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Vitamin D is for Designers

Looks relaxing, doesn’t it?

If these Sockeye designers learn one thing about being part of the crew, it’s that 10 minutes of sunshine gives them a whole weeks’ worth of Vitamin D. Mette and Fish scramble out into the long hallway for a quick sunburst.

National Handwriting Day Is Fun

Ah yes, the seventies. A time of Smithson’s Spiral Jetty installation, Intel’s first microprocessor, and sea monkeys. Not to be outdone is National Handwriting Day, created in 1977 by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association. “Though computers and email play an important role in our lives, nothing will ever replace the sincerity and individualism expressed through the handwritten word,” says David H. Baker, Executive Director. Very true. Mr. Baker says the event was created to encourage creativity by writing out a note, poem or letter. Let’s not hold out on sincerity or individualism now!

Using an excerpt from Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie’s beloved “Peter Pan,” we had everyone at Sockeye provide a writing sample, which we then analyzed using Handwriting Web Analysis, the “Original Web Handwriting Site.”

The results were interesting.

Analysis:
Your handwriting seems comfortable and pretty well worn in with your personality, doesn’t it? Quick minds often invent their own form as they go, and that’s a sign of adaptability. Good trait. You may sometimes have a tendency to get caught up in intense discussions a bit too often, and you can do some serious leaning into people’s faces with your intensities.
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Sockeye Creative + Chelsea Cain

EQUALS FUN.

For our latest video series here at Sockeye, we joined so many forces it would make Luke Skywalker jealous. Novelists, musicians, performers and actors all came together in the name of supporting Portland. First up, New York Times Bestselling author Chelsea Cain. She recently completed “Evil At Heart”, the third book in her Heart series of thriller novels (available at Powells Books and on Kindle). Chelsea can now add Screen Actor to her resume.

Photography by Cory Tepper. More imagery can be blinked at here.