Hasta La Ideas

Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is pleased to present commercial Photographer Ray Gordon!

Tonight’s talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

Ray Gordon
“My Preposterous Career Doing the Imaginary Job of Commercial Photography”
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday, Oct. 1st, 6pm PST

Ray Gordon will discuss his failures and successes as a commercial photographer. Observations include how absurd he finds advertising and the business side of photography and how becoming a commercial photographer is as realistic as becoming Robert Plant circa 1975.

Ray Gordon has been a professional photographer for over one thousand years, working with all sorts of spoiled brats, goldbrickers and filthy rich desperadoes. He’s really fucking rad, if you’ve got an hour, just ask him. In spite of being a tireless blowhard, he’s got a lot of great friends and an incredible family. And he takes a pretty good picture. A noisy dragstrip is one of the few places he finds peace of mind.

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Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is honored to present Fashion Designer Adam Arnold!

Tonight’s talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

Adam Arnold
“Practical Expression through Cursive Handwriting or How to get an A in Penmanship”
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday, Sept. 17th, 6pm PST

In the first grade, I was caught practicing cursive handwriting in secret, while we were supposed to be learning how to print. As someone who values creative, personal expression on many levels, this event has always stuck with me. Cursive, and Handwriting, is becoming less and less common. As a clothing designer, I express myself creatively through color, texture, form, and line. As a person, I am able to express myself through my handwriting.

Doesn’t everyone have a signature? Isn’t this your mark, your tag, your imprint, your expression? The keyboard is quickly replacing our fundamental artistic expression, handwriting. Through an evening of writing exercises and discussion, I will share my love of penmanship, as well as inspire to take a closer look at how yours can be a tool of personal expression.

From his studio in Southeast Portland, Adam Arnold designs and creates a line of clothing for men and women. His garments are known for their clean lines, tailored silhouettes, timeless appeal, and exacting fit. Drawing inspiration from many different sources, he creates sophisticated clothing with an inventive spirit. He has worked in collaboration with companies such as Schoolhouse Electric, Oregon Ballet Theater and The Portland Art Museum

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Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is pleased to present David Butts of Mad Dog Garage!

Tonight’s talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

David Butts
Mad Dog Garage: “A Reverence For Gears – Making and Using Gears in Kinetic Sculpture”
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday, Sept. 3rd, 6pm PST

Dave’s sculptures start as an idea and proceed to hand sketches, notes and drawings. If the design looks like it will work, it’s rendered accurately in AutoCAD. If AutoCAD doesn’t expose a fatal flaw, a rough working prototype is built, and then final construction. David uses found and re-purposed objects, and builds from wood, plastic and various metals. He incorporates gears in his sculptures because they symbolize machines and industry, and they are shorthand for the workings of the universe. He loves gears: planning them, cutting them, and watching them work.

David Butts’ Mad Dog Garage exists in the iconic Allen’s Radiator Shop in the NW neighborhood of downtown Portland, OR. A bevy of fabrication implements: lathes, milling machines, an assortment of saws, drill presses and other tool miscellanea are used to create his work – interactive kinetic sculptures that can be experienced by passers by in his “sidewalk gallery.”

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Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is thrilled for tonight’s presentation from Andi Kovel of Esque Studio.

Tonight’s talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

Andi Kovel
Esque Studio: “The Art of Craft: Studio Glass from Design to Production”
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday, August 20th, 6pm PST

Experimenting with form and technique is paramount to Esque’s core ambition. This glass design and blowing studio, founded by Justin Parker and Andi Kovel, pays an extraordinary attention to detail and quality to achieve a coherent vision of functional accessories, lighting and architectural elements. Justin and Andi, driven by an interest in the inherent attributes of glass, infuse their knowledge into the design of each piece, so that it becomes both a fine piece of art and a sought-after collectible of the future. Adding to its value, each piece is unique and handmade to order.

The work also benefits from Esque’s state-of-the art eco mission. Their studio was built using cutting-edge technology to reduce waste and gas consumption. Two wind-powered furnaces run up to ten times more efficiently than traditional gas furnaces and produce zero CO2 emissions. Approximately 100 pounds of glass waste is recycled daily into the smaller of the two furnaces and then reused to produce eco-products, 100% recycled and chemical-free. Justin and Andi started as glass blowers for hire and found that time “linked us together as far as our passion for, and interest in, pushing the medium goes. We are each other’s perfect foil.”

The duo have risen to international acclaim over the past ten years (they were recently honored by Time Magazine as one of the ‘Design 100,’ oday’s one hundred most influential international designers) and now lead the American market for hand-blown, modern, functional glasswork. Justin, most famous for his skill in creating enormous pieces of glass, studied under Italian masters with a focus on handmade glass sculpture. He is an accomplished artist, exhibiting at venues including the Brooklyn Museum of Art,and he has also produced fine art pieces for artists including Jim Dine, Kiki Smith and Tony Oursler. Andi, meanwhile, is internationally celebrated as an influential accessory designer, glass blower and fine artist. She has exhibited with Claes Oldenburg, Damien Hirst and Kiki Smith, and has designed glass lines for Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan, but she is most recognized for her new forms and techniques in the field of glass. Such a combination of talent in such a specialty field could only produce a collection of gorgeous vessels and edgy decorative accessories, a feast for the eye and a prize for the home.

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Hand-Eye Supply has always had a comprehensive array of storage for tools and design utensils, but it is until now that we’ve released our own bag – The Hand-Eye Supply 16″ Canvas Tool Bag crafted in the U.S.A. Buyer’s choice of traditional natural canvas with a top grain natural moccasin leather bottom or black canvas with a matching leather bottom, both iterations being double stitched to their respective bottoms. The bags are adorned with sturdy sewn top grain saddle leather handles, and sturdy steel bottom pegs for the oft unkind environs of the shop floor.

Available in Natural Canvas and Black from Hand-Eye Supply.

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