Two years ago I created my first post on Blogger. It was a short one, and it started as a challenge: what would I do differently? From August 7, 2006: “Let’s stop talking about ideas. Let’s start talking about change, in…
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31 July 2008
Found in Translation
This week, Stephen and I had the opportunity to present to a group of young Japanese design professionals at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The group was here in Portland as part of Teruo Kurosaki’s international desi…
10 July 2008
Life at the Summit - A Substance Summit Recap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rno59mxEp6E Wow. What a great start to this idea. Thank you to everyone who make it, and we hope the rest of you who couldn’t make it this time will be at the next. I know I rely upon the ad…
8 July 2008
The Substance Summit, July 9 (#ss)
Just a quick reminder that the Substance Summit is on Wednesday, July 9th. What is the Substance Summit? In it’s simplest terms, it’s a conversation between creative and technology. It’s discussing how creative a…
24 June 2008
Announcing The Substance Summit
“Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you.” - Paul Arden (thanks to @swestbrook for the quote) What? The first in a series of conversations with the Portland creative commu…
9 June 2008
Substance Rolling Coffee.
The first Substance Rolling Coffee took place on Friday, June 6th. It was kind of cold, kind of rainy, but many people braved the weather for some awesome eastside Voodoo Doughnut action. Well, four people actually biked (David, S…
5 June 2008
Substance Visual Search
Since May 2007 (when we launched this site), every story we publish in the Thinking section has an image or graphic that goes on our home page. We thought, “would it be interesting to navigate the Substance archives by these…
2 June 2008
Coffee, Voodoo and Bikes this Friday
Bikes, spring, coffee and doughnuts, what’s not to like? Inspired by Bikehugger’s mobile social at Webvisions last month, we’re doing our first ever Rolling Coffee. That’s right, this Friday, June 6th we…
29 April 2008
HB 1601 (the Oregon Beach Bill)
The Legislative Assembly hereby declares it is the public policy of the State of Oregon to forever preserve and maintain the sovereignty of the state heretofore existing over the seashore and ocean beaches of the state from the Co…
8 April 2008
Deed brands.
Continuing the idea of the future of communications and the talking less/listening more approach, here’s a great post on the Era of Deeds by Mark Barden, one of the partners of Eat Big Fish. The Spitzer Effect and the Era of…
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