Cappuccino at Old Friends Coffee on SE Belmont Street in Portland with my old friend @jamesowendesign.bsky.social Got a parking spot right out front with the Polestar. My partner calls it parking karma 😌 #ev #coffee #pdx #pdxcoffee

While right wing politicians in the US are trying to fight solar power Australia has so much that they are giving people 3 hours of free electricity a day! America, we really need to collectively wake up and ask who these politicians are working for, because it’s not for the people. #solarpower

So happy we got to see @kamalaharris.com tonight in Portland. Thank you for your warmth, intelligence, sincerity and wit. You lit the place up. Thank you to @literary-arts.org for hosting!

I had been wanting to make this video about the loss of coupe style cars from US the market. It's a bit of a walk down memory lane of the coupes I grew up with in the 80s and 90s and a design study turning my Polestar 2 into a 2 door: www.youtube.com/watch?v=te5H... #ev #cardesign #cars

“the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” Said by another progressive New Yorker: Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States 44th governor of New York

It really feels like last night America finally said “enough”

Tonight, we are all New Yorkers. Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social “Hear me President Trump when I say this, to get to any of us you will have to get through all of us” @democrats.org this is the way. #mamdani

Yes! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

2015, loose ideation sketches for TV soundbars... you can get a lot of work done with a sharpie and a few pieces of paper. #industrialdesign #handdrawn #productdesign

How do professionals in 2025 not realize that the use of generative AI leads to some pretty dire consequences if not checked thoroughly… at which point you might as well do the work yourself? The irony of the @oregonian.com using a Canva generated image 🤦‍♂️… www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Smart boi mode ☺️ … putting your glasses on your dog. Never gets old.

Always fun when I see something o worked on out of context. This speaker I worked on for Polk was in the last episode of the Apple TV show “Loot” with Maya Rudolf. In the show it’s a smart speaker that Adam Scott talks through. In reality it’s a home theater center channel. #industrialdesign

When you get that parking spot right out front! Last night at Adelleda in the central east side of Portland with @zamafir.bsky.social www.adelledapdx.com

Mess with the algorithm, buy physical books in person 😊📚 at Powell’s Books this afternoon.

The bread lines in Portland! It took 20 minutes but the line at Tabor Bread is always worth it. Is it a $12 loaf of bread, yes. Is it worth it, also yes. You can only get the Sunflower Flax loaf on Sunday and I got the last loaf!!! Enzo and Kristina waited patiently outside. #pdx #portland

Dinner from one of our favorite all vegan restaurants in Portland tonight, Feral on NE Killingsworth. I had a chanterelle mushroom pot pie with a biscuit top served in cast iron… and a Negroni. 🥧🥃😋 #veganfood #plantbased #vegan #pdx

A little sneak peek. For the past year I’ve been consulting with a footwear startup called Pines. They released this little behind the scenes reel on the logo design process. More to come soon but it was fun even seeing the logo go public. #designprocess #startup

I love Portland. Where else am I going to get Halal Pakistani Mexican vegan aloo tacos? These were from a food truck named Mexi Khana in the Brooklyn Carreta cart pod. brooklyncarreta.com

Coffee shop sketching at Keeper Coffee. A sketch of a Nike Air Max sneaker boot I’ve had on the back burner. November is almost here. Time for waterproof sneaker boots! #footweardesign #sneakers #cappuccino #industrialdesign

Tonight at @reed.edu, lecture on the economics of climate change by @ckousky.bsky.social events.reed.edu/event/the-ec...

Last night we popped into downtown Portland to see the one and only @timothysnyder.bsky.social speak. As he pointed out, Portland is not a “war zone”, look at this beautiful city. @pdxforall.bsky.social @literary-arts.org @mayorkwilson.bsky.social #pdx #portland #downtownpdx

So proud of one of our neighborhood coffee shops, Heretic Coffee, offering free breakfast for folks whose SNAP benefits are lapsing due to republicans shutting the US government down. Read more about it on @goodgoodgoodco.bsky.social www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/sna... #pdx #portland

My favorite photo from the weekend away up in the woods in Oregon. It was so nice to get out there for a bit even though there was an atmospheric river for 3 days. This was a from a brief pause in the rain. #pnw

We got away for the weekend and rented a mid century modern house up in the woods at the base of Mt Hood in Oregon. It was great to unplug from social media & hike in the wet PNW weather ☺️. Side note, traveling in an #ev is so nice. We just plugged into the house we rented and bingo, charged up.

Anyone who is car shopping and currently thinking about getting a #plugin #hybrid over an #ev, give this great article by @bobbyllew.bsky.social a read first: llewellyn.substack.com/p/hybrid-sch... #phev #electriccar

Steppe, another fun variation I designed of the recently launched Kirei Echo Sky Neu. This fin profile creates an almost pixelated look when installed. I creates a really interesting look that also minimizes ambient noise in architecture. #recycledmaterials #interiordesign #industrialdesign

Fall colors in full effect in the neighborhood #pdx #portland

“The “Esmeralda 7” would have been by far the nation’s biggest solar project, producing a bonkers 6.2 gigawatts of power (with 5.2 gigawatts of battery storage). California’s Diablo Canyon nuclear plant generates 2.2 gigawatts.” @sammyroth.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

Vegan eats today in Portland. Grain bowl from SoHo House for lunch (so good) and a vegan pizza from Pizzeria Stellina in The Heist. The crust here is fantastic! #veganfood #plantbased

A friend spotted an Aptera on the road today near Carlsbad California… missing a rear panel. Crazy that this thing originally debuted in like 2008 and they are still working on it…. Think it will ever go into production? #ev The saga is an interesting read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera_...

A sketch for my nephew’s 10th birthday. He’s at the Bugatti stage of being a little kid 🤣 #cardesign #supercar #industrialdesign

Cappuccino this morning with my friend @stephan.wtf at Keeper Coffee in Portland.

One from the archives, the Converse o101 from 2009. The o101 was designed for the 101st anniversary of Converse. My concept was to imagine that Converse never stopped making the Chuck Taylor All Star as a performance basketball shoe, what if the design kept evolving the way the Porsche 911 did?

Just living life in the “EV bubble” 🤣 Morning coffee today in the Polestar 2 at Simple Local Coffee with @jamesowendesign.bsky.social A great little coffee shop in downtown Portland. This place really surprised me. It’s got a really cool interior and the cappuccino was great. #ev #pdxcoffeescene

From historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social, this quote from Thomas Paine has been on my mind. “In America the law is king” Read the rest of the article here: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... #nokings

Stenciled on the sidewalk… “everything will be ok” I think everything will be ok, eventually. The question is how bad will it have to get, for how long and for how many before we get back on track?

Ready to go. Polestar 2 in the parking garage at Nike HQ just outside of Portland. #ev

Portland went full Portland today. Can’t stop won’t stop!

I’ll put some thoughts together when I’m not so tired. We just did a 7 mile march around Portland for #nokings. I’m overwhelmed with emotion seeing 50,000 of my neighbors out on the streets together! @indivisible.org @coin-indivisible.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social

Beastie Boys: Stand Together. 1992. These lyrics still hit. youtu.be/5cAWl_oQgjc?...

Interviews Portland inflatables. Operation Inflations. From @motherjones.com #nokings

Neighborhood kitty spotted on my walk. This little fluffer is always setting off our house cameras early in the morning 🤣

Wow! The inflatable frogs have spread from Portland all the way to Switzerland!

Let’s dance!

Portland bars and restaurants are offering discounts to No Kings participants tomorrow! #nokings www.oregonlive.com/beer/2025/10...

Late in the day coffee at Keeper Coffee in Portland with a friend who is a footwear designer at Nike. He asked me to draw a sneaker in his sketchbook ☺️☕️👟✍️

What’s your plan for tomorrow? I love this video from Optimistic Soap (Molly Lee) from right here in Portland about why No Kings is so important. #nokings @indivisible.org @coin-indivisible.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social

I urge every American to read @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s latest news letter. This one recalls some basic history lessons: “no taxation without equal representation” … the president isn’t a king. He can’t just spend money the way he wants. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-16...

New product launch. Echo Sky Neu Tide for Kirei. It’s rewarding to work on something from initial brainstorm sketches all the way to launch graphics and photo shoots. To collaborate with all the different team members to bring an idea to life is the real joy of it. #industrialdesign #interiordesign

On the @indivisible.org weekly zoom call with @ezralevin.bsky.social and @leahgreenberg.bsky.social … these #nokings promo videos are looking great!