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	<description>Designer/Creative entrpreneur</description>
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		<title>Twilight Rummage Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of my love for all things old, my Valentine and I ended our day of fun at the Twilight Rummage Sale (Jumble Sale if you are in the UK)  at Hawthorne&#8217;s Eagles Lodge. We stepped back in time to a place when toasters were treasures, comics were king, and flowers were power.
I discovered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meldel.com/2010/02/twilight-rummage-sale/</link>
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		<title>Extra! Extra!</title>
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Remarks, Art &#38; Graphics Hits the Street
I just started the distribution of Remarks, Art &#38; Graphics a small newsletter that I developed from a variety of my blog posts, photographs, and design work. The R.A.G. (as I call it) started as a promotional piece, but I see it possibly evolving into a different future of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009: the Best, and the Worst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally, every year I reflect back and report on the favorite things that made my year. This year, I am providing a more well-rounded view and including a worst list. Here it is, the Best and Worst of 2009.
The Best
1. TriMet
OK TriMet, you made the list this year mostly because I used you more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meldel.com/2010/01/2009-the-best-and-the-worst/</link>
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		<title>Snip! Snap! Dragon!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year, I tackle the personal challenge of designing a Christmas card to share with friends, family and clients. This year&#8217;s Christmas card is actually a postcard that highlights a long forgotten Winter Solstice traditional game called Snapdragon.
I read about this traditional game when researching the subject at the library (yes, the granite building with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meldel.com/2009/12/snip-snap-dragon/</link>
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		<title>Papergirl Portland</title>
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Papergirl Portland from abraham ingle on Vimeo.
My partner and I recently helped Abe Ingle and a small group of Portland art supporters, bike enthusiasts and pedicabbies to pass out hundreds of pieces of free art via bike all over the city. The project was called Papergirl, and it has its origins in Berlin. The art [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shine a Light</title>
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This September, Portland Art Museum hosted a unique event they called Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum, with the stated goal of blurring the boundary between art and life. A typical trip to any institution of art, PAM included, is typically a very structured experience. Visitors pay the admission cost, then quietly maneuver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meldel.com/2009/11/shine-a-light/</link>
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		<title>Faux Celebrities and the art of Nothingness</title>
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I encountered &#8220;Gambini&#8221; out on my normal First Thursday route. It was the last real art gallery extravaganza of summer, and we were busy hopping from gallery to gallery taking in this month&#8217;s offerings, casually sipping on our glass of 3-buck-chuck. Gambini was hard to miss with his coke bottle glasses, giant red feathered coat, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meldel.com/2009/09/social-media-and-the-concept-of-celebrity/</link>
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		<title>AIGA Leadership Retreat</title>
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As a newly appointed AIGA Portland Board Member, I had the privilege of attending the national AIGA Leadership Retreat which took place in none other than our very own Portland. It was like an AIGA boot camp. Three days full of focus groups, parties, breakout sessions, parties, presentations, parties, all culminating in the constitutional convention, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meldel.com/2009/06/aiga-portland-leadership-retreat-wrap-up/</link>
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		<title>Seattle/Vancouver BC Highlights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My partner and I recently went on a quick trip up to Seattle and Vancouver BC, below are the highlights.

On this Seattle trip, we avoided downtown altogether and instead explored the tucked away neighborhoods of Ballard and Fremont. Above is one of the many &#8220;Henry&#8221; murals I ran across in Fremont. Apparently this Seattle muralist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meldel.com/2009/06/seattlevancouver-bc-highlights/</link>
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		<title>Green Design is Good Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With this slide, Saul Griffith, inventor, MacArthur Fellow, Ph.D., launches into his presentation at San Francisco&#8217;s recent AIGA event, Compostmodern. I saw a re-broadcast of Saul&#8217;s speech at AIGA Portland&#8217;s event of the same name, that also featured Brian Dougherty from Celery Design. Shortly after showing this provoking slide, Saul is quick to report that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.meldel.com/2009/05/design-wont-save-the-world-go-volunteer-at-a-soup-kitchen-you-pretentious/</link>
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