STUDIO.NUMBER.NINE

the installation hoopla continues. on top of the site madness and the incredible job the NORTH crew has done on this year’s round of commercials (soon to be featured on downtownportland.org and in a limited way on YouTube) our little installation has been gathering some pretty good momentum. we’ve encountered more challenges than even i [...]

look it up. it will make sense. so here it is, at long last. the 897035th version of studionumbernine.com. hopefully only some minor tweaks to get this thing running like a fine oiled macheen and then i’ll be posting thoughts, ideas, pictures, videos and whateverthehellelse comes into my brain or across my desk(s). if you’re [...]

summary: Is now the time to pull the plug on arts in schools? That’s the question that The Right Brain Initiative is asking. On the 18th of September, in front of nearly 200 advocates, NORTH helped unveil the new identity and mission platform for the Portland-based arts collaboration formerly known as Arts Partners. Now branded [...]

summary: If you’ve been watching the Olympic broadcast on KGW here in the northwest, then maybe you’ve gotten to see NORTH’s latest release. Using some tongue-in-cheek humor and emulating some vintage chyron titling, we tried to bring a little levity (and a little notoriety) to P.G.E.’s salmon conservation efforts. The result seems to have been [...]

Latitude Beverage Company contacted me to help them out with a website and some print materials to help them launch they’re ready-to-drink mojito (this was pre-bacardi btw!).

working closely with the president of the company, a clean simple site that would convey the product clearly and simply to distributers, retail outlets and the general public was designed and constructed on a rapid time line.