Today in Design Week
Design Week Portland is picking up speed. Catch up with the programming in our guide to the festival, which runs through Saturday:
2 pm: The Spinanes' Rebecca Gates will explore the role of sound in design and of musicians in cities, through an experiment in "songs, in-the-round listening, and a cat's cradle of sound sense exploration." Okay... we're listening. HQ at Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW 6th & Morrison, 2-3:30 pm, $15
4 pm: Every day for eight years, Portland designer and illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt made a small drawing of something she bought. The resulting collection totals almost 3,000 and looks like a cross between an expenses ledger and a visual diary, moving comfortably from the aggressively mundane—"Cheese crackers (I would like to add BLAND), $2.69," "Gas station hair elastics, $2.99"—to the revealing—"SAD light therapy device, $68. Winter is coming."—to the eminently practical: design staples like washi tape and Sharpies appear repeatedly. Kate Bingaman-Burt's More, More, More, Liquid Agency, 910 NW Hoyt, open house Tues Oct 7, 4-7 pm, free, exhibit runs through Dec 31
6 pm: Metropolis magazine has approached architecture and design with a keen eye toward sustainability and ethics since its founding in 1981. Editor-in-Chief Susan Szenasy visits Portland for a panel discussion with questions submitted by audience members, as well as to promote the new book Szenasy, Design Advocate. MFA in Applied Craft Design Studio, 421 NE 10th, 6-8 pm, $10
7 pm: The folks behind Our Portland Story—which collects the art and remembrances of Portland citizens in a series of bound volumes—pays tribute to the city's latter-day design giants. The exhibit and Q&A panel Portland Designers in the Mad Men Era celebrates the work of Byron Ferris, Bennet Norrbo, and Charles Politz, whose worked helped shape classic brands like Jantzen, Pendleton, and Reed College. PNCA Commons, 1241 NW Johnson, 7-9:30 pm, $10
Today is also the NW quadrant's turn for open houses, with places of businesses like Atelier Ace Hotel, Citizen, Inc., Swift, and more hosting receptions, tours, and other treats. Check out the map and plan yourself a walking tour. The Museum of Contemporary Craft is acting as an anchor destination for the neighborhood, too, and they've currently got the first look at a collaborative clothing line from Liza Rietz and BOET, which is also a pre-sursor to a new shop, SIXSEVEN that the two open Nov 14 at 811 E Burnside (in the soon-to-be-former Stand Up Comedy).
