Oregon’s North Drinkware recently launched a Kickstarter campaign looking to crowd-fund the Portland production of these handmade craft beer glasses that use USGS data to replicate the 3D shape of Mt. Hood, the state’s most iconic mountain, at the bottom of the glass.

In making The Oregon Pint, we’ve combined modern technology with the old world craft of blowing glass to make a beautiful and relevant new product. With our design concept in place we took USGS topographical data of Mt. Hood and converted it to a digital 3D model. We then made 3D prints of our designs for design evaluation and prototyping. Once we were satisfied with our design, we created molds for our first blown glass prototypes. With our design finalized, we’ve ordered our first production mold and are almost ready to start production.

They were asking for $15,000 and have so far received $422,877 from 4,471 backers. Our question is this: could we please have one that featured Vancouver’s own iconic peaks, The Lions?

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