design kamp is moving

I'm pretty excited to announce that Design Kamp is moving to a new home! 

http://designkamp.wordpress.com/

I've moved it to continue exploring the boundaries of blogging and after SWISS MISS's talk on friday and her overwhelming complements towards the features and flexibility of wordpress I feel completely compelled to leave blogspot and give this new platform a good old college try!

See you at the new site, thank you for visiting!

follow up: visit to Weiden + Kennedy to see SWISS MISS

So, friday was amazing! Mike and I went down to W+K at 11:30 and picked out our spot among fellow designers, "Weidens" and over excited design students who were talking a little too loudly about their opinions on packaging design (hoping to be overheard and 'discovered' by the "Weidens" I mentioned).Here's a few photos from the show! To see all of SWISS MISS's photo set click here.

That's Mike and I about to sit down in the top right hand corner of the photo!  

Tina was really inspiring to listen to, here are a few stats:

* She started her blog in May of 2005, and today has an average of over 5 million visitors!

* Her first client was the MOMA - what a way to start out huh?!

* She doesn't like the word "blog" and hopes the term will be quickly antiquated...

Here's a shot looking up through the W+K "catwalks", note the "bird's nest" up top, it's pretty amazing!

Probably the most exciting part of it all was running into a favorite childhood friend who is now working at W+K! I'm so proud of you Carrie! (We're up on the rooftop deck - so fabulous!)

designed by nature

I have a surprise 4 day weekend coming up, maybe somewhere in that spread I'll have time to do my own little fall-found-object composition. This one makes me feel so cozy!

swiss miss coming to Portland!

One of my favorite design bloggers will be speaking at Weiden + Kennedy this friday at lunchtime! I think I'm totally going to go and be inspired! W+K Studio presents swissmissOctober 9th, 2009 11.30-1pm

Bring your lunch and listen to Tina talk about what brought her from the swiss alps to the big apple and how her blog turned her into a ‘networked designer’.

Wieden+Kennedy224 NW 13th AvenuePortland, OR 97209

Please R.S.V.P to jinnina.chiles@wk.com Subject: SWISSMISS.

say 'I do' to jcrew

I loved happening upon this gorgeous JCREW window display at the University Village shopping center in Seattle over the weekend! JCREW has always delivered and the ribbon/champagne glass hanging grouping behind the two models was so lovely!

a seattle shopping trip

Tomorrow we're headed up to Seattle for a fun day of Lattes, Fall weather, a lunch out somewhere new and a trip to H&M! I checked out their website, and it's chocked full of fashion goodness! I laughed out loud at this cave man male model, he's so Canadian Mountain Chic!

Matt is starting fall term at PSU, perhaps he'll pick out a fetching new jacket for his scholorly ambitions!

Hope your weekend is fabulous!!!

au revoir simone

Loving the typographic treatment of Au Revoir Simone's album cover, and the collage style of their website! It takes me back to the good old days of decoupaging everything in site with magazine clippings as a teenager!