April 2012
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Thank You Portland!!
TEDxPortland’s second annual event has just wrapped up, and WHAT a year!!! THANK YOU to our ever-inspiring and passionate list of speakers, the performers who left us awe-struck… the sponsors who enabled it to happen, and each and every one of the 45 volunteers who pulled it all together.
We will be back again next year… and would love to hear from you before then! Help us...
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Jason Sturgil for #TEDxPDX
Jason G. Sturgil READ BETWEEN THE SIGNS (2012) Jason Sturgill is a culture worker with a background in advertising, design and various curatorial practices. Having worked for Wieden+Kennedy, Dark Horse Comics, Laika, and Nike along with running his own online art gallery has heavily influenced his art practice which centers around the intersection of art and local business. Sturgill is...
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Robb Harskamp for #TEDxPDX
Robb Harskamp 77 Burnside (2012) Acrylic on Metal “The steel door was battered and the building leaked, but the vision that was inside 77 Burnside Street was something that would change Portland’s business scene forever. Going back to that original battered steel door seemed like an authentic representation of what TEDxPORTLAND is all about.” Check this art piece out in...
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Ryan Bubnis for #TEDxPDX
Ryan Bubnis Keep Doodlin’ & Dreamin’ (2012) Limited Edition Giclee Print Ryan Bubnis’ work has been described as “modern folk.” Through his paintings, installations, design and mural work, he comments on themes relating to the human condition. Bubnis’ work has been featured in publications such as Vapors, Juxtapoz and IdN magazines. Some of his clients include Kidrobot, Nike, 20th Century...
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Todd Lown for #TEDxPDX
Todd Lown TIMBER, GREEN, GOLD, FELL (2012) Enamel on Wood Todd Lown was born in Seattle, Washington, later attending the University of Washington he earned a BFA in Printmaking. Todd has created works for skateboards, public art murals, and hand-painted signs. He has shown original art in Dusseldorf, Antwerp, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Over the past few years he has...
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Jesse Brown for #TEDxPDX
Jesse Brown Home Turf (2012) Enamel on wood Jesse Brown is a multidisciplinary Artist / Designer and Co-Creative Director of the brand Sausage Skateboards based in Seattle, Washington. His work has been exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, Barcelona, Tokyo, Berlin, London and Paris. He is known for working in a variety of mediums including drawing,...
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Klutch for #TEDxPDX
Klutch Cascadiascope (2012) Acrylic and Aerosol on Wood Klutch has been creating visual mischief for over three decades. From his work with the early 1980’s hardcore punk scene and the legendary Skull Skates, to painting backgrounds for Vogue ads, his work has appeared around the world on t-shirts, skateboards, city walls, magazines, and galleries. In 2005 the suite he created at San...
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Eugene Serebrennikov for #TEDxPDX
Eugene Serebrennikov MAKE YOUR OWN PATH (2012) birch wood Hailing from New York, New York, Eugene Serebrennikov recently migrated to the left coast (for greener pastures and rainier skies). Before designing at Nike’s graphic studio, he got his start designing album covers and gig posters for bands such as Rage Against the Machine, Phish, and Citizen Cope. http://HYP-INC.com/ “The...
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Aithan Shapira for #TEDxPDX
Aithan Shapira, PhD Impressions: Two Balloons Remain (2012) 5 Cement Panels Shapira’s work challenges contemporaries to celebrate today’s cubist problem - the urgent need to know all you are not seeing, be simultaneously inside and outside, in history and the present. A first generation American, Shapira is a rising artist exhibited among international museums and private...
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Adam Garcia for #TEDxPDX
Adam Garcia Movement/Moment Printed booklet. Edition of 30 Adam R Garcia is a director, designer and illustrator at the Portland-based multidisciplinary studio, The Pressure. A native of Minneapolis, his work spans aesthetic in the fields of design, identities, illustration, events, gallery exhibits and packaging. His conceptual and process-driven approach creates emotive results, with a...
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Ah-Ha! for #TEDxPDX
Ah-Ha! (Hingyi Khong/Anne Cote) Cascadia Effect (2012) Acrylic on a platform Ah-Ha! is a collaborative effort of Anne Cote and Hingyi Khong. Drawing from their own individual experiences and aesthetics, a combination has arisen that has led to new processes, interpretations and shared views of what’s next. Challenged with the task of collaboration, Ah-Ha! is becoming each designer’s...
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Berto Legendary H for #TEDxPDX
Berto Legendary H M.I.C. (Music Industry Conundrum) Neon Berto Legendary H is an independent designer and artist based in Portland, OR. He has been featured in Computer Arts Projects and numerous blogs for his typography. He spends his days studying typography, practicing calligraphy and always in search of the perfect ink & pen. www.bertolegendaryh.com “As the music industry slips...
Joel Colley for #TEDxPDX
Joel Colley Tinker (2012) Acrylic Paint on Canvas Joel is a graduate of Parkrose High School, the University of Oregon and Wieden+Kennedy’s in-house advertising program. his art has improved exponentially since being prescribed glasses in 2010. Joel listens to Obsessive Sneaker Disorder every week and currently works in a sterile operating room core. You can view Joel’s portfolio at...
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Ryan Caruthers for #TEDxPDX
Ryan Caruthers Bacon Maple Bar (2012) Mixed Media on Canvas Ryan Caruthers loves painting and drawing, but he also loves MS Paint, and has refused to change programs since his family purchased their first PC back in 1996. All of his graphics are outputted in the Windows 95 edition of MS Paint. His strength is the brush tool. www.undertowdesign.com “I moved to Portland 5 years ago from...
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TEDxPortland Art Show
What does Uncharted Territory look like in art? The 2012 TEDxPortland event is showcasing art from 21 Portland area artists, with each piece capturing a unique perspective on what the 2012 TEDxPortland theme Unchartered Territory means to them. All 21art pieces were unveiled at the 2012 TEDxPortland Launch Party back on March 20, and are currently on display at One Grand Gallery (1000 East...
