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I was asked to create a piece for the “Portland Poster Series” through Society6.com. Each artist was asked to create a Portland-themed poster that displays a bit of trivia about Portland, or something that symbolizes what Portland is to them.

It’s for sale as a large, high-quality print through Society6.

You can see what prints have been uploaded so far right here: Portland Print Series, and if you happen to live in or near Portland, all prints will be hung in a show at 19Ten Gallery in North Portland, which opens on Saturday, March 6th. More on that in about a month.

For the entire time I have lived in Portland, this building in my neighborhood, once a convenience store, had been in great exterior disrepair; this included the ghost image of the sign for what was most likely the original tenant of the building, dated 1891. A few months ago, I noticed workers preparing to repaint the exterior of the building, and I was worried because it’s on a much-used bike route of mine and seeing even the remnants of old, hand-painted signs always warms my heart. Much to my surprise, when they repainted the rest of the building, they repainted the original signage as well!

I had never seen that done before, and certainly would not have assumed they would do it with such a basic sign like this one, but it made me happy and I thought it deserving to be part of Typo Friday this week. Has anyone else seen an old sign get repainted when the new tenants refurbish the space?

Man’s Face Stuff took part in our first official show on Sunday, Crafty Wonderland, at the Portland Convention Center. There were somewhere around like 300 vendors, all selling their homemade wares. 7,500+ attendees showed up during the eight hours of the show, and we, and our giant moustache, were situated only a few tables away from the entrance doors; prime real estate. We split a booth with Dane, a friend and chocolatier who happens to make chocolate moustaches on a stick, amongst other delectable delights, so our tables went quite well together. Dane’s website is www.pinkwhitebrown.com.

But BT, what’s that sign look like from the other side?

How about that friendly face? You’d be hard pressed NOT to buy wax from a fella like that!

We converted an old kid’s school desk I already had as our little wax stand and it worked perfectly. Fun, fun times at Crafty Wonderland. We’re hoping to take part in the next CW show in May, this one was a blast and a half.

This Friday, I’ll be showing two big-ass paintings and a bunch of prints that I’ve created over the last year at Skeleton Key Tattoo. Show starts at 7pm if you can make it. There’ll be drinks and snacks and even a free tattoo given away as a door prize. I showed at Skeleton Key almost a year and a half ago and they invited me back for another go! Pictures of the opening next week.

I’ve been getting a little press lately too. Baby Otto #1 just got a good review by Rob Clough over at High-Low.

And Man’s Face Stuff was featured in a “beard and moustache gift guide” over at Erin Dollar’s site, I Made You A Beard. For those of you who don’t know, Erin makes beards out of felt and yarn so everyone can share in the beardly goodness, and she’s super nice, so head on over to her site and get some awesome gift ideas for the beardo-lover in your life.

And speaking of awesome gift ideas, I’m still running my 15% off discount for any purchase over $20 (not including shipping) from the radrobot.org store or from radrobot.etsy.com.

Most of the letters I post on Typo Friday will be of the hand-drawn variety, but in the last week I’ve taken two letterpress classes at the IPRC, and I’m sort of in love with setting metal type, so I thought I’d show you what we came up with during the Intro to the Poster Press class last night. The teacher, Michael d’Alessandro set and printed the green, wooden type while showing us how to use the table top poster press. Then, each student got to set a small chunk of text and/or imagetype and that was locked into the press bed and everyone got a go inking up and rolling the paper over.

I did the eagle, ZAP, and stars, as if you couldn’t guess, so here’s a close-up.

Remember: 15% discount on orders of $20+ (before shipping) from the radrobot.org store or my Etsy shop.

After years and years of learning various forms of printmaking, I finally took a letterpress class at the Independent Publishing Resource Center on Thursday. I am, of course, completely enamored with the letterpress process already, and will be taking another IPRC class in letterpress poster printing later this week. There’s something about having a century-old hunk of cast iron under your control that just feels so much more heartwarming than say dragging a squeegee across a screen, not that I don’t still adore screenprinting. Anyways, everyone in class got to typeset and print a small saying and/or image, and here is mine. They are about the size of business cards in real life, printed in reflex blue on gold and recycled brown cardstock. Fun fun fun.

I’ve been working at a personal goal to fill my Etsy shop with 50 items before the end of November and promote it more to see if I can increase my views and sales, and it is paying off. I’m up to 48 items already and my Whoa Dang! t-shirt was featured on Alexander’s Designs blog this week. Go check it out and remember to support your local independent artists!

Also, check out this video. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a stop motion mural animation by Mike Nowland and Carson Ting, but what’s super rad is what happens right around 1:10. That dude totally looks familiar.

I’m adding a new feature for Typo Friday posts. When ever I see some lettering or signage that strikes my eye around Portland, I will try to snap a picture of it if I can and share it with you folks. For the first one, I thought it appropriate to start with one of my favorite signs in town, and a favorite store as well, the Portland Outdoor Store on SW 3rd. It’s a huge store, and you can still buy all manner of western and outdoor wear here, in fact I just bought a new belt and shirt when I stopped by to take these pictures. Enjoy!

The store has been around for a while and the original painted signage on the building is starting to fade a lot.

Close up.

I like to affectionately call this print “SharkBike.” I showed a preview of this during my screenprinting process post last week, so now that I am finished with the actual printing, here it is! Each one is 9″ by 18″ and is a three color screenprint. It will be exhibited in the Artcrank Portland Poster Show, which is being held this First Thursday at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon. There are 30 other artists in the show, and each one has created a bike-themed poster using some method of traditional printmaking.

Each poster in the show will be for sale for $30, with $5 from each sale going to Bikes To Rwanda. If you’re in the Portland area, this will be a very good show to get to on First Thursday tomorrow. If you don’t know, the Ace Hotel is located at 1022 SW Stark St. See you there!

I will also have some of the edition to sell here shortly, hopefully by Friday, if anyone is interested in one.

An illustration for the Portland Mercury, which will probably be completely meaningless to anyone outside of Portland. That’s Portland mayor, Sam Adams, and city commissioner, Nick Fish. Two years ago, Portland enacted the “Sit/Lie Ordinance,” basically to target the homeless population. The law said that it was illegal to sit or lie on the sidewalk or street, maybe just in the downtown area, I can’t remember. Anyways, they are finally repealing the ordinance, so why not have a picnic?

Four years ago today, I arrived in Portland, and I have not wanted to live anywhere else since. Thanks, Portland, you’re pretty rad! I know the concept of writing “Stumptown” as wood has been done to death, but I’ve never done it, so there you go. For those of you who don’t know, when Portland was an emerging boomtown, they were chopping down trees so fast for lumber that they didn’t bother to take the stumps out of the middle of the streets, hence the nickname.

Also, here’s a tarted-up quick drawing of Ben Franklin as a test for a project that’s in the works.