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Turn off the Bright Lights: Earth Hour 2008
Have you heard about Earth Hour 2008?
At 8 pm on Saturday March 29 (tomorrow!) people around the world, from Sydney to Bankok, Tel Aviv to Atlanta, will turn off their lights for one ho…
Better Living Show
Come join us at the Better Living Show at the Expo Center, which starts today at noon. Spaces will have a booth; buy a magazine for a $1.
The show, which focuses on su…
Design for the Dogs (and Cats)
For those of you that know me well, you knew this was coming. It’s time to look at design for dogs and cats. I’m convinced you don’t need those gaudy cat trees in your houses/apartments or schlumpy dog beds that take up a ton of space. Really. But there’s …
Lust-Worthy: Anthropologie
Anthropologie, my favorite guilty pleasure, has a new exclusive home design catalog, filled with gorgeous bedding, headboards, ...
Get Green Starter Kits
In an effort to spread some green love, I gave reusable tote bags for Christmas gifts this year. It was between those and Sigg water bottles, but my mom …
Kids Design, Part Deux
When I was a kid, I imagined my dream bedroom: It had a turret I could climb up to reach the roof, a window seat, a skylight, and a nook for my bed with a window above it. My dream house had a wrap-around porch. Minus the turret (I must’ve grown out of tha…
Bike Box: Why the Hyphen?
Ok, just warning you: This has nothing to do with design. Or maybe it does? Regardless, does anyone have any idea why there’s a hyphen between “Wait Here” in Portland’s new bike box on SE Hawthorne and 7th?
I mean, re…
Get Crafty! with Ellen Lupton
Grace at Design Sponge had a great post recently about the modern American Craft movement. Our most-recent Desirables column in Spaces (check out our se…
Kids Design!
One good thing about reality TV shows: Some of them actually feature people who know what they’re doing. (Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you can’t honestly claim the contestants on Bravo’s Project Runway...
Home Furnishings Sale in the Pearl
Need to go furniture shopping? Head to the Pearl this weekend for their first annual Home Furnishings Sample Sale. It runs tomorrow through March 22. More than 20 stores, including “JD Ma…
MoMA's Color Chart
Take a quick break, and visit the Museum of Modern Art’s Color Chart website, and like me, wish that we had an exhibition like this here in Portland…
A Peek Inside: Another Great Window Display
As a hopeless window shopper (it’s much easier on the wallet) I’m loving finding new candidates for Design District’s window display feature. It’s really made me look a little more closely on how shop owners present their product in clever ways. Case in po…
Concrete + Glass
In our January issue of Spaces, we featured some great new Luna tiles from Ann Sacks. They were a collaboration with Ann Sacks and …
Vote for Portland!
Portland’s made it on the short list of Travel+Leisure magazine’s poll of America’s Favorite Cities, based on dining, shopping, culture, nightlife and people. If you’re interested in vot…
Big Sale at Design Within Reach
Time to go furniture shopping: Kathleen at Design Within Reach sent me an email about DWR’s semi-annual sale that started yesterday and runs through March 18. Bot…
A Peek Inside: Great Window Displays
I want to start a new recurring feature on The Design District to show off great window displays around Portland. I love window shopping, and I tend to get some great decorating inspiration purely from clever window designs.
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Guru of Green, Danny Seo
You know how I love a good Q&A with a designer. Today, I’m pretty thrilled to share a quick conversation I had with Danny Seo, perhaps today’s biggest media darling of the green lifestyle movement. He’s a designer, author, blogger…
Artwork made from your DNA
Here’s something to file away if you’re looking for completely original artwork:
DNA 11 is a company based out of South Beach, Florida, that makes artwork based off your DNA. Yup. You send them a collection of your DNA (you swab the …
