#behonest2012 #fogdpsu #fogd we made it! (Taken with instagram)
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Beachfront candlelight dinner. Perfecto! (Taken with Instagram at Mexico Lindo Y Que Rico)
Taken with Instagram at John Wayne Airport (SNA)
Taken with Instagram at Portland Farmer’s Market
Sun and pattern (Taken with Instagram at Portland Streetcar SW 11th & Clay)
Lecture with @jgspdx in my design thinking class today! Talking about art and social practice today! (Taken with Instagram at PSU Art Building (North Annex))
GOOD ideas for cities! (Taken with Instagram at Ziba Design)
Talking about push-pins! Process video from my Push It mural!
Corbin LaMont’s cool design thinking project! (Taken with Instagram at PSU Art Building (North Annex))
How rad is this book? Cloth cover and all?! Researching for my type project at the library… (Taken with instagram)
Friends of Graphic Design: What's Happening This Week! Tad Carpenter, Second Story, Creative Mornings!
Another nice mention from the Friends of Graphic Design! Thanks for the love!!
Holy cow it’s week FIVE!!! We have an awesome week lined up here at FoGD! Plus check out everything that’s happening here in our program, and around the city!
Thursday, February 9th
Show & Tell with Tad Carpenter (Video chat)
Noon | Room 160Tad Carpenter is an illustrator, designer…
Styled to a T: 22,480 Pins
Thanks to Tina for this lovely post!! She watched the evolution from beginning to end, and took some lovely photographs! <3
Last week, graphic design student Alie Kouzoukian installed this piece in the art annex at Portland State. Throughout the week, I witnessed her sit there for hours on end, pushing one pin in at a time. Each day, I was amazed by her progress and determination to…
I spent the last week working on a mural in the Art Annex at Portland State University. It was my tribute to the Wieden and Kennedy 12’s “Fail Harder” mural, which I found enormously inspiring when I visited their offices on a Friends of Graphic Design field trip last fall.
The mural was a part of an assignment for my Design Thinking class. My instructor, Nicole Lavelle, had us research someone or something that inspired us in the field of design. She gave us a huge list to begin with, and while I was interested in many people and places on the list, I immediately thought of W+K, and it seemed pretty obvious to me what needed to be done: Order a massive amount of thumbtacks, and get to work!
I ordered 30,000 thumbtacks (Thank you, Internet!), but only ended up using 22,480. I decided to do an update on the W+K wall by choosing rainbow translucent thumbtacks instead of clear, and using a hand lettered script to deliver my message, which is an oversized bad pun, “Push It.”
All told, the entire wall took around 20 hours of my time to install, and I had the help of 11 different people, at various times. It was a wonderful experiment in community, and I am so happy that the PSU Art Department was willing to let me take over one of their walls to make this happen! This is just another reason why I am proud to be a PSU Graphic Design major! If you happen to be in the neighborhood, the mural will be visible at 1990 SW 5th Avenue, beginning this Monday, February 6th.
Also, sending a big thank you to Tina Le for the lovely photos!
