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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Portland Ork Posters Portland Edish

Posted by Logan Sachon on Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:53 PM

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Ork Posters, whose posters and prints feature graphically interesting neighborhood maps of America's fav cities, were all the rage with the design set last year. Now Portland has our own jam, and isn't it lovely - though I admit, I've never seen a map of Portland where the Willamette River and Burnside weren't big and bold, and it's a bit disorienting! Anyway, they are fab, and wouldn't you love to have one hanging next to that Bridges of Portland poster that you got at Powell's? Of course you would.

 

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Kinda neat, but I feel like only serious nerds like myself even know the names of the actual neighborhoods in Portland. (Am I wrong?) Plus, the official Portland neighborhoods don't much take into account the real divisions that actually make up the city. (Seriously, there are over 90 of them. Can you think of 90 distinct neighborhoods of Portland?) They clearly tried to cram on all the official neighborhoods (e.g. Richmond) instead of the ones everyone knows (e.g. Hawthorne... not an official neighborhood, so it's not on the map!)

The SF poster is way better because we don't have official neighborhood boundaries like Portland does, so they didn't try to cram every little made-up neighborhood on there. Instead they used the 40 or so major neighborhoods that everyone knows.
Posted by no one in particular on December 17, 2008 at 11:18 PM · Report
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noip, I'm guessing most renters don't pay attention to their neighborhood names, but home-owners do.
Posted by ROM on December 18, 2008 at 12:21 PM · Report
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Sweet! As an ex-Portlander who misses the city and is into typography, this is just what I need.
Posted by Hula on December 18, 2008 at 6:53 PM · Report

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