Object / Line is a small creative consulting studio specializing in multidisciplinary art and design projects. Our studio is based in Portland, Oregon, but, we try not to be limited by four walls.

Our recent focus has been collaborating with artists, cultural institutions, and nonprofit organizations on various design and publishing projects, as well as with larger clients on design and art-based retail + interior wall installations.

We bring to the table 25+ years of experience with branding, editorial, book publishing, pattern, poster, mural, product, packaging, retail and interior design as well as art and print making.

Object / Line is Topher Sinkinson (+ project-specific collaborators). Topher got his BFA in Printmaking at the New York State College of Ceramics School of Art + Design at Alfred University. His post-BFA hijinx began as a young working artist (read : Kinko’s swing shift) in Portland, Oregon collaborating with artist/curator (and fellow Alfred grad) Kristan Kennedy on a small press publishing and public art project titled Swallow Press (x2). In addition to self-publishing small run artist books, the duo created outdoor billboard and poster projects that appeared around Portland, and were featured in the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum, PICA and the Belleview Art Museum in Washington. They also produced limited edition books and events that promoted and documented each outdoor project. Topher went on to co-found makelike design in 2000, a graphic design firm with an initial focus on hand-drawn text and pattern design. Working with clients big and small (Nike, Umbro, UCLA, PICA) on various projects ranging from branding, to editorial, to publishing, to packaging design. The firm also created a line of high-end, hand illustrated screenprinted wallpaper. Topher left makelike in late 2022 to pursue more diverse, curated and art focussed design projects…and here we are!

Topher’s recent individual side projects have been centered around woodworking, carpentry, photography, screenprinting T-shirts and interior design consulting. He also founded and runs a small artist residency program based in a handbuilt driftwood fisherman’s cottage (and artist studio) on the South Jetty estuary, in Bandon, Oregon.