Thanks to all of you who attended our chair event at Design Within Reach. The turn-out was even better than we’d hoped. Thanks also to DWR, for all their hard work and for providing such an inspired space for the …more

Maybe Portfolio Center’s Team ‘We Are Chili’ didn’t win any awards at Grant Park on Saturday (not even Worst Monkey Chow!), but we believe if there’d been an award for having the most fun, we’d have taken it hands-down. It …more

Congratulations to Portfolio Center graduate Rose Gross for winning Best in Show for the Atlanta Botanical Garden Scarecrow competition. The exhibit, Scarecrows in the Garden, features about 100 scarecrows and runs through October 31, Tuesday-Sunday, from 9 a.m. until …more

Congratulations to our Department Head of Photography, Jerry Burns. His web site— Studioburns.com—is a featured Site of the Week right now on Livebooks.

For two days each September, Barkley agency in Kansas City locks its doors, rents a historical downtown theater, and kicks off a Creativity Symposium for its 350 employees – from the financial people to the highly creative folks.

They …more

An alum recently sent me the link to this post on ICSID about Design Education and the Corporate Partner. In it, Dr. Mark Brietenberg states:

Many international companies, such as General Electric, Nike, Hewlett Packard, Intel Corporation, and others, are …more

I am fifty-four years old. I am not an athlete. I have never been to a football game above the high school level. (And only then because my daughter was in the band.) I have, however, stood six feet in …more

After presenting a workshop in New York last month, I took a hike across the Brooklyn Bridge to view Olafur Eliasson’s New York City Waterfalls.

Stepping into Brooklyn also gave me the chance to catch up with Alissa …more

There are no coincidences. I’ve been a big fan of Steve McCurry’s for a long time. He’s the photographer who shot the famous image of the Afghani girl for the cover of National Geographic in 1983 that brought major attention …more