Downtown artist, gallery owner, and contemporary arts advocate Greg Esser is back with another project — this time, in Tempe. ASU Art Museum announced that Esser will be associate director of the Desert Initiative, which will support artistic and scientific research into desert cultures and environments. Esser’s a natural fit…
Artist: Arnold P. Guerrero (a Phoenix native) Medium: Vector Illustration “It was printed for a poster show during Phoenix Design Week. I wanted to give the feeling of movement and motion as the theme of this great local conference was Forward.”…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Kate Bingaman Burt, a Portland based designer, caught the daily drawing bug in 2006. She didn’t doodle her shoes, or a building in her…
Hugo Medina’s not afraid of climbing the rickety scaffold in downtown’s Icehouse to hang the lighting for tomorrow’s show; he’s done it before … and hopes he’ll have the chance to do it again. Medina’s on a mission to raise money for the historic-building-turned-arts-venue in hopes of “saving” it from…
Lauren Bailey and Craig DeMarco are serious about their over-sized sticks of chalk — they’re what marked the walkways, outlined the bar, and mapped out the tables on the empty, concrete floor where Windsor and Churn now stand in downtown Phoenix. The two are no strangers to restaurant concept and…
When restauranteurs Craig DeMarco and Lauren Bailey went for a walk through the Windsor neighborhood in uptown Phoenix, they found a home for their third restaurant endeavor (they also run the Postinos in Arcadia and on Central Avenue). The building was old, even for Phoenix standards, and in need of…
Artist: Eduardo L. Rivera Medium: Digital Image I made this image last summer during the large summer immigration rally on July 29, 2010. I believe that this photograph sums up the immigration struggle from the subject’s perspective which is important for it was a fight for equality and a fight…
Empty your trunk and toss your old accessories; the very fashionable creatives behind Frances will be celebrating their fifth anniversary and opening the doors of Frances Studio on June 3. The new shop in Medlock Plaza will be home to handbags, shoes, and accessories with the same Frances feel…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? A group of designers and photographers in Austin, Texas strongly believes that someday you will find yourself in a Texas Honky Tonk, and you…
Looks like Sundays in Phoenix are getting a little spicier. Local mixologists and favorite cocktail gurus Jason Asher and Casey Wallin are back behind the bar at Mabel’s on Main with a weekly event for all lovers of vintage drinks and funky vinyl records. Mabel’s kicks off its weekly Sunday…
Happy international Geek Pride Day. Live it up — you’ll have another 364 days to sew your Comicon costume, hack into your wannabe girlfriend’s Facebook account, code the latest forum on your video game blog, plot internet revenge, and pose counterpoints to all of the above arguments in a variety…
Artist: Irma SanchezMedium: Mixed media illustration on Pantone paperI created this because Phoenix is a lot about the bird: Growth, Rebirth, Growth. It takes a special type of individual to live in the desert, and Love has a lotto do with rebirth, so … this is my way to honor…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Ever since he can remember, Matt Stevens has been drawing his shoes. Stevens is a big-time sneakerhead and a big-time designer in North Carolina,…
Since we checked in with Phoenix designer Eric Torres in January, he’s been busy mapping Rynaga. Rynaga is Torres’s world — a narrated, illustrated environment he’s created for fantastic creatures with real life stories (think Tolkien, Homer, and Lewis Carol with a more comic feel). The World of Rynaga Explorer’s…
Civic Space Park, home to Janet Echelman’s “Her Secret is Patience” (aka, the giant glowing net) in the heart of downtown Phoenix, is the silver medal recipient of the 2011 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. The biennial prize was established in 1986 to honor exceptional urban places that transform…
We’re on the lookout for 100 creative representations of Phoenix to count down to our Best of Phoenix issue. No scope or requirement on medium or size — we’ll include photography, painting, sculpture, video, installation, literary, and more. What do you see when you Imagine PHX?Artist: Dayvid LemMon Medium: Archival…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours?What would the world look like as a village of 100 people? Toby Ng, a Korean designer applied boiled-down global statistics to 20 designs that…
Artist: Chikara KakizawaMedium: Photographic Print Phoenix is a ship out of water… both figuratively and literally. We are located amidst an arid desert where people could not otherwise dwell, and yet water is artificially diverted to keep us nourished. And, as supply is always finite, so is this water available…
Echo Magazine, SWAY, and 1N10 hosted a summertime beach ball bash over the weekend at the Wyndham’s rooftop pool. The annual event’s known for its beach ball and swimsuit competitions to the tune of a killer playlist. We checked out the scene and took a few fashionable notes. The Good’s…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? If Foster Huntington’s house was ever on fire, he knows exactly what he’d take — the New York-based blogger has made a list, photographed…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? After the world’s non-ending, turns out we have another year or so until another predicted apocalypse. This all, of course, means one thing: a…
