The Turkish Delight in Woman-Designed Mosque
When a Turkish Saudi family approached Zeynep Fadillioğlu about constructing a mosque in memorial to their mother, she knew it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Turkey is a majority Muslim country...
View ArticleSm{art}: Keetra Dean Dixon
Keetra Dean Dixon's work never fails to put a smile on my face. In a world that is ripe with cynicism, it's nice to know that designers and artists like Dixon try to break those cynical patterns. The...
View ArticleAdventures in Feministory : Charlotte Perriand
Although she's often overlooked in favor of bigger names like Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand was one of France's most influential designers. Born in 1903, Perriand attended art school at the Ecole de...
View ArticleSm{art}: Does it matter if your vibrator is sexy?
How many times have I heard people describe a new new laptop computer or i-Whatever as sexy? So much so that apple has built a brand on technology that people want to touch, hold, explore. Sleek,...
View ArticleIt's Design Week, Portland!
Happening now is the first ever Design Week Portland, which celebrates design as one of our city’s most promising cultural and economic resources through a series of talks, exhibits, films, and open...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes: Sketches from Our New Micro/Macro Issue
We get hundreds of email messages, postcards, and weird/wonderfully crafted packages every month from illustrators clamoring to be a part of this magazine. If you saw the stack of them that piles up...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes: The Gray Issue's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcover
In the pages of our new fall issue, Gray, we celebrate the spectrum of thinking in the gray areas—where complex logic is key to understanding nuanced issues “from science to sports to smut,” as we...
View ArticleAbout the Cover: The Tough Issue
For the cover of the Tough issue, my love of eye candy met my hunger for a good metaphor. As we start every issue, I brainstorm ideas for the cover with the entire Bitch crew. When we talked about the...
View ArticleAbout the Cover: The Love/Lust Issue
The Love/Lust issue of Bitch debuts in early September. The cover is a direct play on the 1969 book cover for David Reubens' Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask).As...
View ArticleAbout the Cover of Our (Re)Vision Issue
For the cover of Bitch’s winter issue, (Re)Vision, we dissected a kaleidoscope. We could have gone a lot of different directions with just the idea of lenses and worldviews, but I liked the fact that...
View ArticleAbout the Cover: The Law & Order Issue
Fingerprints individualize us. While that thought is lovely from a scientific standpoint, it’s hard to forget that the state can use these unique marks against us.The Law & Order issue cover was a...
View ArticleAbout the Cover: The Blue Issue
Our current summer print magazine is the Blue issue. With any theme that has so many literal and immediate visual references, I try to dig a little bit deeper for inspiration to do justice to the...
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