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Performing with NightShade again next month at the Portland Winter Light Festival! https://www.facebook.com/events/455669551300765/

#pdxwlf #pdxevents #pdxart #pdxnow #pdxwlf2016 #pdxlightfestival #portlandartist #shadowart shadowtheater nightshadepdx shadowpuppetry

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Design Week Portland is happening NOW!

Join us Wednesday night as we act as the hub of the N/NE Open House design crawl. We’ve got a keg of Widmer Brother’s IPA and over 40 posters made just for this year’s Design Week Portland that fill in the blank DESIGN _________.

The show is open from 7 - 9pm.

This poster is by Mel Larsen.

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Come on over to Land Gallery tomorrow!

#dwpdx #mel larsen #mlrsn #design #butter

Big thanks to Portland Monthly for making my hand lettering look so dang good! Their art directors & photographers are top notch and I'm honored to add this cover to my portfolio. <3

Be sure to pick up the magazine through September—it's filled with a bounty of cool stuff.

#portland #monthly #pdx #PDXdesign #designpdx #lettering #handdrawntype #typography #handlettering #oregon #magazine #cover #graphic design #mlrsn #mel larsen #fresh #farmersmarket #bounty #northwest #pomomagazine

Did another event chalkboard! Biggest one yet at 4x6, double sided.

#chalkboard #chalkart #lettering #typography #chalktypography #chalklettering #handdrawntype #handlettering #portland #chalkartist #wedding #carnival #chalk #type #mlrsn #mellarsen

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Design Clarifies by the brilliant and talented Mel Larsen.

Last year we asked 100 of Portland’s best and brightest a big, important question: "What is Design?" The responses were delightful—silly, insightful and honest—and made for fantastic portraits of the many practitioners of design here in our great city.

This year we want to know, "What does Design do?" Design alters. Design disrupts. Design informs. Design inspires. Design clarifies. We are eager to dive deeper this year, and to focus on Design as an agent of change—an active pursuit. A challenge.

Lucky for us, more of Portland’s movers and shakers are helping interpret these ideas visually. We’ll be sharing the results online and out in the world over the coming months, and we can’t wait.

As always, you can join the conversation on Twitter with our hashtag, #dwpdx.

More soon.

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Thanks for the feature, Design Week Portland! October can't come fast enough I tells ya.

#dwp14 #designweek #portlanddesign #designpdx #dwpdx

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Oof! Been keeping busy with lots of side projects to fill my nights and weekends. Here are two recent chalkboard commissions along with their rough pencil sketches. Tasty parties, no?

#processpost #process #chalk #chalk typography #chalkboard #chalklettering #handdrawntype #handlettering #lettering #portland #pdxdesign #mlrsn #mellarsen #Typography

Animated a time-lapse of Alain's latest flash painting. Check him out on instagram @woodensuit (or better yet, get some traditional flash on yer skin! He's currently working out of Graveyard Tattoos in Clackamas).

P.S. make sure your sound is on for the full effect.

#portlandtattoo #tattoo #pdxtattoo #traditionaltattoo #tattooflash #peacock #painting #watercolor #watercolour illustration #Illustration #illustrationpdx #stopmotion #animation #woodensuit #traditionalamerican

Every kitchen needs these three things:

Record Player, Chalkboard, and Avocado Walls (and food+cooking stuff as well, I guess).

#chalk #chalklettering #chalkboard #handlettering #lettering #handdrawntype #chalk typography #recordplayer #vintage #fischerprice #kitchen #home

Just added to my portfolio: recent ads for Arakawa Hanging Systems in Dwell and Museum magazines.

http://mlrsn.com/163915/1335319/work/arakawa-ads-20132014

#arakawa #hanging systems #art hanging #cables #display #interior design #advertising

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Did some fun hand lettering for this shirt project. I let my inner Tina Belcher shine when I drew that booty-swash. Up for pre-order now! stereotypestudio:

Butts, Am I Right? Shirt

Am I right or am I right? Show off your love for the finer assets in life.

Buy / $20.00

#butts #booty #tinabelcher #capitolhillbillies #webcomic #swag #swagswag #tshirt #tee design #gay #gaymen #buttman

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Dribbbbbble preview: what happens when flowers and cameras live together in gouachy harmony? This rough-cut of a repeating pattern!

Leggings maybe? who knows.

#gouache #gouachepainting #pattern #patterndesign #cameras #photography #flowers #flora #botanitcalpainting #colorful #gouachecollective

Curated Creative Commons is a collection of fascinating ephemera sifted from the vast internet glory...

FYI: tricked out my other tumblr and changed the URL again. Curated Creative Commons.

#curation #creative commons #weird #spooky #antique #ephemera #photography #free use #oddities

Early birthday present I painted for Alain. Inspired by traditional Japanese back tattoos and the art of Mimiyo Tomozawa (yes, specifically those Jim O'Rourke album covers I love so much)

#tattoo #traditionaltattoo #japanesetattoo #bushido #backpiece #sumo #squat #fatman #gouache #gouachepainting #illustrationpdx #Illustration #painting #mellarsen #mlrsn #mel larsen

Once a Mac user, always a Mac user. #MelClassic

#macclassic #mellarsen #mlrsn

Here is a closer look behind some of the repeating gouache patterns I've made recently (all of them can be seen on my portfolio). As you can see, there are a lot of changes that take place between what I scan in and the finished pattern.

#pattern #midcenturymodern #mcm #repeatingpattern #patternmaking #gouache #geometric #process #processpost #illustration #mellarsen #mlrsn

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Hope everyone in Portland had an amazing Snowpocolypse2014!! So much fun.

#snow #snowpocolypse2014 #snowportland #pdxsnowday

Can't stop making patterns! It is seriously addictive. Can't decide on a color combo for this one, which do you guys prefer?

#pattern #mod #mcm #patternmaking #textile #gouache #repeatingpattern #geometric #shapes #mellarsen #mlrsn

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