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Follow this step by step guide to creating a fun cartoon style poster design. We’ll combine a quick character doodle with some bold and blocky text, then bring it to life with a muted colour palette and a mix of textures to give the poster an old and retro feel. The design I’ve created is [...]

IconDock have kindly donated another premium icon pack from their fantastic collection for Access All Areas members. Moi is a set of 268 high quality icons inspired by the iPhone app icons. They are especially designed to match with their free social media icons.IconDock is the place to … Log in to your Access All [...]

Follow this Illustrator design tutorial to create a super detailed sugar skull illustration made from lots of sweet vector elements. We’ll use a mix of basic and advanced Illustrator tools to build various decorative objects to slowly build up the features until we have an awesome looking skull design that pays homage to the Mexican [...]

Last week I introduced my new little Question Time video series. This week I run through a bunch of viewer submitted questions, including why designers use Macs, how I find my clients, how often I trim my eyebrows and what camera I use to record these things. This week’s questions Why do designers tend to [...]

The awesome folks from HelloCanvas have kindly arranged a special giveaway and discount code for Access All Areas members. See your favourite photo or best piece of artwork in prime position on your wall as a high quality 3cm framed canvas print. First place winner will receive a free 24×36 … Log in to your [...]

Using an unsuitable image resolution is one of the most popular errors designers make when creating designs for print. The result is a fuzzy print quality, or having your file is rejected by your local printer. If you don’t keep an eye on your image resolution right from the start you may end up having [...]

The great folks from Inkd have kindly arranged a huge 40% discount off everything in the Inkd store for premium members. Inkd is the best place to find design templates, Powerpoint templates, logos, online printing (including the new plastic cards) and other business collateral. Log in to your Access All Areas account to read the [...]

You’ve just unwrapped your brand new Wacom drawing tablet, but what’s next? Here’s a roundup of super useful articles and tutorials that take you through the process of setting up your pen tablet and give you tips and techniques on how to create some great looking illustrations or paintings. Setting up your Wacom tablet How [...]

This week I’m trying something a little different in place of the usual Weekly Faves roundup. It’s a ‘totally original’ idea that’s ‘never been done before’ (yeah, right!) – You ask a question, and I answer it! This week I run through a few commonly asked questions, such as how I got started in the [...]

When I saw the bad-ass poster design for the upcoming movie The Expendables, I just had to open up Photoshop and have a go at recreating it. Follow this step by step guide on how to create the menacing winged skull design for yourself, complete with an overkill of weaponry surrounding a sinister looking skull [...]

There is no shortage of documentation on WordPress’ famous content-spewing structure, but I still feel like there is more confusion and mystery surrounding “The Loop” than there should be. In this screencast I try and explain what it is, how it works, related parts, and then demonstrate some alterations and various tricks. Things like running [...]

When we first released the book Digging Into WordPress, we thought of some reasons why people might not want to buy it. A big reason is because tech books can go out of date quickly, especially when the subject is a fast-developing technology like WordPress. So, we fixed that. When you buy this book, you [...]

I’ve done my own The VERY Basics screencast, but this full series from Google, targeted at just-starting-out beginners, would be a good place to go directly after my intro, to take things further along. Direct Link to Article — Permalink

Using percentage values for certain things can have slightly unexpected results in WebKit based browsers. For instance, if you have a series of columns set in percentage widths with percentage padding, WebKit can calculate their sizing rather strangely. The red lines indicate the column as rendered with WebKit. The background shades of gray are accurate [...]

This is a direct link to a PowerPoint file by Steve Souders (in April 2009). Of particular interest is pages 19-33 with all the information on CSS selectors. Evidence points to yes, there are efficiency differences in how you write selectors. But efficient CSS can sometimes come at the cost of larger CSS (bad) and [...]

From the desk of important beginner concepts: You have a website with 100 pages on it. All 100 pages use the same style.css file. You’d like to change the background color of every single page. You make one adjustment in the CSS file, and that background color adjustment will be reflected across all 100 pages. [...]

One of the new types of inputs in HTML5 is search. <input type=search name=s> It does absolutely nothing in most browsers. It just behaves like a text input. This isn’t a problem. The spec doesn’t require it to do anything special. WebKit browsers do treat it a bit differently though, primarily with styling. A search [...]

Chrome users and CSS wranglers, check this out. It’s an extension which adds a “css” link on the right in your URL bar. Click it to open a CSS Edit-like pane on any website where you can click elements and adjust their CSS on the fly. The CSS that you edit will automatically be applied [...]

Have you ever tried to debug a site where a beginner web designer has loaded the page with scripts? There’s a couple copies of jQuery in various versions, maybe a little Prototype or MooTools thrown in. We can laugh a bit, but many of us went through that stage where we just didn’t really understand [...]

The Oscars of web nerdery. I’m nominated for a flatteringly high number of categories! Web personality of the year? You know it. Direct Link to Article — Permalink

When you publish something online, there are not that many ways to determine whether people like what you have to say. Comments, the cornerstone of blogging, are too demanding, and users often prefer not to post one. If you’ve dropped by Behance, you’ve probably noticed their appreciate badge, which is a neat solution to this [...]

One of the more interesting and fun aspects of iPad usage is the ability to effect change in a webpage by swiping a finger across the screen of the iPad. For example, swiping to the left to navigate to the next page in a series of pages, or swiping to display the next image in [...]

AddyOsmani is going to teach us how to create a useful hover-based user interface using jQuery, CSS3, HTML5 and @font-face. Why a hover-based interface? With the popularity of touch-based web applications simplifying the way that people can use sites on mobile devices, there’s room for us to look into ways of making it even easier [...]

Thank you for all of the participants of Giveaway 1 x Custom Logo Design By LogoBee. We are happy to announce the following winner. Congratulations. You will receive an email about how to claim your prize. Cody Lambrecht WebAppers will continue giving away some really nice web development tools and resources to our readers. Please [...]

The xcolor plugin is an easy-to-use jQuery extension to manipulate colors in all imaginable combinations. This plugin implements an extensiv color parser and a featureful set of color-manipulation methods. There is also an animate() extension to smooth CSS colors. Another useful method isReadable() completes the whole, by allowing you to check if a text is [...]

jQuery Image Scroller Plugin creates a scrollable interface to scroll over a large image in a smaller area. The idea is that we have a container with a fixed height and width, an image that is taller than the container, and a container for the thumbnail of that image. Once the plugin is applied, there [...]

It will take an awful lot of effort on Google’s part to tear most web developers away from their beloved Firefox, but with the number of web-developer-friendly extensions for Chrome on the rise, developers in increasing numbers are giving Chrome a try and some of them are not looking back. Chrome’s faster than Firefox, uses [...]

Anthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress 3.0 into a platform for publishing electronic texts. Grab posts from your WordPress blog, import feeds from external sites, or create new content directly within Anthologize. Then outline, order, and edit your work, crafting it into a single volume for export in several formats, including—in this [...]

Buddycons Icon Set includes includes 126 vector social media icons. Included in the set are PNG versions of all 126 icons in both circular and rounded variations as well as a vector source file for easy resizing. The original .ai file is included in the download! In order to be able to edit the raw [...]

Polymaps is a display and interaction library for tile-based vector and raster maps using SVG and Javascript. Their intent is to provide a minimal, extensible, customizable, and free display library for discriminating designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and [...]

David Stairs Kasule Kizito is not your everyday Ugandan. For one thing, he’s too direct. He says what he thinks without undue regard for taboos or political correctness. In an oral culture this of itself is amazing. For example, he’s the only African I know who’s not in ecstasies over Obama’s victory. Kizito had wanted [...]

Raymond Prucher “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” – Desiderius Erasmus Images taken at the Qalandia checkpoint inside the West Bank, well beyond the ‘Green Line’ that was set up by the 1949 Armistice. I became a designer in Palestine. In 2003, three years after we’d [...]

David Stairs I was trudging through my local neighborhood big-box megastore the other day en route to my weekly rendezvous with groceries when I found myself in what passes for the book section. This isn’t a Borders experience; more somewhere between B. Dalton and the magazine rack at the local regional airport. So I wasn’t [...]

David Stairs Ezio Manzini is an optimist. Four years ago he envisioned a design conference dedicated to the notion that although things must, will, and do change, perhaps we ought to spend more time planning that evolution. This vision was realized last week at the Changing the Change conference held in the World Design Capital [...]

Jesse Miller Outside “Casa Rosenda” Monterrey, Mexico The Architectural Masters Thesis. High expectations and the culmination of one’s educational career are commonly used to describe this thing that looms as the end of graduate school approaches. It is a thing that has much implied importance and historical baggage. Though all these factors that [...]

Victor Margolin One of the most privileged populations in America today is dolls. They are the beneficiaries of powerful forces of consumption that seek ever-new audiences for the plethora of goods that is available for sale. In earlier times, dolls were not thought to be such active participants in the consumption process. They were for [...]

Catherine Jo Ishino Hong Kong and PRC Design from the Reform Era (ca.1978) In the next two sections, I will explore how China’s marketplace, citizenry, and identity have begun to transform with its entry into the overarching globalization narrative that has been taking place since the last part of the 20th century. Specifically, I will [...]

Since June, Wang Jing in Nanjing and AGI member Robert Appleton in Toronto have been working on an international exhibition of design, art and music to benefit the survivors of the Sichuan earthquake. It opens in Nanjing this Sunday for one week only. “5:12 CHINA’S MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE. A COMMEMORATIVE EXHIBITION.” includes works donated by over [...]

Victor Margolin Most anthropologists would agree that the number of languages in the world is declining. This is particularly true for those spoken by small communities that over the years have either dwindled to a few survivors or become extinct. While it is common for languages spoken by large groups to overwhelm those spoken by [...]

by Victor Margolin Anyone with doubts about Barak Obama’s ability to lead the United States should look at how he has run his campaign. Whereas John McCain’s considerably smaller organization has imploded more than once and is now in the process of self-destructing – riven with accusations and recriminations from within – Obama’s army of [...]

PrintedPiece is doing a huge giveaway of 10 Premium Accounts and 1 Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen! To enter this giveaway go to http://giveaway.printedpiece.com/ Company Proile Printed Piece is a website where you can find print design inspiration from everything from corporate identity, collateral, apparel, posters, banners, logos, brochures, postcards, mugs, mouse pads, stickers, and much, [...]

Today I have put together the largest collection of free Photoshop patterns DesignM.ag has ever offered. Enjoy! Flowers Patters for Photoshop (6) Photoshop Patterns Photoshop Patterns (12) Victorian – PS Patterns (45) Vintage Patterns (12) Arabic Patterns for Photoshop (4) Grandmas Flowers (4) Paisley Seamless Paper Patterns (6) Grungy Abstract Squares Photoshop Patterns (4) Tileable [...]

A showcase of websites that effectively use the current trend of making your websites look handmade Visit Source

This is the eighth edition of Be Inspired and the last one for a fortnight while I’m off on holiday in the Lake District, and there isn’t an Internet connection where I’m staying, I’m sure I’ll cope now I have my shiny iPhone with 3G connection. Anyway, this collection is all nice and full of [...]

We have gathered an awesome little collection of free fonts. These are novelty styled fonts that must be added to your collection. To download the font just click on the picture and it will take you to the download page. These fonts are completely free for commercial and personal use, and will look great on [...]

This article features 40 fresh and useful articles from all around the web for the web and graphic designers. Please share your comments and thoughts in the comments section below. Your feedback is really important for us. Visit Source

Pink websites, pink logos, pink photos, pink packaging and more in many different varieties and on many different mediums. From dark pink to light pink and all kinds of shades in-between. Visit Source

Using the shape appropriate to the business being operated can be one important element in creating a logo design. The shape on logo used to represented the kind of business or service behind it. With it so target clients can easily know the type of business being offered. Visit Source

The 3D technology or three-dimensional graphics has rushed into a modern visual art a few decades ago and has already evolved into a stand-alone industry, which sets new standards not only in engineering and computer modeling, but in entertainment as well. Visit Source

Portable Applications are really helpful because you can run them on any computer. They are compatible with every operating system. You don’t have to install them before using them. These applications are fast and reliable. Visit Source

A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign.  Sometimes a redesign can be subtle and simple, and other times it can be a huge re-vamp of a company and it’s goals. [...]

Demo & Info That’s right, we’ve worked on a Joomla Theme. Although we love WordPress we realize it’s not everybodies’ first choice of CMS. So we felt it was only fair to make something just as pretty as our WordPress themes for the Joomla people. The result, Hallmark, a premium Joomla theme ideal for running [...]

Everyone knows that WordPress is one of the most, if not the most, popular blogging systems on the internet today. With its out of the box features, plugins, and great theming community, its no wonder WordPress has been accepted as today’s standard. However, sometimes you just want to add a little more. It seems the [...]

Another collaboration between ourselves and WooThemes, the result: this stunning theme with optional layouts. We’ve realized, that while a lot of people no doubt love magazine style themes – there are still a lot of people who would like the option of having something a little more personal. So here you have it! As always [...]

A while ago we had the pleasure of working with DreamTemple for a WordPress Theme which they’ve given away for free on Smashing Magazine. That means you can get this beautiful and unique theme for free, from the king of freebies Smashing Magazine. We’re very happy to once again have some of our work featured [...]

This set of free characters is ideal for adding a little personality into your designs. With a variety of actions and poses to chose from you can easily adapt them into your designs anywhere you feel needs it. Inject a little fun into your dull and boring help pages, emphasize a feature or a button [...]

Creating a website is no easy task. WordPress is an easy solution for creating a Blog, but sometimes something a little more, in terms of functionality, is needed. After trying many other platforms, I have found WordPress to be the easiest to use. Because of it’s wide array of themes, great plugin system, and easy [...]

Ahh yes, the Design Community. I love it! This is the topic of a recent guest post I wrote over at MyInkBlog. Below is an extract from the article, but you can read the full the article here. Please leave your feedback and comments on the actual post rather than here. Why I love the [...]

Demo & Info To celebrate the launch of Theme Forest and our new theme Evo, we’re giving away 5 sets of $25 credit to be used on any theme on the site. Find out more at the end of the post. The theme is ideal for either being used straight out of the box, or [...]

Demo & Info First off, I’d just like to introduce myself. My name is Spencer, and I am the lead developer here at Function. I’m the guy that takes Liam’s awesome designs, and turns them into working sites. Liam had this design laying around, and I knew I couldn’t let it go to waste. So, [...]

Internships are an awesome way to gain experience and to learn about being a designer in the real world. Most are mainly summer internships, but there are definitely internships that extend throughout the school year. Typically, students aren’t expected to score internships until their third year, but it’s not uncommon to find young designers landing [...]

Greetings friends, This is Steve Knerem and I’m a freelance illustrator from Cleveland, Ohio that specializes in hand drawn art used for apparel and editorial pieces.  You can view my work at www.steveknerem.com. When asked by Go Media to write some tutorials about work I’ve done, I was more than excited to help others who are in the process [...]

This interview was initially published in the Go Media Forum but we decided it was relevant to all our GoMediaZine readers as well. Ray Frenden the Artist. I think it’s necessary to put this all in context with a brief overview of the insane force of nature that is your work. What is it that [...]

Not many Adobe Illustrators are aware of the plug-in functionality of Adobe Illustrator. I don’t believe it’s promoted very well. There’s not a good one-stop shop to find plug-ins in one place, with reviews and user feedback. And it’s a shame, because there are many killer plug-ins out there for Illustrator. Today I want to introduce [...]

Hey I’m Jeff Finley and I’m going to show you how to make an iconic poster using the new Vector Set 18 from Go Media’s Arsenal. I sent out an email to all our Arsenal customers and the two things they wanted most were more tutorials and to show real-world usage of our products. What [...]

Hey everyone!   My name’s Max and I’m one of Go Media’s interns for this summer.  I’ve been here since early July but this is my first post for our Zine.  I’ve bounced around several of Cleveland’s fine institutions of higher education and am currently a junior at Cleveland State University studying promotional communication, mass [...]

Hi Everyone! I’ve been at GoMedia for a couple of weeks and I figured it was high time I introduced myself. I’m Joanne, one of GoMedia’s interns for this summer. A little bit about me: I will be a third year student (oh, how time has flown…) at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design pursuing a [...]

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glossy TV style RSS feed icon using the basic Photoshop functions like, Layer Styles, Layer Masks and Filters. Take a look at the image we will be creating in this tutorial. Step 1 Create a new document with 500px by 378px canvas. Set the background [...]

A quick round up of some interesting new and updated Mac utilities of interest to creative tpyes. Photoshop Automator Actions 5.0 (free/$19.95) A package of Actions that lets you control many of Photoshop’s most common functions from within Mac OS X’s Automator, letting you add Photoshop functionality to your Automator workflows. If you find them [...]

Hey Go Media faithful readers! Time for a sweet new tutorial! I always feel like it’s been WAY too long since I’ve written one of these tutorials. Unfortunately, my schedule doesn’t leave much room for writing these lengthy t-shirt design tutorials. But when my good friend, client, photographer, and all-around great guy Paul Davis from [...]

HTML5 is the thing to talk about these day. Today, we have a collection of some ridiculously impressive HTML5 canvas-based experiments that will make you say, “Wow!” Let’s take a peek at some of the latest, cutting edge examples out there. 1. 8 Bit Color Cycle 2. Particle Letter Animation 3. Cloth Experiment This is [...]

In today’s video quick tip, we’ll be reviewing JavaScript’ logical AND operator. Those of you who are just beginning to get into JavaScript, or even a library like jQuery, might not realize that they can even be used as micro if statements! Subscribe to our YouTube page to watch all of the video tutorials! Example [...]

In today’s quick tip screencast, we’re going to learn a MySQL query trick. You might be already familiar with the SUM() and IF() functions. We will be combining them to come up with some useful queries. This can reduce the number of queries you need to run for fetching certain types of summary data, and [...]

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a slick email signup form. This form will harness the full power of AJAX, meaning that we will submit data to the server, validate it, and receive a response – all without a single page refresh! Along the way, you should pick up some useful tips related [...]

We’ve just launched the Tuts+ Marketplace, where Premium quality tutorials – both from our Tuts+ Premium program and from unaffiliated authors – are available to purchase individually. Our Tuts+ Premium program will still stay exactly the same – you’ll get all the same things, for the same price. But now, non-members will be able to [...]

In chapter five of this series, we jumped into the muddy world of event listeners. In that episode, we only got our feet wet; however, today, we’ll take things a step further as we implement a far more efficient solution. Along the way, we’ll learn a plethora of new techniques. As with every JavaScript from [...]

In this episode of “ASP.NET from Scratch,” we’ll ditch WebForms in favor of ASP.NET MVC. You’ll get a taste of ASP.NET MVC and recreate a EmailForm application using the MVC framework! The Complete Series Lesson 1: Getting Started Lesson 2: Improving an Email Form Lesson 3: Class Inheritance Lesson 4: SQL Server Lesson 5: Master [...]

Years ago, I learned a deceptively simple “assert” function from John Resig, for testing your JavaScript. Amazingly, at barely five or six lines, this code provides a great level of power and control over your code, when testing. I’ll show you how to use it in today’s video quick tip. Screencast Premium Members: Download this [...]

For four years the Envato Marketplaces have helped authors around the world earn an income selling their digital wares. Along the way we’ve grown from one marketplace to seven, with more on the way. We’ve gone from hundreds of members to hundreds of thousands. Items from our marketplaces have appeared in projects for companies big [...]

If you’ve been hanging around Nettuts+ for long, you probably know that it’s only one small piece of the huge Envato ecosystem. If you’re interested in becoming a more efficient developer, you’ll want to check out these incredible WordPress, CSS, JavaScript, .NET, and PHP components — all ready to drop into your latest project. WordPress [...]

On August 1st we launched Vandelay Premier, a membership-based site that provides high-quality design resources and career resources. A lot has happened during our first month of operation, including the release of 19 new resources/packs! This post serves as a monthly roundup to display the new resources that are available for our members, as well [...]

Today we released a set of ink splatter vectors on Vandelay Premier and in this post we will be covering the process of creating these vectors. The process is not very difficult and it should be easy to follow, but it does take some time. Here is a preview of the final result of this [...]

A career in web design or development requires a constant effort to improve and to stay on top of new technologies and changes within the industry. No matter how much you improve or how many new things you learn there is always something else out there that can make you better at your work and [...]

I was recently working on the tour page for Vandelay Premier and doing some research on other tour pages to gather inspiration. I decided to put this post together because it is a topic that can have a great deal of impact on the success of a web app or web business. Looking at the [...]

CSS3 is opening up a lot of possibilities for designers and developers. Things that used to require images, JavaScript or Flash can now be done with the power of CSS. Unfortunately, in most cases these developments are more useful for experimentation and learning at this point since they are not supported by all of the [...]

A few weeks ago we launched Vandelay Premier, a membership-based site that provides premium-quality design and career resources. Today we’re releasing a free set of 4 plain brown paper textures as a sample of what is available for members. These textures can be downloaded and used by anyone, and the standard Vandelay Premier extended license [...]

One common trend that a number of web designers are using is to include skylines and cityscapes in their designs. In some cases it is a silhouette in the background, in other cases it may be a more significant part of the design. In this post we’ll showcase 25 examples, and at the end of [...]

Although HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery are able to accomplish a lot of exciting results and gaining popularity, Flash is still used by a number of impressive websites. In this post we’ll showcase 25 Flash portfolio sites. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next year or two with the future of Flash. [...]

Wix provides anyone with the opportunity to easily build a website. They offer a few different packages, including one for free websites. Wix has offered to provide two readers of the Vandelay Design Blog with unlimited accounts for one year (a $150 value)! The unlimited plan includes a number of upgrades: Use your own domain. [...]

The vintage style is very popular in web design right now and has been mastered by many designers. Vintage-style designs typically include textures, colors and some items that give it that vintage feel. In this post we’ll showcase some excellent examples for your inspiration, and we’ll also feature some resources, like textures and Photoshop brushes, [...]

Much loved the world over, Ed Emberley has been inspiring illustrators, young and old, since the 1970s. Either with crayon and a coloring book, or a more formal artistic approach, his incredible influence is clear.

The schematic for doodling Ed’s characters is so utterly basic you don’t even need to be able to read to understand how, yet the it produces a character with so much style and heart you can’t help but be captivated. As a kid, I remember sitting at the kitchen table with one of Emberly’s drawing books checked out from the library and I drew every single one of the illustrations in the book. Paper everywhere in disarray filled with marker doodles, I practiced and practiced.

Ed’s still quite active today, and if you’re lucky enough to be near Culver City, CA you can see an exhibition dedicated to his work at the Scion Installation until Aug 7th. The show features Ed’s original mock-ups as well as work from six artists who were influenced by his books as children too.

Here’s a few more of my illustrators whose work echos that of the great Mr. Ed (person, not horse, that is.)

The wooooonderful Christopher David Ryan.

The work of Japanese illustrator Toru Fukuda feels familiar too, even channeling the Mr. Men series.

And finally Jim Datz’simmense body of work definitely rocks this vibe with equal parts stunning color and typography.

Images sourced from Google, Contrarymary and Grickily’s photostreams, and My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses.

Traditional publishing methods might be going the way of the dodo (I really wish I could say junk mail or phone books by now) but since this gives way to a drastic increase in the number of creative projects finding there way into the screens, ears and hands of more and more people I wouldn’t say that this is a bad thing at all. Sure, we might have to sort through a few bad apples to get to the juicy materials we crave, but i’ll choose to sort through my own apples over a bunch of people who don’t necessarily share my tastes any day.

With that digested, here are 5 colorful indie magazines (mags) that, with long list of others, have chosen the creative publishing route with MagCloud, one of the many developing platforms for just that. And below that you will find a few sites to help you publish your next project whether it’s a magazine, photo book, craft, or music.

wlwl

We Like We Love is a magazine about sharing the things you like & love.

Longshot

Over a 48 hour period from noon August 27, 2010, through noon August 29, 2010, hundreds of writers, editors, artists, photographers, programmers, videographers, and other creatives from all around the world came together via the Internet, and in offices in Los Angeles, Portland, and San Francisco to make a magazine from start to finish.

RAW

An amateur photography and art magazine featuring contributors from flickr.com.

RAW Magazine is a photography magazine for those who love taking and looking at photographs. We feature one up-and-coming photographer in each issue, and one more prominent photographer. We hope to inspire people who are looking for something more and to help introduce people who aren’t familiar with photography to how rewarding it can be.

Rust + Moth

A Journal of Poetry and The Arts

Rust+Moth is a literary journal featuring poetry, photography, and the arts. Since our inception in 2008, we have been dedicated to showcasing exciting and fresh new artists and writers. Our goal is to bring innovative and meaningful work to the public’s eye.

While our regular quarterly issues primarily feature poetry accompanied by striking design, we also release a series of special issues which broaden our content to include photography, short fiction, and the visual arts. In addition, our Spotlight series presents individual artists and writers of special merit, each in his or her own special issue.

Edie

Edie is the love child of two very good friends who enjoy the same sorts of things you do: good music, pretty clothes, fantastic photographs, thought-provoking books, and other fantastically random odds and ends.

Creative Publishing & Distribution

Here are a few of those creative publishing outlets worth exploring for your next project. Do you currently publish through one of them and do you know of any others?

Etsy for Crafts

Our mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers.

Our vision is to build a new economy and present a better choice:

Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade.

Bandcamp for Music

Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. Rather, we power a site that’s yours. So instead of ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your URL. You retain all ownership rights, and we just hang out in the background handling the tech stuff.

Choice. We offer your tracks in mp3, AAC, FLAC, Ogg…all the formats your überfans demand. Choose between giving away your music, setting a price, letting folks name their price – it’s up to you.

Blurb for Photo Books

Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them… So we put our minds together, and developed a creative publishing service simple and smart enough to make anyone an author – every blogger, cook, photographer, parent, traveler, poet, pet owner, marketer, everyone. (This means you.)

MagCloud for Magazines

Magazine Publishing Reinvented

MagCloud, the revolutionary new self-publishing web service from HP, is changing the way ideas, stories, and images find their way into peoples’ hands in a printed magazine format. Whether you are a novice or experienced publisher, MagCloud offers you a way to create commercial quality magazines, printed on demand with no upfront costs or minimum print runs. MagCloud is creating new ways to bring consumers and publishers together in a web-based marketplace where choice, flexibility and print on demand are the cornerstones of the community.

Art

“Perfectly Flawed” New Work by Stina Persson

Exhibition @ Hanahou | Porfolio

September 9 – October 1, 2010
Opening reception September 9, 7-9 pm
RSVP info@galleryhanahou.com

In her new solo show “Perfectly Flawed,” Stockholm artist Stina Persson abandons her digital safety net to create unaltered works that are beautifully imperfect – or imperfectly beautiful – as a response to the increasingly flawless images with which we surround ourselves.

Over the course of 10+ years working as a commercial illustrator, Stina has found herself conforming to trends of narrowing hips and ever-smoother skin by digitally altering her original watercolors, often without prompting from a client: edges have gradually become cleaner, features more defined, and the painterly more photographic.

Fully conscious of going down this “slippery slope of adjusting, fixing, and retouching,”  Stina is ready to see the handmade, crooked, and flawed gain appeal, an aesthetic inspired by the 1970s, when social and environmental issues didn’t take a back seat to Botox in the public consciousness. For her newest work, the artist asked herself what would happen if she didn’t scan, didn’t retouch, and didn’t work digitally at all. The result of that question is a series of more than 30 new works on paper, watercolor pieces of women with running paint, unconventional color choices, and skewed perspective – imperfections that are natural, unsettling, and beautiful.

Hand Lettering by Daren Booth

Porfolio

Darren uses his collage pieces to determine the color palette for his work.

Video

True Colors

“Four month exhausting hard work in an abonded area, no sun just artificial light. The final result, a stop motion movie with no digital effects at all, everything is handmade. About 5000 pictures are processed with an average by 15 pictures per second. The music is by Pretty Lights from Denver, Colorado, thanks Derek!” – YouTube

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Collective funding, crowd funding, community funding,… whatever you want to call it it’s great, and these micro-financing sites are allowing people to find support for the smallest of projects related to their businesses and dreams.

The idea is simple: communicate your idea and set it free allowing it travel through the cloud collecting support along its way. Creative projects deserve creative funding, and what better way then to tap into the creative community at large for support. Not only do supporters get to see projects come alive they become a part of the project, without their support it would never happen. Supporting and seeing all these great projects takeoff can be just the bit of inspiration you might need to get your project off the ground too.

Having experienced working on a project (Designing Obama) from ‘KickStart‘ to finish I can say that while the ultimate goal of course is to raise the money you need, connecting with people who are as excited about something as you are, and seeing a community form around a single project is the ultimate aspect of the support that can be found on these sites. In my mind, raising one million dollars from one person is one thing but having one million different people give one dollar each is quite another.

Creative Funding Sites

KickStarter is a new way to fund creative ideas and ambitious endeavors.

We believe that…

A good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide.
A large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement.

Kickstarter is powered by a unique all-or-nothing funding method where projects must be fully-funded or no money changes hands.

Kiva‘s mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur across the globe. By combining microfinance with the internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people connected through lending.

Ulule helps you make good things happen by organizing online fundraising campaigns.

Flattr was founded to help people share money, not just content. Before Flattr, the only reasonable way to donate has been to use Paypal or other systems to send money to people. The threshold for this is quite high. People would just ignore the option to send donations if it wasn’t for a really important cause. Sending just a small sum has always been a pain in the ass. Who would ever even login to a payment system just to donate €0.01? And €10 was just too high for just one blog entry we liked…

Indie GoGo allows project or idea (creative, cause, or entrepreneurial) can raise money, offer perks, and keep 100% ownership.

These are only a few of the sites currently in operation, and certainly there will be more to come. Which collective funding sites do you know of? Share them with everyone in the comments or posts links to any colorful projects that you might be supporting or trying to fund yourself.

A Colorful Project on Kickstarter

50 Different Minds is made from hand woven fiber optics. There has never been anything like it. It fuses traditional arts, digital electronics, interactivity, and data scraping with contemporary art. It is a new media canvas, woven from information, using fiber optic thread to carry information and data from the internet in the form of light.

Watch the project video.

Pattern Challenge

There is probably already one at least, but does anyone want to make an inspired pattern of the Fiber Optic Tapestry? Post it in the comments if you do.

Here at COLOURlovers, it’s easy to be spoiled by the millions of colors we have available at our fingertips. We can create colors, palettes and patterns to fit our every mood, meet every whim–you know where I’m going with this.

A well-stocked closet can further that creativity in everyday life. When you have bold colors and prints at the ready you can layer them up, mixing patterns, piling hues or opting for a single bright piece against a monochromatic look. But the basics aren’t to be discounted in any scenario; a white shirt, black pants, a little black dress, a good brown belt, well-fitting denim and a pair of trim chinos are staples that form the foundation–and in some cases, the entirety–of any good wardrobe.

But members here probably already know that, which explains why COLOURlovers’ top colors are all strong, solid basics. Putting them into play here are members of Flickr’s wardrobe_remix street fashion community.

“Black“

ninjascience‘s classic black is CL’s most-loved and most-followed color. It’s a crisp essential the fashion world loves, too, and the reasons are many: It’s stark and striking at the same time, it creates a strong line, it’s a clean backdrop for accessories and detail, and, you know, it’s slimming.

[Jemibook; mssarabeth]

[supernab]

[mysolitaryconsignment; renr]

“camel spider“

CL’s most-viewed color, edesigned‘s “camel spider,” instantly reminds me of the traditional Burberry trench coat, a piece the house remakes year after year in both its classic and updated forms. The beauty of this color, as with the trench coat, is its mutability–it’s a neutral that pairs well with virtually any color and every other neutral, and it can be as straightforward or as modern as you’d like it to be.

[songsandfairytales; pineapplemint]

[thenewclotheshorse]

[fancytreehouse; DailyFashionBoost]

“Now or never”

Like camel spider, peony‘s “Now or never,” the CL color with the most comments , is a soft, warm neutral. Its dusty tone is a favorite in the fashion blogger world, I’d guess because it, too, bridges the gap between popular vintage florals and tough, edgy boots.

[verhext; LuluLetty]

[Clodo; eunicetsy]

[cantamus; What Would a Nerd Wear]

How do you wear COLOURlovers’ favorite colors? Are they also the basis of your wardrobe? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

This summer has been a rough one as far as heat and humidity go. Not something that is very pleasant, which is why I am so ready for fall, and the amazing colors associated with this time of year. Deep oranges are some of the fall colors that seem to always pop up in my head when I think of the season, and there are so many great decor choices this hue to help bring in that great crisp welcoming feeling into your home. What are your thoughts on deep orange?

light | wall hook | bowls | glass | pillow | vase set

room 1 & 2

For this week’s edition of What’s Crafty on Etsy, I thought it would be fun to explore further into the depths of fashion and see what people are creating that’s fun to wear. Whether for you, your husband, your mom or even your dog, there are tons of crafters that are focused on helping you to look snazzy. Maybe to start, you’d like to add some small details that will make people turn their heads?

You know a new pair of earrings can go a long way. For some women, they prefer large, dangly things, but some of you I’m sure prefer to accent with small details. For you, something like these burgandy pear studs might be just the thing. With a bit of a vintage look, you could easily pair these with a colorful dress, a tank top or even a t-shirt and jeans and still get people wondering where you got them. Seller Fiesty Kitty has tons more where this came from too, and all of it echoes of a time long gone — think teardrop earrings, cameos, and lots of color. Hey, we like color around here, you know.

But hey, what if you’re into the dangly look? After all, some ladies just aren’t the type to wear studs (I admit, I am one of them). These brilliant golden dahlia earrings could bring a touch of brilliance to almost anything you might want to wear (even a white tee and jeans would be kicked up a notch if you added these into the mix!) If you like the look but aren’t in the mood for a pair of earrings, seller Katheyl also has barrettes, necklaces, bracelets and more, created with all sorts of vivid blooms. So feminine!

Maybe your way of decorating your look is less about jewelry and more about hair. Can’t say I would blame you there, as a woman with long hair piled magnificently on top of her head is always a sight to see. Add in a touch like this Autumn Goddess harvest headband, and you may be able to turn heads simply by walking down the street. First Kiss Designs make just about every type of hair ornament you can think of, from hairpins with a single bloom to elaborate pieces such as this. Now all you need is an event to attend!

And what if accessories aren’t so much your thing? Some women prefer to make a statement with a bold piece of clothing, rather than a pair of earrings or a bracelet. Featured Etsy seller Minxshop has definitely got the hang of creating clothing that makes a memorable impression. This beautiful blouse with leaf applique is only one of many striking pieces from her shop, and if you like what you see, the designer has her own page on Facebook where you can keep up with her future creations.

Thought we forgot about your little ones, didn’t you? I would never! UK seller funkyshapes makes the cutest little booties for your baby’s feet you can possibly imagine, in all kinds of patterns and colors that look good enough to eat. Every pair of boots also has the matching ribbons, and the bottoms are even detailed with a contrasting fabric, such as polka dots. Now when your baby kicks, you’ll get a smile on your face at the sight of such happy feet!

Looking for colorful men’s accessories can be a challenge sometimes, since designers seem to favor colors like brown and tan for men. Sure, those are safe — but what if you want something that really pops? KitMit’s travel symbol wallets definitely have a voice of their own, mixing strong colors with bold prints for a kitschy look. Check out the shop for more colors.

That’s it for this week, but join us next week for another roundup of the best colorful finds on Etsy!

I love cool, creative outdoor spaces. Today I happened uppon an article at somewhatsimple.com on making a non-weighted, no-fly-away  tablecloth for an outdoor table. That’s not the only good point about it; it’s also plastic (but tasteful) so it’s weather wearable, will protect metal or wood and definitely washable for easy cleanup.

So here it is! The No-Fly-Away Shower Curtain Tablecloth from blogger, This Present Life.

I really enjoyed reading how this cute number was born – pure spontaneity. Initially, she bought the table at Target for $34, but you could use anything you have, yard sale or  craigslist, etc. Anything that will fit under a shower curtain! Yes, that’s what I said, this is made of a shower curtain!

“…I went in search of a cute tablecloth to add some fun color. I caught a glimpse of the shower curtain aisle and I thought to myself, “what if I used a plastic shower curtain instead? It’s plastic, it can handle being outside, and surely there will be more designs to choose from.”…

Now to spice up the rest of the patio.

Personally, I would add some patio-style throw pillows to make those chairs more welcoming using a lime green and/or hot pink or that bright yellow used in the tablecloth design.

(micah-williams.com)

Love the pink and lime green’s in “Sally’s House” by Micah (colourlover: micahrae224). You can sew a basic square or rectangle pillow at the beginner level of sewing. Here are some cute elements from Martha Stewart – Floral Pillows with Ultrasuede Petals. Ultimately, use whatever fabric you want. The suede won’t ravel and doesn’t require any edging. There are SO MANY books, websites, blogs etc for sewing pillows out there. I just bought a book for a general resource on sewing because I loved the layout, terminology and variety of things it covered. It has an EXCELLENT pillow section on different types of pleats, shapes, etc. You can do your own embellishments or applique if you wish too. The book is by Singer, The Complete Photo Guide to SEWING (on amazon).

(Somewhatsimple.com – Container Gardening Reinvented)

(plain and simple actually has a rad design)

Add embellishments like getting creative with your garden pots.

This is an extremely simple idea using black spray paint, white paint and a paint brush over an old clay pot. Add some hot pink flowers? PERFECT! Even doing black, hot pink or lime pots would be cool.

Other Painted Pot ideas:

Chalkboard Paint Pots from WeHeartThis.com – love this idea. (note: hardware stores and walmart carry chalkboard paint as a paint on. Usually by the quart (as well as a spray on). Buying it at the craft store probably cost just as much or more than a quart. I got some for $8.) If you need to paint a LOT of pots, here’s an interesting resource for that from dannylipford.com – Painting Clay Pots. Here’s one using a water sealant as well as paint by CasaCullen. A very classy, indoor version by MommyMovesAgain.blogspot.com. Lastly, this one is just perfect! Great Results! From LifeOnTheBalcony.com – Stylish DIY Container for the Balcony Gardener on a Budget.

Overall, a cute and very smart tablecloth with other useful decorative elements can make an adorable patio or back yard on a small budget to boot! If you’re bad with plants I suggest you get some succulents (hen and chicks are wonderful) and certain herbs like lavender, rosemary and sage are both beautiful and hardy.

Effective marketing these days is more about teaching than selling. Every seasoned teacher will tell you that people learn and consume

information in different ways. Even within a narrowly defined, ideal target market there exists many different personalities and just as many different learning styles.

The problem this presents to the marketing folks is that you can no longer strive to create the brochure or web page, with stunning images and evocative stories, and hope to appeal to someone who is a “just the facts ma’am” kind of person.

The web has raised the bar and when a prospect goes out there online they expect to find lots of information, in a variety of formats, packaged for the way they want to consume it. Your marketing materials must come in many different flavors and offer something for every buying style.

I’ve always promoted something I call a marketing kit approach. This can pertain to online of offline materials because it’s as much about what the information is as how it’s presented. The idea behind the kit approach is that you create various forms of content to appeal to different needs.

There are a number of personality profile tools that validate the learning style theory and if you could just have each of your prospects and customers complete one of those for you life would be great.

You may never have that luxury, but you can learn from what these personality instruments teach about how to interact with different learning styles.

One of the more popular tools is called the DISC profile. You may have seen or taken the DISC profile. DISC is the four quadrant behavioral model based on the work of William Moulton Marston Ph.D. to examine the behavior of individuals in their environment or within a specific situation. DISC looks at behavioral styles and behavioral preferences.

DISC is an acronym for:

• Dominance – relating to control, power and assertiveness
• Influence – relating to social situations and communication
• Steadiness (submission in Marston’s time)- relating to patience, persistence, and thoughtfulness
• Conscientiousness (or caution, compliance in Marston’s time) – relating to structure and organization

My take on this when it comes to marketing materials is that different behavioral styles need different marketing messages and forms of communication and content.

In our marketing kit example a

• D – needs the facts, the quick rationalization of benefit that a case statement might make, case studies too
• I – loves a good story, relates to more classic marketing messages of difference, loves images
• S – likes volume of content, frequency and consistency of content and message, full feature dumps, white papers
• C – responds to FAQs, testimonials, case studies – proof, checklists

Also consider that nobody is strictly a high D or high I, we’re all made up of mixtures.

Create lots of marketing content, package it in different formats (including audio and video) and offer it up for all to consume, knowing that how it’s consumed will differ from prospect to prospect.

Fun thing! Courtesy of our bff The Internet, where nothing is lost, I just discovered that there are entire blogs dedicated to archiving vintage album art. Project Thirty Three, Groove is in the Art, and Stereo Sack are three such sites run by Seattle used vinyl shop, Jive Time Records. Everything from jazz to classical to psychedelic abound with a rainbow of colors and cheeky typography, all of which I am filing away as design inspiration fodder.

It’s just amazing how well these have aged, design-wise.

And I’ve often wondered why so many 1960s jazz covers look similar though I’ve yet to see one that’s ugly.

Via AisleOne

Once upon a vintage time ago, everyone collected regular old albums. Remember those golden days? Now kids these days are obsessed with gig posters and vinyl collection is reserved for a dedicated few who’re more focused on the pristine quality of the sound over the art on the sleeve.

Help content gets no respect. For one thing, it is content, and our horse-before-cart industry is only now beginning to seriously tackle content strategy. For another, we assume that our site is so usable, nobody will ever need the help content anyway. Typically, no one is in charge of the help content and no strategy [...]

There’s an app for that, and you’re the folks who are creating it. But should you design a web-based application, or an iPhone app? Each approach has pluses and minuses—not to mention legions of religiously rabid supporters. Apple promotes both approaches (they even gave the web a year-long head start before beginning to sell apps [...]

Too many kickoff meetings squander the busiest, most expensive people’s time reiterating what everyone already knows. If every meeting is an opportunity, why waste your first one? By asking stakeholders tough questions before the kick-off, and using the meeting itself to explore ideas and build relationships, you can turn a room of mutually suspicious turf [...]

You can’t create what clients need when you’re too busy saying yes to everything they want. As a user experience designer, it’s your job to say no to bad ideas and pointless practices. But getting to no is never easy. Proven techniques that can turn vocal negatives into positive experiences for you, the client, and [...]

Want to make fancy, interactive, scalable vector graphics (SVGs) that look beautiful at any resolution and degrade with grace? Brian Suda urges you to consider Raphaël for your SVG heavy lifting.

Variable naming can be a source of coding angst for humans trying to understand code. Once you’re sure that a human doesn’t need to interpret your JavaScript code, variables simply become generic placeholders for values. Nicholas C. Zakas shows us how to further minify JavaScript by replacing local variable names with the YUI Compressor.

Background images that fill the screen thrill marketers but waste bandwidth in devices with small viewports, and suffer from cropping and alignment problems in high-res and widescreen monitors. Instead of using a single fixed background size, a better solution would be to scale the image to make it fit different window sizes. And with CSS3 [...]

Vendor prefixes: Threat or menace? As browser support (including in IE9) encourages more of us to dive into CSS3, vendor prefixes such as -moz-border-radius and -webkit-animation may challenge our consciences, along with our patience. But while nobody particularly enjoys writing the same thing four or five times in a row, prefixes may actually accelerate the [...]

You may remember when JavaScript was a dark art. It earned that reputation because, in order to do anything with even the teensiest bit of cross-browser consistency, you had to fork your code for various versions of Netscape and IE. Today, thanks to web standards advocacy and diligent JavaScript library authors, our code is relatively [...]

Years ago, CSS browser support was patchy and buggy, and only daring web designers used CSS for layouts. Today, CSS layouts are commonplace and every browser supports them. But the same can’t be said for CSS3 and HTML5. That’s where Faruk Ate?’s Modernizr comes in. This open-source JavaScript library makes it easy to support different [...]

I’m still not sure which is more difficult, moving house or moving blog? Both take up a lot of time. Both require a lot of patience. Moving the blog didn’t kill my back though so I guess moving house is still more difficult. In any case, I’ve moved the location of the Awakened Voice blog [...]

Squarespace released their iPhone App yesterday. The application allows site administrators to manage (post, edit, upload photos) their blogs and view statistics. Future versions of the app will have comment management features. © Robert J. Safuto – visit the Awakened Voice Blog for more great content.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been evaluating several different hosted web systems. These systems are “all in one” website solutions that are that are offered as a service. That means you don’t need to purchase separate hosting or download any files to make it work. You just need a browser, time to build your [...]

I spent about ten minutes walking through some of the features of the Squarespace service which I’m trying out. Squarespace allows users who are reasonably comfortable with the web, but aren’t programmers, to build unique and feature rich websites. Squarespace’s competitors are services like WordPress.com and Ning.com that let you get started building a site [...]

I’ve been sketching out some ideas lately aimed at redefining what it means to maintain your own presence on the World Wide Web. Until a few years ago a web presence for many consisted of a series of web pages that were built primarily offline and then uploaded to an empty space on a web [...]

I recently got an account with Google Voice and right off the bat I was stuck figuring out exactly how to use it properly since I really didn’t want to confuse my friends and family by giving them yet another number for me. Then I had the idea of easing into it by using my [...]

There was a time not so long ago when the conventional wisdom in the world of tech revolved around youth above all else. If you look back a decade to the dot-com bubble you’ll see many companies whose management philosophy revolved largely around the belief that youth and inexperience were a key ingredient required for [...]

I recently took the plunge and purchased a Dell Mini 10 “netbook” computer. I’ve been wanting something very portable that I could have around the house that gave me the ability to surf the internet at a moments notice. This role had previously been filled by my iPod Touch. The iPod works fine for monitoring [...]

I have been following JS-Kit since their early days when they simply offered a drop in comments and rating system for sites that didn’t already have those sorts of features. I haven’t used the service because all the platforms (WordPress, Drupal, Movable Type, Blogger) I work with to build communities offer good comments and ratings [...]

Google’s annoncement of a netbook operating system based on Chrome certainly made a lot of noise. Early reports focused on the negative effects the new OS would have on Microsoft. After pondering the news and reading different viewpoints I’m inclined to agree with those who think that this doesn’t hurt Microsoft. I just recently bought [...]

Ainsworth can be a very tight fit.(Photo: Peter Welte) This week’s question comes from reader Kinya Hanada. Kinya touches on a question I’ve wondered myself for several years now. She loves riding on NE Ainsworth because it’s a “nice, direct route,” but wonders if there are any plans to make it more pleasant to bike [...]

Super D! After several months of jam-packed event calenders this Weekend’s light schedule will give you a chance to go on that ride you’ve been thinking about, revisit your favorite regular events, and for those who have already given up on summer altogether, go shopping for rain gear. Friday, September 3rd 6:30pm: Vegan Dinner Bike [...]

Sounds reasonable to me. Streetfilms has a new video on 20′s Plenty for us, a campaign in the U.K. working to make 20 mph the standard speed limit in residential areas. The campaign is catching on quickly, with more and more U.K. cities adopting the policy all the time. Given that PBOT might be considering [...]

Wider, smoother shoulders would be nice.(Photo © J. Maus) On Monday, the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO) — an influential group of state DOT directors — announced a report calling on Congress to prioritize funding for expanded rural highway capacity in the forthcoming re-write of the transportation bill. Spending hundreds of billions [...]

Burley’s Travoy brings home the gold (and the groceries). Burley Design, a Eugene-based company known for its bicycle trailers, has won big at the Eurobike trade show that kicked off today in Friedrichshafen, Germany today. Eurobike announced today that Burley has won a 2010 Eurobike Gold Award for their new Travoy cargo trailer. The Travoy [...]

[Unofficial graphic, not created by TriMet.] Graphic showing location of vehicles just prior to collision.(Graphic: BikePortland) There has been a lot of speculation and confusion about the crash involving a TriMet bus and a bicycle on SW 6th and Morrison back on August 12th. The bus operator turned left prior to the collision and came [...]

Go carfree on the day that corresponds to your car color (mine would be Tuesday). Here’s a interesting new campaign that would feel right at home in Portland. This Saturday, the City of Boulder Colorado will launch Driven to Drive Less, a new program to get people to go one day a week without their [...]

So fresh and so smooth. A portion of the Springwater near SE Luther Street this morning.(Photos by reader Jonathan Ragsdale) Adding finishing touches. A $1.8 million, federally funded project to repave eight miles of the popular Springwater Corridor Trail is almost complete. The project was supposed to be done by now, but record rainfall in [...]

The “Clinton to the River” multi-use path is part of the $10 million request.- Larger version here – A month ago I shared details of the big project TriMet planned to apply for (in close collaboration with Metro and other partners) in hopes of garnering a piece of the $600 million available from the Obama [...]

Temporary bike parking at PGE Park was a hit during a Timbers game last weekend.(Photo: Jeff Castro/Bikeracker) As more people use bicycles to get around our city, more businesses are taking notice and bike parking continues to expand and improve. The PGE Park sports complex and the Whole Foods Market in Laurelhurst are the latest [...]