I was thumbing through the most recent copy of Oregon Business Magazine and found a good interview with our soon-to-be Mayor Sam Adams. Here is one Q & A that i thought you may find Interesting. Oh- Almost forgot to mention this great illustration done by Martin Gee.

Q:You’ve talked about families and working wages and other broad ideas. Get down to specifics. How will you prioritize some very specific things?

A: We have Adidas, Nike, Columbia Sportswear; we have [footwear maker] Keen. These are four or five of some of the biggest apparel firms and they’re importing their design talent. They can be partners with us to make sure we have a national-class design school. I’m interested in partnering up with the best European or Asian design schools to have an outpost here in Portland. The global economy plays a very big role in my mind because — whether I like it or not is not the question — my job is to make sure Portland and the Portland region and the state succeed in it. I intend to do whatever I can from the public side to provide leadership or to use this office as a bully pulpit and get the players to work together. If we’re building those partnerships then I think we can move quickly in terms of being best in our class in some areas. You know, if we’re not best in our class in the green and sustainable industries then shame on us — it was ours to lose. —Full Story Here.

Sheer genius: the Rubitone, a Rubik’s Cube coded with the Pantone Color Matching System. Man- I had a hard enough time with the original Rubik’s. Now this!

OK- As far as creative ideas this is a bit of a one trick pony but it’s still worth a look. I loved the part about the “Old creatives”. “We just leave them there as a reminder”. Ain’t that the truth! LINK.