The Portland International Airport carpet cult following wasn't enough to save it. Courtesy of Julie Sabatier Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his ...

IT HAS its own Facebook and Twitter accounts and there are T-shirts, coffee mugs and socks featuring its pattern. But this airport carpet is being ripped up and its fans are in mourning. By day’s end, ...

Visitors and Oregon locals lined up inside Portland International Airport to have their photos taken with an odd celebrity - a piece of nearly 30-year-old carpet. Before the day was over, more than ...

Residents of and travelers to Portland! Fans of the Trailblazers basketball team! Design nerds! Your big day has finally arrived. The Portland Airport Carpet, generally known through the hashtag ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Molly Brown on Jan 26, 2015 at 10:01 am January 26, 2015 at 12:01 pm ...

Listen to this episode of Beat Check with The Oregonian podcast where reporter Lizzy Acker interviews Laura Hill who helped design the iconic PDX carpet. Listen below or wherever you listen to ...

To the airport in Portland, Ore., we say: How do we love thy carpet? Let us count the many, many ways. To all fliers hanging out at airports, we say “Quick, look down!” I must have missed the memo ...

That’s right. The people of Portland love the kitsch pattern that lines the flooring of their provincial airport so much that it has its own Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts. The carpet’s ...

Oregon locals and visitors lined up inside Portland International Airport last week to snap photos with a 30-year-old carpet that has reached celebrity status. More than 800 pictures were taken of ...