Xavier Encinas is a french Art Director living and working in Vancouver, BC.

Beautiful photos of classic portable turntables at the Temporary Sound Museum.

This Thursday July 2nd  Flatcolor Gallery welcomes seven local and national artists to their first group exhibition. Northwest artists Timothy Karpinski, Sohaila Adela & CHIP7 are three of the artists displaying work at the show.

The party hat birds are ready for the Capital Hill Block Party in this poster by Trevor Basset. 

I saw this mural while biking in the busway near South Holgate street in the SODO. I’m not sure how long it’s been up in this location, but the raised “You Are Here” lettering looks real good!

Colourlovers and RYZ are doing a joint shoe design contest around the patterns on the Colourlovers site. Add your own unique pattern into the competition for the chance to win $1000 and have your design produced on a shoe.

Tyson Roberts did a a detailed series of pen drawings of Seattle’s downtown skyline on his site.

Nice poster typography and imagery for the band Addition’s album release by Seattle designer Cory Schmitz.

This year Artopia and the Georgetown Music Fest merged to become a one day huge music/art festival on June 27th. You’ll see lots of power tool racing, innovative art and bands galore.

Also the new all ages venue, The Slab, will be opening during Artopia with sets by The Lonely Forest and New Faces. The Slab grand opening poster I did can be seen here.

If you’re into bicycling like me go see the movie Veer, which follows 5 people who’s lives are tied to Portland’s bike culture over the course of a year. Next thursday is your chance to catch it at the Columbia City Cinema for one night only.