Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?

Reading Frenzy Show * Internet Hiatus

 

My first Portland Show! 

For the opening I will be drawing people's favorite object and/or what they bought today and/or a receipt in their wallet for FREE! First come first serve. I promise to draw until my hand cramps and a smile is on every face.

Links:

Reading Frenzy

Facebook Invite

Also, I am checking out for awhile to prepare for my How Presentation and for this show!

Portland State AND Mississippi State in HOW Magazine

PSU was listed as one of three design schools that should be on your radar. My old school Mississippi State was also listed and my former student/intern Will Bryant was listed as one of the 17 rising stars in the issue as well. 

Got to say, pretty proud and pretty pumped about this. 

HOW Conference * Webby Illustrations * Jen Bekman Group Show * Dialogue

Zooming off to the How Conference  in Austin in a few days. If you are attending say HI! I am speaking about craftivism on Thursday at 3:45 (no idea what room, at this point). (see my silly face above? EVIDENCE that I will be there).

The Jen Bekman summer group show, Summer Reading is coming up. I just shipped my piece off. Opens on the 15th of July.

The full set of illustrations that I created for the Webby Awards Booklet is up on my flickr. Check them out if you are curious!

Design For Mankind - Dialogue Episode 14 from Design For Mankind on Vimeo.

and I was in another Dialogue video! FUN!!

Not a Daily Drawing: Work for The Webby Awards and w+k

So I have been working with a team over at Wieden + Kennedy the past month or so on illustrations for the Webby Award Book that was handed out at the awards ceremony tonight. I haven't seen the actual book yet, but thanks to Twitter search I found this photo snapped by Mike Relm saying that it is the best drawing of him ever. SWEET! I also drew Jimmy Fallon, Trent Reznor, Sarah Silverman, Lisa Kudrow, Seth Meyers, Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Seth MacFarlane. Can't wait to see the actual book!

New Dialogue Video is UP!

New Dialogue Episode! 

From top left to right clockwise: Lovely Erin: designformankind.com, Pia Jane Bijkerk: blog.piajanebijkerk.com/, me :) and Jen Gotch: jengotch.com/

Watch the Video HERE: 

www.designformankind.com/2009/04/overcoming-artists-block/

Design*Sponge / Handmade Nation / School / BRB

Just peeking my head above water a bit to say hello and to let you know that there will be drawing updates this weekend. I am still getting a grip on my classes and this quarter at school and am now recovering from the big Handmade Nation events of this past weekend. Yikes! Just a few things of note: Our apartment was featured on design*sponge last week. Here is a full set of the photos over on flickr too.

Mr. Garth "extreme craft" Johnson, stayed with us durning the HMN weekend and he showed off his lovely handmade (by his lovely wife Claire) Nannerpuss embroidered shirt.

On Sunday I participated in my first Crafty Wonderland. It was great!! Look ---> 37 months worth of zines!

OH! and the Museum of  Contemporary Craft is showcasing all of my original drawings from the Handmade Nation Book in their community showcase case. It will be up until the 18th! 

One last thing...check out the flickr set that the museum put together of everyone showing off their handmade at the movie screenings...super fun! ----> SHOW US YOUR DIY!

And really, I will BRB soon, soon, soon. Got to go record some grades now.

Last Handmade Nation Promo Teaser! HOLLA!

The WONDERFUL Byrd over at Porter Panther zipped the last Handmade Nation Portland Promo video over to me today and I can't wait to share it with you all. The weekend is gearing up! So excited to see Faythe and Garth (I cleaned all of the dog hair off our couch for you Mr. Johnson!) and Betsy (whom I have never met before, yet have been internet friends for years). 

Check out the video. It's me talking about my STUFF. ha!

Handmade Nation * New School Quarter * W+K Radio

 

Hey! Check out the teaser video that was put together by the amazing Porter Panther of PDX. This is one of three promotional videos that were filmed to support the screening of Handmade Nation next weekend.

Also, three cheers for the internet AND the Portland Design and Craft community for being so damn generous with the donations for the Handmade Nation Friday Night Swag Bags. 

Check out most of what went into the bags here!

More information and a full list of the bag participants here!

Helping organize this has been such a great experience and I truly truly love the Museum of Contemporary Craft and the people who work there! 

The third quarter at Portland State starts tomorrow and I have been busy getting ready for my three new classes. Check out the rad Contemporary Projects class that I am going to be teaching tomorrow at 9 in the morning. I will post links to my Typography and Digital Imaging classes soon (I teach those on Tuesday, so I still have time to prep, RIGHT? - not enough time, my friends, not enough time).

Oh, I will be joining the lovely Susan Beal  and the equally lovely Jill Bliss on w+k radio this friday talking about Handmade Nation! Tune in if you want! okay, back to getting ready for SCHOOL!

Design for Mankind Dialogue! // Back from DC // Get to Work Lady!

The lovely Erin over at Design for Mankind posted up the latest Dialogue episode. 

Happy to be sharing the screen with Erin, Meighan O'Toole from My Love For You is a Stampede of Horses and Will Bryant - super friend and former student/intern extraordinary! 

Link to the video: www.designformankind.com/2009/03/how-does-your-family-rea... 

Erin: designformankind.com 

Meighan: myloveforyou.typepad.com/ 

Will: will-bryant.com

Today I am working on catching up! Working on a map of the Hamptons for Madewell, then grading and then school prepping for the new quarter which starts a week from today! Also, need to work on some illustrations for the Portland Handmade Nation events! Soon! Soon! Oh! and I need to assemble and send out the February zines (just got some new toner in, so the production is no longer on hold). Wait, this post is turning into a to-do list and that is just no fun for anyone to read. Okay, back to work!

Shiny Happy People

Miss Bonnie drawn for the Dallas Map.

I went through all of my Madewell work and isolated all of the people in attempts to get me jazzed about drawing more PEOPLE as well as purchased objects. However, no purchase needed when I draw people.

That would be WEIRD. In many ways that I choose to NOT go into.

Rilo Kiley drawn for a never published Madewell invitation. 

More portraits HERE

More Madewell HERE