tickets (via our site) to the main stage in the Grand Ballroom at The Portland Art Museum on 10/19! .
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#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #madeinpdx #pdxmakers #pdxdesign #cannabisculture

GIVEAWAY! We’re giving away 2 tickets to Friday Nights Main Stage at DISRUPT–A Design Conference on 10/19 in the Grand Ballroom at @portlandartmuseum
To win, via Instagram or Facebook:
1. Tell us whose work you find disruptive in a good way. It could be your own or another’s. Why does it appeal to you?
2. Tag a friend

Winners announced this Friday! .
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#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #pdxdesign #pdxart #designconference #disruptor

Kicking off our Papercraft/Animation Workshop with Tommy Perez! .
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#wemakepdx #wemakecelebtates #wemakedisrupts

WeMakes Celebrates with our 4th annual design conference on the process of making. Tomorrow night is more than that, it’s a celebration of the Portland design community and our 7th Anniversary!! We are beyond thankful to have a tribe that supports our efforts for design-in-action and our goal to be a platform to give back to arts education. Thank you, thank you for taking this journey with us!! This years conference theme is reminder to be a disruptor, to bend the rules, or make a few new ones. Please join us as we get a little radical in the @portlandartmuseum and DISRUPT the place, just a bit.

#wemakcelebrates #wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #forartsake #portland #pdxdesign #pdxart #pdxmakers #madeinpdx

Tomorrow night hear from Katy Ann Gilmore a visual artist who’s work multiples through intersecting lines and consist planar geometries, creating spatial impressions far larger than the sum of their minimal parts. She is a disruptor, are you? .
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#wemakedisrupts
#forartssake #wemakepdx #designthinking #pdxmaker #pdxdesign #pdxart #madeinpdx

Tomorrow night hear from keynote Loveis Wise as shares her journey into the world of illustration, believing in her inner strength and finding her unique voice in cosmic somethings. She is a disruptor, are you?
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#wemakedisrupts
#forartssake #wemakepdx #designthinking #pdxmaker #pdxdesign #pdxart #madeinpdx

Tomorrow night hear from Soleil Hall aka Bella as she shares her righteous words with thoughtful power and strength. She is a disruptor, are you?
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#wemakedisrupts
#forartssake #wemakepdx #designthinking #pdxmaker #pdxdesign #pdxart #madeinpdx

Tomorrow night hear from Anja Charbonneau of Broccoli Magazine and how it has lit up the cannabis world in a highly Inspired way. She is a disruptor, are you? .
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#wemakedisrupts
#forartssake #wemakepdx #designthinking #pdxmaker #pdxdesign #pdxart #madeinpdx

Tomorrow night hear from Lizy Gershenzon of Future Fonts and how they are approaching type design in bold, and never regular ways. She is a disruptor, are you?
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#wemakedisrupts
#forartssake #wemakepdx #designthinking #pdxmaker #pdxdesign #pdxart #madeinpdx

Tomorrow night hear from keynote Tommy Perez as he shares his cutting edge process of manipulating paper to take on new form. He is a disruptor, are you?
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#wemakedisrupts
#forartssake #wemakepdx #designthinking #pdxmaker #pdxdesign #pdxart #madeinpdx

Tomorrow night hear from Amy Dragon, she brings the sonic goals of musicians to life. She is a disruptor, are you?
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#wemakedisrupts
#forartssake #wemakepdx #designthinking #pdxmaker #pdxdesign #pdxart #madeinpdx

Tomorrow night hear from Brianna Grigsby, a young woman who shares stories through words spoken in poetic verse. She is a disruptor, are you?
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#wemakedisrupts
#forartssake #wemakepdx #designthinking #pdxmaker #pdxdesign #pdxart #madeinpdx

Tomorrow night, hear from Christina Lonsdale of Radiant Human, and her journey into developing stories through capturing peoples auras. She is a disruptor, are you?
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#wemakedisrupts
#forartssake #wemakepdx #designthinking #pdxmaker #pdxdesign #pdxart #madeinpdx

Tomorrow night, hear from Luz Elena Mendoza of Y La Bamba. She’ll talk about themes of searching and metamorphosis, and of her exploration and identity as a Mexican woman. She’ll sing for us with a voice that is like a musical instrument–melodic and otherworldly.
She is a disruptor, are you? .
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#wemakedisrupts
#forartssake #wemakepdx #designthinking #pdxmaker #pdxdesign #pdxart #madeinpdx

Sign Painting Workshop! Local artist and sign painter Travis Wheeler will be teaching a workshop as part of the DISRUPT Conference. There are a few spots left! Grab your ticket via our site or the link above, and check out Travis’s feed for more goodness. @borrowed_times_pdx .
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#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #madeinpdx #pdxdesign #pdxart #handlettering #lettering #youcaninportland

WeMake Celebrates with our community sponsors, and their dedication to support arts education for under-served youth. As a volunteer run non-profit we could not do without their generous contributions to bring this years DISRUPT conference to light . THANK YOU, THANK YOU 🙏🏾🙏🏽🙏🏼
@portlandartmuseum @wkstudiopdx @enterthestudy @swiftcollective @adobe @shop_serra @widmerbrothers @wcp_solutions @mohawkpaper @scoutbooks @artfulvenues
#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #wemakecelebrates #community #pdxmakers #pdxdesign #pdxart #pdxnow #madeinpdx

ON THE BLOG TODAY- an interview with keynote speaker Tommy Perez. @t_rez will be teaching a Papercraft/ Stopmotion animation workshop as part of the DISRUPT conference on 10/20. Sign up and register via our link above or on our site. Only a few spots left! “ I think you get so much from making the physical piece, the imperfections, the charm. All that character and love that gets transferred from your hands to the paper piece is something that’s extremely difficult to translate in a rendering.” #wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #papercraft #donuts #happeninginpdx #youcaninportland #stopmotion

Christins Lonsdale is Radiant Human. She takes pictures of your aura. ✨ See her glowing as she shares a bit about her process on the Main Stage of DISRUPT, Friday night 10/19. ✨
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#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #pdxart #pdxphotographer #auraglow #pdxdesign

What is Future Fonts and how do they disrupt? Find out next Friday night when Creative Director Lizy Gershenzon of @futurefonts and @scribbletone takes the stage at DISRUPT-A design conference exploring disruption in art & design, and how it affects process and the work. DISRUPT, DISRUPT, DISRUPT! .
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#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #typography #typedesign #designthinking #youcaninportland #pdxdesign

As part of the DISRUPT design conference we have a 5x5 presentation featuring 5 entrepreneurs rocking Portland’s creative scene. This year Anja Charbonneau the founder and creative director of @broccoli_mag will be joining us. We hope you can too! Find out more and grab your tickets (via our site) to the main stage in the Grand Ballroom at The Portland Art Museum on 10/19! .
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#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #madeinpdx #pdxmakers #pdxdesign #cannabisculture

GIVEAWAY! We’re giving away 2 tickets to Friday Nights Main Stage at DISRUPT–A Design Conference on 10/19 in the Grand Ballroom at @portlandartmuseum
To win, via Instagram or Facebook:
1. Tell us whose work you find disruptive in a good way. It could be your own or another’s. Why does it appeal to you?
2. Tag a friend

Winners announced this Friday! .
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#wemakepdx #wemakedisrupts #pdxdesign #pdxart #designconference #disruptor

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