I Put On For My Cities...

This season, The Professional has resigned to the fact that she's going to be late in delivering her holiday gifts. She's giving herself a bit of a break--she has been neurotically "on time" in Christmases past, and this year she has a lot on her plate--which means that she hasn't had one single moment to give thought (and isn't thought the point?) to gift-giving.

Also this year, The Professional is making an adjustment to how she approaches the tradition of gifting. You see, instead of having her friends and family in priority position, she's going to place herself in the #1 spot. That's right: She's gifting herself first. She deserves it! And just in time to benefit from this new prioritization, her dear old friend Andrea reached out to her with a fresh and fabulous suggestion: Ork Posters.

The Professional is in love-love-LOVE with Ork Posters...! Not only are they a fantastic way to represent for the city you love, they are beautiful, contemporary pieces of art.

Chicago-based artist Jenny Beorkrem is the founder and designer of Ork Posters, described as

"a line of modern, typographic neighborhood posters, including the areas of Chicago, Brooklyn, Manhattan, San Francisco and Boston. By ditching the 'vintage, illustrated' look of traditional maps, Ork designs its posters in a style characterized by originality, simplicity and modernity focused on form more than function."

Ork Posters also offers their designs for areas including Seattle, Toronto, Great Lakes, Washington D.C. and em-effing PORTLAND..!! Shut up!! Portland! The Professional's hometown!

The Professional plans on adding the Los Angeles print as artwork for her home--a type of homage to the nearly thirteen years she's been grinding in Hollywood. She will also purchase the screenprinted Portland design to hang in her office to remind herself from whence she came. Then she's going to have to control herself, because she also wants the Manhattan poster, solely because she's obsessed with NYC (she literally used to stare at maps of Manhattan, memorizing its neighborhoods and their locations on the island. Um, yeah. The Professional is clearly easily entertained...). It will be easy to get carried away, as Ork's pieces run reasonably priced at $22 and $27.

Whether a gift for self or for a loved one, these prints are great holiday gift ideas. Ork's website promises that orders placed by 11:30am CST today will be ensured delivery by Christmas.

Put on for your city:

Ork Posters
http://www.orkposters.com