Lots of beautiful design work for Nike, Goods and Flying Coffin clothing coming out of Four Color Creative right now.

Here’s a taste of what’s new for 2009 in the bike industry. I’ll post more on Flickr later in the week. Iphoned…

I watched the Adobe presentation this morning on it’s new Creative Suite 4 software package. So far it looks like the amount of new features and increased connectivity is worth the upgrade. Here’s a few highlights:

1. Photoshop - streamlined 3D object editing and my favorite, content-aware scaling.
2. InDesign - add Flash type animation to your InDesign documents.
3. Illustrator - Looks like they’ve brought back Freehand’s multiple art boards in this AI version (Woot!).
4. Dreamweaver - I like the improved Code Navigator that highlights related files and CSS.

I am heading to Las Vegas to go to the Interbike Trade Show today. This event showcases all the new 2009 bicycle brands from around the world. I’ll post up a few photos of some of the bike hotness I see starting on Wednesday.

Is this blood veins or leafless trees? Either way I like how Portland’s Ryan Jacob Smith combines acrylics, silkscreen, spray paint, typography and graphite into his creative imagery. 

Upper Playground, the art and apparel store from SF, is opening a new storefront in Seattle’s University District. The grand opening is Sept 19th and 20th for the retail store and the new FIFTY24SEA gallery. Parskid and Angel179 will be showing work in the gallery on Friday and Munk One and Mears One will be doing a live art installation on Saturday from 2-6pm. One of my favorite local hip-hop artists, Portland’s Ohmega Watts, will be performing on Friday evening sometime inbetween 5-10pm. Woot woot!

Cornish College is featuring a group show this month titled, GIMME. The show explores how contemporary artists borrow objects, icons, images and sound from their surroundings, reflecting the culture in which they live, and reinterpreting it back into the works they produce.

I just downloaded the Wordpress blog app to my phone & this is my first attempt at posting with it. Here’s a photo from the Goldfrapp show last night at Showbox Sodo. Mobile blogging - word!

My friend Erica over at Steel Toe Studios is showing some hot off the anvil sculptural objects tonight at Urban Hardwoods. The show opening starts at 6pm and also features photographer Adrian Goodhand and glass artist Jeanne Brennan.