Bright!!

Continuing on the theme of color, here are a few mountain shots showcasing the importance of brights, dare I say Neon colors.

Photos courtesy of SheJumps

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Get Inspired on flickr

Just in case you are tired of getting your color trends spoon fed to you from those expensive color trend services, or...maybe you don't want to fork over the dough for those services (we agree) take a look at flickr and I'll promise that with a little patience you'll get inspired. Just head to their site and start typing in random search words, my only warning is to keep track of time because before you know it, an hour or even more has gone by. But, there are some incredible FREE finds. Here are just a few to get you started:

Eyewash Design

The 10 Cent Designer

Walkabout Wolf

Happy Hunting!

Progress Progress!

We're at day 3 now on the new studio space and amazingly enough by the end of the day tomorrow it should be complete! At the end of day 1, the foundation was complete and ready for floor and walls to go up.



During Day 2 a lot of progress is made with all walls up by the end of the day.




On Day 3 more details on the roof are completed, all pre-wiring is done, and AC unit is installed.




Stay tuned for the final shots soon!

New digs for SY Design

Greetings from a sweltering hot PDX, with the temps pushing into the 90's today it looks like summer may be finally on it's way! Some of you visited our old office in the North Coast Seed Building...



It was great raw industrial space with 30 foot ceilings, but the time has come for a few changes at SY Design. First of all, in order to have more flexibility I'm working independently, and... SY Design is moving to a new studio space that is currently in the process of being built as of today!


Modern Shed is a local "left" coast company from Seattle who makes a wide range of modern pre-fab buildings.

"Modern Shed is simply about storage, fun, space, architecture and your back yard. It gives you the chance to have an office away from home, a small art studio, or free up room in the garage. Stop paying offsite storage and increase the value of your home. Available in 5 styles. All parts are pre-finished and panelized." They also utilize a lot of green building options including: Denim Insulation, FSC certified lumbar, cork flooring, and Trex decking to name a few. Stay tuned for photos showing the building process from start to finish. The new SY Design studio will be complete in as few as 5 days!

Box Doodle

Here in PDX we seem to be having a never ending winter, it's May and we're still wearing down coats! If you too are looking for something to chase away the grey, Box Doodle might be your answer, "the rules are quite simple: rearrange a box to make any kind of figure or object. make the most of least." Something fun to do on another one of those rainy days, and inspirational graphic art too!