Since 2001, Portland based advertising agency, Wieden and Kennedy has been producing television shows and films from their subsidiary division W+K Entertainment. Through the years it’s changed its focus to producing original shows on arts and culture, separating itself from client based work. This transition also brought them to the web, serving all its content online. Earlier this fall the division relaunched with guidance from Aaron Rose renaming itself to WKE, presenting audio and video content that will rival any cable art channel. First to appear is DIY America, from the producers of Beautiful Losers and Rose’s documentary on Portland’s thriving independent music scene, titled Don’t Move Here. Other shows will follow including Califunya, How To! and 12.

The immediacy of the web has compromised quality and many individuals recognize this – Luxirare is one of them. Ji Kim, the mind behind Luxirare, is an advocate for slowness, in food and in fashion. Her creations are painstakingly created and beautifully documented through a series of photographs. Encasing a potato in a plexiglass box, labeled with its nutritional contents, Kim takes us through the process of creating her version of flavored potato chips. How about a three course bento box that include a salad dumpling, turkey club roll, and rainbow colored jello shots? It reads like a disastrous experiment, but the results are extraordinary. Her parfait entry is a must read as well, reminiscent of Ferran Adria’s liquid olives. Kim bounces back and forth between clothing and cuisine giving equal weight to each of the projects. Trashy meets elegance and luxury meets rare, it’s time to slow down.

A new Chris Ware animation premiered during a live broadcast of This American Life last week. Quimby the Mouse was set to the song “Eugene” performed by Andrew Bird. The animation is now on online along with the recording of the show. Watch it here and listen to it here.

One of our favorite blogs, JJJJound is getting some media attention lately. After being asked to help with a post on T Magazine’s, The Moment, late last year, Justin Saunders is coming back for more. Saunders now has a “gig” with The Moment, reports PSFK. Dan Gould gives us a brief interview with Saunders and sheds some light on his blog.

When Obama was elected as president, the US also delivered a graphic design mandate. Effective noon yesterday, as the president took his oath, new websites rolled out, extending his campaign’s house-style and web savvy to whitehouse.gov and the all-new usaservice.org. Not only do these government sites actually look great, but they serve a renewed purpose. The new official site of The White House boasts a blog and comments area for legislation, becoming a platform for participation in a way only the web can facilitate. We can only hope this trend grows; irs.gov and ready.gov are in sore need of change.

For the past several days the NY Times has created some compelling multimedia features on its site covering the lead up to the inauguration. With audio slide shows interviewing citizens from a city block just steps away from the Capitol, to a collection of photos from people in D.C. and around the world, to a 3d map of the inauguration day schedule, the Times is adopting and embracing this medium very well.

Today is a historical day, Joe Biden is to be sworn in at 11:46 a.m. followed by Barack Obama ten minutes later.