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PORTLAND MONTHLY – Reimagining the 200-foot street grid
If Portland were a superhero, the city’s standard ultra-small blocks would be its radioactive spider bite or escape pod from Krypton: th..
QUARTZ – What if developers aren’t the enemy?
If you suggest there’s a housing crisis in the Bay Area or other major US cities, you’ll probably get a chorus of agreement. But suggest t..
QUARTZ – The Gish Gallop goes to Washington
We’re entering a new era of rhetoric. We hear daily that we’re living in a “post-fact” reality where politicians and press secretaries spo..
QUARTZ – Privacy lessons from an amateur porn festival
It’s early November in Portland, Oregon, and Dan Savage—probably America’s best-known sex-advice columnist—is standing on the stage of a f..
QUARTZ – Fake news and online harassment are design problems
The internet has gotten meaner and less trustworthy, but there is hope. It could just be a design problem.
Design is the best weapon we h..
DESIGN WEEK PORTLAND – Just Easy Enough
In our endless quest to make everything easier to use, what are we losing? Is our fetishism of high-touch, manual, artisanal experiences a..
RE:FORM – The Traffic Signal Knows You’re There
For 99+ percent of our history as a species, the only time a human ever exceeded running speed was while galloping on a horse or falling..
METROPOLIS – Inside the Portland Incubator Experiment
A profile of the Portland Incubator Experiment, a small but profoundly influential tech incubator run by advertising agency Wieden + Kenne..
MEDIUM – Repacking Portlandia
A ground level overview of how the coming rush of high-density development is going to change Portland’s urban environment, and an examina..
MEDIUM – Mozilla comes to Portland
With the arrival of global companies like Mozilla, IBM, eBay and Microsoft, Portland is establishing itself as a tech destination in its o..
GIZMODO – Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things
An NPR reporter’s fumbled tweet exposes a hole in the debate about urban cycling.
Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things – gizmodo.com
MEDIUM – It’s Time to Talk About Service Design
Service Design may turn out to be the crucial creative discipline of the next ten years, but only if the organizations already practicing ..