Greg Esser Takes on the Desert Initiative at the ASU Art Museum

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…

Arnold Guerrero’s Camelback Mountain

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.”…

Doodled Consumption

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…

A Sneak Peek at the One-Night Exhibition to Save The Icehouse

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…

Windsor and Churn: A Design Tour

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…

Eduardo Rivera’s De Colores

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…

Talk Like a Texan Flash Cards

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…

Sunday Funday

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

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…

Irma Sanchez’s Phoenix Rising

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…

An Illustrated Obsession

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,…

World of Rynaga: An Explorer’s Map by Eric Torres

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…

Dayvid LeMmon’s Process / Gentrification

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…

The World of 100

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…

Chikara Kakizawa’s Ship Out of Water

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…

Beach Ball Pool Party: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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…

The Burning House Project

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…

Breakfast with Giraffes

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…