MAGAZINE PUBLISHER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
My recent ambition is the creation of a new type of magazine, one with an expanded purpose. Called Folks Press, I’ve dubbed the project a “community curation” magazine and promotions business. The concept has been described as “cutting edge urban planning.”
With a regional focus, Folks Press aims to profile Portlanders doing creative, unexpected, initiative-taking, alternative, or just plain gutsy things. Or even going about the everyday, in some un-everyday fashion. The profiles themselves are being created by local artists: photographers, illustrators, writers, and so on. In this way, and others, Folks Press will also promote local artists and other businesses.
The heart of the idea is to stimulate and show-off regional creativity, as well as to introduce locals to each other, and to the rest of the world, in activity and spirit.