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Great take done by @tinasnowle and great job being DJ for the opening on Tuesday! Awesome job by the @psugdkemeny team! Cool to see a big showing for the talk, really inspiring to hear what Tina had to say. A great week for the @psugd community! 😁🎶

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The Fall 2026 series welcomes Tina Snow Le, a Vietnamese-American designer, creative director, and music selector whose practice moves between design, sound, culture, and community. Drawing from more than a decade shaping brands and experiences for Spotify and Nike, alongside an independent practice exploring vulnerability, spirituality, and self-evolution, Tina will share her multidisciplinary approach to building a creative life that is both personal and culturally resonant.

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Some snippets of the lecture by the one and only designer of Alphabettes Soup, Tereza Bettinardi (@terezabettinardi) last week at @volumes.designlibrary in Portland.

Talking about the process of designing this 400+ page book using 100+ typefaces, and publishing as a form of shared enthusiasm.

Thank you to all those who joined and took home a copy of the book!

Missed out? Grab your copy at bikini-books.com

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Ainda sobre a palestra que fiz esta semana em Portland 💖

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In a way, this trip to Portland began years ago — more precisely on March 7, 2019. That was the day I received a copy of Graphic Means in the mail. Never tired to say this documentary had the effect of a big bang in my head: finally, someone had managed to connect technology, design history, and feminism. It showed how layouts are not simply the result of our own will, it shows how technology itself has shaped those decisions. This became a turning point for me in understanding how I design. So many other things unfolded from that moment, eventually leading to the interview book with @briarlevit that we published through @clubedolivrodesign, as well as her visit to São Paulo for @diatiposp.

Last night was especially meaningful because it was the first presentation I did about a project to which I dedicated an enormous amount of energy: Alphabettes Soup, edited by @amypapaelias and published by @bikini.books. I could never have imagined that one day I would be working on a book with this kind of reach, this network of people, and this level of importance within the fields of design and typography.

I’m happy to share this story here in Portland. I truly have no words to thank everyone for all the warmth and care I’ve received here. It has been incredibly special. Thanks @psugd @psugdkemeny @volumes.designlibrary @builtbycivilization for the invitation 💜❤️‍🔥✨

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Portland! Alphabettes Soup has arrived and is ready to be unboxed. Get your copy TODAY at Volumes Design Library (@volumes.designlibrary) where designer Tereza Bettinardi (@terezabettinardi) will be giving a lecture about the madness of designing our 400-page baby using no less than 116 (!!!) font families.

Join her today, Tuesday, May 12th at 6PM and get this soup while it’s hot! 💚

Part of @psugdkemeny lecture series, RSVP at the link in their bio!

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Forest Young @emcray @psugdkemeny lecture in Portland on the eve of the nationwide strike.

Sending love to Minneapolis. Graphic by @erik_brandt

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Now that we’ve had a moment to breathe, we’d like to thank our amazing partners and sponsors that helped make Portland Design Month (@pdxdesignmonth) 2025 possible. They generously donated their time, funds, refreshments, expertise and spaces that made Portland Design Month (@pdxdesignmonth) spectacular and memorable. The Portland community is amazing! 🤩👏

🌟 Thank you to our Community Champion Sponsor, Adobe (@adobe), and our partners Kiln (@kiln.co), Kemeny(@psugdkemeny), Portland State School of Art & Design (@psu_artanddesign), Premier Press (@premierpress), Neenah Fine Paper & Packaging (@neenahpaper) and Level Beer (@levelbeer). 🌟

🎨 Post graphics by O’Neill (@one.illdesign)
🖼️ Illustrations by Chris Koelling (@chris_koelling)

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Join us THURSDAY for An Introduction to Moroccan Graphic Design Histories with Dina Benbarhim, graphic design professor from the University of Connecticut.

Thursday, October 30, 2025 at 6:30pm
Doors open at 6:00pm

Kiln
1120 SE Madison St
Portland OR 97214

Free - register via Eventbrite (link in bio)

Moroccan design narratives have been systematically undervalued, omitted, or exoticized. From the nineteenth century through Moroccan independence from the French Protectorate in 1956, the story of Moroccan art and design was largely written from a colonialist perspective. Through retelling design histories centered on Moroccan perspectives, Dina Benbrahim challenges dominant narratives that have traditionally positioned European aesthetics and methodologies as universal standards, while relegating non-Western design traditions to categories like vernacular or craft. Her approach to culturally decolonizing design addresses several interconnected layers of historical erasure in North Africa. You are invited to an introductory lecture on the topic and to engage in a more pluralistic understanding of global design histories.

This event is made possible by the generosity of the Mary Ausplund Tooze Endowed Visiting Professor of Islamic and Ancient Art fund ❤️with additional support from the PSU Middle East Studies Center

@mesc.pdx_edu @psu_arts @psugd @psu_arthistory

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Have you enjoyed Portland Design Month 2025 (@pdxdesignmonth)?!

We’ve had a smorgasbord of exciting events, made lots of great memories and friends and definitely learned a lot from all of our amazing hosts. 👑

🥳 But it’s not over yet...our closing party is 6-8:30pm tomorrow night (Friday, Oct. 24) at Thesis Agency (@thesis.agency) where we’ll celebrate the fun we’ve had and do some shopping at the on-site Maker’s Market! We hope you’ll come join AIGA Portland (@aigaportland) and cheers with us to another succesful Design Month. See you there! 🥂

🔗 Register with the link in bio!

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Last chance to snag comma 24-25 school year merch!!!

Meet us at Wieden Kennedy right before the Kemeny lecture, while supplies last. We're making room for the new schol year. Everything will be donation based, pay what you can.

Comma Bodega is a student-run pop-up shopping experience organized by the COMMA Club in Rodeo in fall 2025 under the direction of @djalways and @j_stephen_lee.

Bodegas are more than small corner stores. Bodegas are often immigrant ran and are an extention of their community, providing a home away from home for many. They're a place you visit when you are bored and need a friend, a good laugh, a pick-me-up, all while running errands!

Come support local BIPOC Design Students and pick up 2024-25 merch. Hope to see you there!

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