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Quick question, friends: Do any of you have some secret doodling skills? Then we want to see. You might recall those big sticky notes we posted around the airport this summer — we think the roller-skating clouds and construction-cone crabs are pretty hard to forget. Well, now we’re looking for some new sticky notes to bring a few extra smiles to people’s faces this fall, as work on the main terminal picks up pace. So we’re on the search for the Pacific Northwest’s best napkin artists, crayon enthusiasts and scribblers of all ages. Yes, it’s a contest. We’re asking you to vote on your favorites. And you’ve only got a few days left.

You could call this Portland’s “Top Doodler” — like Portland’s “Top Chef” but with sticky notes instead of food and a PDX Next prize package instead of $125,000. OK, maybe that’s not the most compelling hook. (If you’re reading this, Bravo TV, we think “Top Doodler” would be a great show for Gregory Gourdet to host. Call us, maybe?) While we don’t yet have a TV series for the airport, what we’ve got is a pretty nifty digital doodle maker. Anyone can use it. No drawing skills required. But if you’ve got some skills, it might help.

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Make a doodle, vote for doodles, win doodle prizes

Scribbling on sticky notes for your local airport is probably not something you’re asked to do every day … or ever. That’s why we’re thrilled to have dozens of doodles with some absurd, weird and undeniably cute creative concepts already in submission. But we’d like to see yours, too.

You’ve only got a couple days left to submit — the contest ends on October 8. That means you need to head on over to the doodle-making and doodle-voting page straight away. You guessed the URL right: It’s PDXnext.com/doodle.

The doodles with the most votes will get featured throughout the airport on digital monitors, placed where the traveling public and our PDX family can admire. Plus, we’ll print some custom Ts and share the stickies across PDX’s social channels. The winners get that PDX Next swag and some gift cards.

Curious about the top contenders? Here are the current top five doodles. We tallied the votes before hitting send, and they’re all in stiff competition for first place. Who will win? Will it be the super chill Sasquatch by Vanessa? The PDX party whale by emc? Or maybe it’s Destiny’s big block of cheese? It’s your chance to decide destiny. Get out there and vote.

Sasquatch and Chill - By Vanessa Soberanis

The Big Cheese - By Destiny Tompkins-Thorpe

See all the doodles and vote for your favorites.

Check ’em out

Faces of PDX Next

You might be wondering who was the first artist behind the original airport sticky notes. That would be Portland-based illustrator Vee Chenting Qian, whose work is cracking smirks at this very moment in the main terminal. Their colorful, playful drawings are everywhere from detour signs to walkways. We called up Vee to hear a bit more about what inspires them — and get a sneak peek at a new batch of illustrations they’ve got in the works for PDX.

Meet the maker

You ask, we answer

Question: When does the new Concourse B open for Alaska Airlines?

Answer: After saying goodbye to Concourse A almost two years ago, we’ve been working hard to replace it with a bigger, more beautiful Concourse B filled with light, panoromic views and art (not to mention outposts of Screen Door and Good Coffee, which open in Spring 2022). You’ll finally get to see the results in December — just in time for the holiday travel season. And if you don’t want to wait until then, check out our preview on PDXnext.com.

Got something on your mind? Send us your questions (hello@pdxnext.com) and we’ll do our best to get you answers. We'll share the most-asked questions here.

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