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 ...

They wanted to represent Oregon with the green. And Hill insists the main color of the carpet is green, not teal. “I kind of cringe when I hear it called teal because, to me, it’s not teal ...

Among the vast array of strange and surprising mascots for the city of Portland, perhaps the most unlikely is an old carpet. That carpet is the “iconic” Portland International Airport carpet ...