December 07, 2006
The Power of Sex in Germany, France, and Rural Oregon
XXX: The Power of Sex in Contemporary Design is now appearing in three languages.
A German edition is published by Stiebner and a French edition has
been published by Pyramid. Both have a silkscreened rubber cover matching
the US edition.
Also, look for an installation of the Museum of
Sex exhibit curated by Joshua Berger and Sarah Dougher to be installed at
the Campbell Gallery at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon.
Includes an introduction by Steven Heller.
Opening reception
2/14/07 6 - 8 pm
Show runs 2/14/07 - 3/13/07
Campbell
Gallery
Western Oregon University
345 N. Monmouth Ave.
Monmouth, Oregon 97361
Limited edition posters will be
available, silkscreen with Vaseline. Join our email list to be informed
when these go on sale.
November 28, 2006
Plazm knows its ABC's—or at least its X's
Plazm's Joshua Berger was invited to participate in the show "Now I know my ABC's" curated by Wurst Gallery. The show features 26 artists representing a randomly assigned letter from the alphabet.
Berger received the "X." Berger's piece was inpired by a report
in the
New
York Times (October 10, 2006) that a team of American and Iraqi
researchers had estimated over 600,000 civilians have died in violence
across Iraq since the 2003 American invasion. Berger decided that he would
mark and “X” for each civilian life lost. The first piece in
this ongoing series is on display at the ABC show; it represents 7,193
lives. Based on this first page, Berger anticipates that it will take
about one hundred hours of continuous drawing and at least eighty sheets
of paper to complete this project.
Opening 11/30 at 7pm, runs
one month
at
Office 2204 NE Alberta
Works
by Brad Simon, Martin Ontiveros, Driscoll Reid, Chris Hutchinson, Bwana
Spoons, Sarah Hollowood, the Sturgills, Wesley Younie, Jessica Lynch,
Trish Grantham, Damion Triplett, Geoffrey Lorenzen, Adam Bayer, Matt
Cassity, Eric Lovejoy, Scott Barry, Guy Burwell, Evan Harris, Le Merde,
Ray Fenwick, Apak, Jason Vivona, Ademar Matinian, Ian Lynam and Tony
Secolo.
August 18, 2006
Plazm takes part in the Urban Forest
Plazm’s Joshua Berger was asked to contribute a piece to the Urban Forest Project.
This project displays 200 banners by designers, artists, photographers,
and illustrators from around the world, (such as Ed Fella, Paula Scher,
Massimo Vignelli, David Carson, Vaughn Oliver and many others) in New
York’s Time Square. The banners will then be recycled into tote
bags and auctioned off, with proceeds going to scholarship and mentoring
programs to benefit visual art students. The Urban Forest starts on
August 17 and will be on display thru October 31, 2006. The website for
the project will also launch today at:
www.urbanforestproject.org
June 24, 2006
Plazm Celebrates our 15 Year Anniversary with Issue #28 and a Blow-out Bash
Join us as Plazm celebrates 15 years of documenting creative culture in Portland and beyond.
June 08, 2006
OSU Students Surprise Plazm with Typographic Birthday Cupcakes
Yes, it is true. Eighteen students of design in John Bowers' Oregon State University typography class have went hog-wild and made a bunch of cupcakes for our 15th birthday.
The students frosted the alphabet with Todd Munn's font,
Spacecadet. Not to be outdone,
Saint Cupcake
plans to make approximately 500 cupcakes for the official Plazm birthday
bash on June 24th at the Disjecta building.
June 06, 2006
Plazm and ConcreteCMS Collaborate to Preserve Natural Spaces
Plazm and Concrete have teamed up to create a web site for the Campaign for Natural Areas, Parks & Streams. The bond measure will be on the November 7th, 2006 ballot in the Portland-metro area.
It directs Metro to protect land around rivers and streams, preserve fish
and wildlife habitat, and restore natural areas. It also includes tough
accountability provisions – including a citizens’ oversight
committee and yearly independent financial audits that must be published
in the newspaper – to ensure the money is spent as promised. We
think these things are extremely valuable.
Together this
November, we can protect our legacy of natural areas and clean water for
future generations.
Visit the site, get involved.
April 24, 2006
Old Joy to Premier at PDX Film Fest
Following successful runs at the Sundance and Rotterdam Film Festivals, the film based on Plazm editor Jon Raymond's story debuts in Portland.
March 28, 2006
Debut of the Rubber Vloeren Font
Rubber Vloeren is adapted from a hand-drawn alphabet by Piet Zwart used for a series of advertisements for rubber flooring in the Netherlands. The original ad is pictured above on the right.
The Rubber Vloeren alphabet was used by Zwart on several other
occasions. There's a showing in Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp of the most
spectacular version: a gold-on-blue version on ceramic tiles made for the
First Church of Christ Scientist in The Hague when working for the
architect Berlage. We hope this first digital rendering will find new life
in new places Zwart could have never imagined.
Designed by Ian Lynam @ Wordshape. Thanks, Ian.
March 15, 2006
Joshua Berger Invited to Participate in the Urban Forest Project.
The Urban Forest Project will plant 200 banners by designers, artists, photographers and illustrators from around the world in New York’s Times Square.
Each banner will use the form of the tree, or a metaphor for the tree, to
make a powerful visual statement. Together they’ll create a forest
of thoughtful images in one of the world’s busiest, most energetic
and emphatically urban intersections. We hope that bringing nature and art
to the “Crossroads of the World,” visited by 30 million people
each year and known mainly for its dazzling commercial signage, will
encourage passersby to pause, if only for a moment, to be entertained,
stimulated or provoked by the work.
Plazm's Joshua Berger has
been selected as a participant.
This project is organized by
the
AIGA New York
Chapter,
Times Square Alliance, and
Worldstudio Foundation.
January 22, 2006
Old Joy wins Tiger at Rotterdam Film Festival
Rotterdam, Holland—Following up a successful opening at Sundance, Old Joy has landed a prestigous Tiger at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Read more about Old Joy below under the December 20, 2005 news entry.
New York premier set for the week of March 27, 2006, check your
local media.
Portland premier set for April 26, 2006 at the Guild
theater.
January 16, 2006
Martin Luther King, Jr. day
December 20, 2005
Old Joy to premiere at Sundance, Plazm completes titling sequence.
Park City, Utah – The film Old Joy based on Plazm editor Jon Raymond's story will have it's world premiere at Sundance this year. Old Joy is directed by Kelly Reichardt and written by Raymond and Kelly Reichardt.
Plazm has completed a titling sequence for the film.
The story: Two old friends, Mark and Kurt,
reunite for a weekend camping trip in the mountains outside Portland,
Oregon. Kurt is still the free spirit, unrooted, drifting through life,
but Mark has moved on, with a serious relationship and baby on the way. As
the hours progress and the landscape changes, the two men move through a
range of subtle emotions that trigger unfamiliarity with the new terrain
in their relationship. What will be the rules of their continued
friendship?
Kelly Reichardt returns to Sundance (River of Grass
screened at the 1994 Festival) with a fully realized exploration of the
desire to rekindle that which you once had. The textured score by
Yo La Tengo fits perfectly, but it is the rich sound design that amplifies
the notion that the real story is being told in the silences. Reichardt
purposefully encodes the road trip and search for natural hot springs with
the metaphors that explore our innate desire to renew old freedoms.
The joy referred to in the title is the pleasure of male
bonding in a world unfettered by anything but youthful idealism. Of course
we know we can't go back, but what takes its place? What makes Old
Joy so moving is that we discover joy can still exist; it just looks
and feels different.
—
John
CooperLocate the Sundance schedule
November 26, 2005
Red Bull Theater Presents The Revenger’s Tragedy
New York – The follow up to Red Bull Theater's critically acclaimed run with Pericles opens on Monday and continues through December 18, 2005.
The Revenger's Tragedy, a Jacobean thriller written a few years after
Hamlet, is a searing examination of the need for justice and the desire
for vengeance. Vindice, the "Revenger," sets off a chain
reaction of havoc in a corrupt and decadent Venice, which exposes
outrageous indulgences and government hypocrisy, and ends in a coup de
théâter massacre of epic proportions. Part black comedy, part
social satire, the play is a gleefully macabre plot-twisting blender full
of Shakespeare's greatest hits. Written by Thomas Middleton, Cyril
Tourneur, or Annonymous, the work is adapted by Artistic Director Jesse
Berger.
Poster and marketing materials designed by Plazm's
Joshua Berger and Todd Houlette.
View poster. For
more information, showtimes and tickets visit
www.redbulltheater.com.
November 14, 2005
Crack Press Ten Year Anniversary
Crack Press Celebrates its Tenth Year of creating artwork in Portland, Oregon.
Plazm partner Pete McCracken will show a retrospective of work at
Berbati's during December 2005, opening the show on First Thursday,
December 1st, 7-10PM. The show with feature work created at Crack Press
by Pete and also collaborative work with artists, designers and musicians
in Portland, the Pacific Northwest and from around the world, including
Jim Riswold, Alfredo Jaar, David Eckard, Peter Wegner, Shawn Wolfe, Danny
Seim, Jeff Kovel, Kevin Sampsell, Joshua Berger, Shane Sauers, Derek
Welch, Danny Seim, Jeremy Bittermann, Matthew Stadler, Menomena, Nut Brown
and many others.
The Crack Press Anniversary will also include the Crack Ten Bash at
Berbati's Pan on Saturday December 10th with bands Lackthereof, Rollerball
and The Doors of Perception, who will perform one last show to celebrate
Crack Press's Ten Years and Jim Morrison's 62nd birthday. For more
information contact Pete McCracken, 503 229 0892 or email at pete@crackpress.com.
To view more work visit www.crackpress.com
November 08, 2005
Plazm's Joshua Berger and eight others kick off the Change Me project to raise money for The One Campaign.
The project is now open for contributions. Check it out here: http://changeme.gettyimages.com/main.aspx
The
project raises awareness and money for the One Campaign. The One Campaign
is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans to fight the emergency of
global AIDS and extreme poverty. Learn more at
http://www.one.org/
For each entry, Getty Images will donate $10, up to their goal of
$50,000.
Project initiated by Chris Ashworth of Getty Images. Thank you, Chris!
Launch contributors include: Jane Walsh, Michael C. Place, Mike Benson,
Andrea Lugli, Adrian Shaughnessy, Joshua Berger, Alexei Tylevich, Chris
Ashworth, and Paul Belford. Please join us.
November 03, 2005
The 32nd Annual Northwest Film and Video Festival
Plazm created the promotional material for the Northwest Film and Video Festival again this year, as we have many of the past six years.
The festival—one of the premiere showcases of new work by
Northwest film & video artists—kicks off November 4 at 7 PM with
a program of shorts followed by the Opening Night Party in the Fred and
Suzanne Fields Ballroom in the Portland Art Museum’s newly renovated
Mark Building.
Jim Appleton shot everything for the print campaign. Joelle McGonagal
did the macramé and the beaded type. The writer was Ginger
Robinson. There are also three trailers which you can see in theaters
directed by Todd Korgan, Ryan Jeffrey, and the Sushitaka Brothers.
View the campaign
>>
November 01, 2005
Plazm and the Heathman Hotel sponsor 2GQ's Regarding Language
readings ~ word games ~ performance ~ music
Part of the Enteractive Language Festival
November 3, First Thursday at the Heathman Hotel Tea Room
SW
Broadway & Salmon
7-10 pm ~ Please dress exquisitely
Free/suggested donation
$5-15
featuring:
• Haiku Inferno
•
Lauren K. Newman/LKN
• Word of Mouth
•
Angelle Hebert & Philip Kraft
• Julian Tulip
• Yvette Tourangeau
with your hosts, Tiffany Lee
Brown & Nora McCrea
Sponsored by the Heathman Hotel and PLAZM
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCES:
Haiku Inferno is Kevin Sampsell, Frayn Masters, Frank D'Andrea, and
Elizabeth Miller -- "The Ramones of Haiku."
Critically acclaimed multi-instrumentalist/song-noise composer Lauren
K. Newman (LKN) is known for her out-of-control stage presence and
emotionally resonant guitar technique. For 2GQ, the founder of Stellamarie
and former drummer of Vanishing Kids promises to do something a little
different.
Angelle Hebert & Phillip Kraft present performance art involving
language, movement, and music.
Yvette Tourangeau leads you, the audience, in an ongoing game of
Ahnamanna. This language was created especially for tonight's show, and
the booklets at your tables will help you speak it with each other. And
oh: it can also be played as a drinking game.
Word of Mouth is a found poetry project conceived by Scott Allen Smith.
He recruits people to collect words on a certain day— this time, on
Day of the Dead. The resulting poems will be read by Scott himself and Zea
Ewert-Bean.
Julian Tulip has a wicked way with singing, spoken word, and new wave
stylings. At our show, this Julian Tulip's Licorice and Cancer Fags
founder will entertain from the bench of the Tea Room's sleek grand piano.
He'll also be creating a special song/spoken word piece for infamous free
speech advocate and arts attorney Kohel Haver, who won the song as a prize
at 2GQ's September fundraiser.
Visit www.2GQ.org for
more information.
October 08, 2005
Girls Rock! The Movie materials launch
Girls Rock! is a documentary about the Portland, Oregon based Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls.
Plazm's Joshua Berger worked with a few other folks to put together
materials to help market the film: big props to Jeff and all at Deepplay
for their dedication on building the web site. Also to Melina Rodrigo for
the drawings, and Yasmeen Ayyashi for all the hours slaving over a hot
computer on the print materials and packaging. Everyone is doing this
stuff pro-bono to help get the film off the ground. If you want to get
involved or view the trailer, check out the first version of the site
here:
girlsrockmovie.com
>>And of course, check out the actual
Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls—
one of the most inspiring things ever to happen in Portland, Oregon.
July 19, 2005
Plazm participates in CMYK Independent Magazine Festival in Barcelona
Plazm is one of many publications from around the world to participate in this international festival dedicated to independent magazine culture.
CMYK 2005 will take place in Barcelona on July 21st, 22nd and 23rd at the
CCCB - Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona.
Check out the
web site for more details about participation, workshops, directions,
etc.:
www.cmyk-mags.comClick on “SOFA” for an excellent list of independent
magazines from around the world with corresponding web site links...
July 01, 2005
Project Hello Extended Through July.
Thanks to everyone who has attended and participated in the Project Hello show so far... due to the amazing response, we are extending the show for the month of July.
Please come by if you can -- view the works, pick up and distribute signs,
or submit photographs.
Exhibition Schedule
July
1-July 31 Hours: M-F 9am - 5pm
Plazm 1640 NW Johnson St.
Portland OR 97209
June 03, 2005
Design of Dissent exhibit opens at SVA in New York
The exhibit, entitled “The Design of Dissent—Socially and Politically Driven Graphics,” is curated by Milton Glaser and Mirko Illic.
It corresponds with the release of their book by the same title. Plazm has
some work featured— including the piece “Supersize"
(pictured above).
Opening reception: Friday June 3, 2005 6 pm:
A conversation with Milton Glaser and Mirko Illic moderated by Steven
Heller 7-9 pm: Opening reception with wine and tapas
Continuing
exhibition: The exhibition will remain on view June 3 - July 2, 2005.
Location: School of Visual Arts 209 East 23 Street New York, NY
10010 212.592.2144
Exhibition hours: Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday, 9am – 6:30pm; Thursday, 9am - 8pm; Saturday, 10am
– 5pm. Closed Sundays and public holidays. The exhibition is fully
accessible by wheelchair.
June 01, 2005
Announcing Project Hello - the Portland premiere.
In an effort to give homeless individuals names and put the growing homeless issue in the face of the public and politicians, thousands of Hello My Name Is... signs are being distributed around the world to those living on the streets.
Holding a sign with their own handwritten name, the individuals are being
photographed for a website—
www.projecthello.org— several
exhibitions, a book, public service announcements, and more.
Hundreds of the photos will be on display in our lobby during the month
of June. Please feel free to come by and view the works, pick up and
distribute signs, or submit photographs. Contact info@projecthello.org for
further information.
Exhibition Schedule
July 1-July 31
Hours: M-F 9am - 5pm
Plazm 1640 NW Johnson St. Portland OR 97209
May 18, 2005
Longtime Plazm Editor Jonathan Raymond Set To Release First Novel
Signed Copies Of Hardbound First Edition Available at plazm.com
We are pleased to announce the release of The Half-Life (Bloomsbury),
Jonathan Raymond's stunning debut novel about two friendships separated by
generations but bound together by a dark mystery.
The Half-Life,
with extraordinary power and grace, reveals the pleasures and heartaches
that bind us to one another.
Download
Press Release
May 06, 2005
Plazm editor Jonathan Raymond and photographer Justine Kurland present their latest collaboration, Old Joy.
Fiction writer Jonathan Raymond and photographer Justine Kurland discuss their work as seen in their recent collaboration, Old Joy (Artspace Books).
In the meditation on cosmic themes of purification and desire, writer
Jonathan Raymond describes a hike by two old friends to remote hot springs
in the foothills of the Cascade mountain range. As the hours progress, and
the landscape evolves, and Kurt and Mark enact a pilgrimage of
consciousness replete with mystical insights, wonderment, and intimations
of subtle spiritual battle. Which path is the truly enlightened? What
perception is the truly devout? How does one live in a fallen
world?TICKETS: $8 PICA Members / $10 General Call or email PICA for more
details 503.242.1419 email: pica@pica.org web:
www.pica.org
February 14, 2005
Nobody Said it was Going to be Like This
Joshua Berger lecture and presentation at the Ad Federation of Central Oregon
February 16th 11:30am – 1:00pm
Bend Golf & Country Club
Reservations are due by noon on February 14th either by calling
541-385-1992 or registering online
For more info:
www.adfedco.org
February 07, 2005
Exhibition Opening: The Power of Sex in Contemporary Design
Museum of Sex: New York City 233 5th Avenue @ 27th Street
Curators: Joshua Berger and Sarah Dougher Exhibit advisor: Steven Heller
New work featured as part of the exhibition: Spotlight on the
Permanent Collection For more info:
www.mosex.com
January 28, 2005
Plazm creative director Joshua Berger speaks at Portland State University AIGA
January 28, 2005 / 6:30 pm PSU Art Building SW 5th and College Street Room
200
January 15, 2005
Plazm creative director Joshua Berger speaks at Design Madison
January 11, 2005
Museum Of Sex Taps Joshua Berger, Sarah Dougher, and Steven Heller to Curate Exhibition
NEW YORK CITY— The Museum of Sex's “Spotlight on the Permanent Collection,” opening February 7 at 233 Fifth Avenue, will include a hundred-twenty-five sq. ft. wall of startling and often humorous images curated and designed by Sarah Dougher and Joshua Berger.
“The Power of Sex in Contemporary Design” focuses on the use of
sex and sexuality in design and advertising, and features an introduction
by exhibit adviser Steven Heller. For current exhibition hours, see their
Spotlight on the Permanent Collection.
March 03, 2004
Plazm and PNCA present Alfredo Jaar—artist and architect—for a lecture and workshop.
MacArthur Fellow Alfredo Jaar challenges commonly held opinions about the relationship between art and politics.
He fuses the aesthetic and the ethical to focus on injustices around the
world such as poverty, exploitation and genocide. Jaar was born in
Santiago de Chile, where he studied architecture and film direction. Since
1982 he has lived and worked in New York City.
His work has been
exhibited in solo and group shows at museums throughout the world,
including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Chicago's Museum
of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm. Jaar has
also participated in the Venice, São Paulo, Johannesburg, Sydney,
Istanbul and Kwangju Biennales, as well as Documenta in Kassel.
Difficult Images
Alfredo Jaar will present a selection of
projects from the last 20 years, including film, performance,
installations and public projects that fuse the aesthetic and the ethical
to focus on injustices around the world such as poverty, exploitation and
genocide. Jaar is conscious of how one-dimensional the mass media has made
stories on global politics and how it has cheapened the power of the
image.
"I feel we have reached a point where we have too
many images," he says. "Images inform us about the world, and by
understanding images we form ideas about ourselves. If images lose their
power to affect us, we have lost our humanity." For Jaar, one of the
most difficult aspects of his art is finding a balance between sending a
powerful political message and preaching.
www.alfredojaar.netDownload Press
Release
October 12, 2003
Plazm Applies Design to Social Activism in the Americas
In Brazil, at the AIGA National Convention in Vancouver, B.C., and at the Enteractive Language Festival in Portland, Plazm will speak, present work, and conduct workshops.
Portland, Ore., USA -- For the second conference in a row, the prestigious
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) has invited Plazm partners
Joshua Berger and Pete McCracken to present and conduct workshops at their
bi-annual gathering of the North American design community. The Plazm talk
and workshop are entitled "Cultures of Violence, Cultures of Peace:
Anti-War Graphics in a Digital Age," a theme echoed in other
workshops and shows the partners will present in Brazil and in Oregon this
fall.
This year's AIGA conference, focusing on social activism
with the theme "The Power of Design: Culture, Economy,
Environment," will be held October 23-26 in Vancouver, B.C. Plazm
will present a concise history of post World-War II anti-war graphics,
followed by a case study of the latest Gulf War examining how digital
media has changed the observation, consumption, and analysis of conflict
and violence in our society. The role of digital media and networked
communications in organizing and mobilizing anti-war efforts will also be
discussed, including the website Plazm created at
www.anti-war.us."Designers have played a significant role in world events,"
explains Berger. "The most effective posters in nearly every modern
political movement have been created by artists and designers, who now
have computers and the Internet to work with. We are trained in using
methods of mass communication and propaganda. We have the potential to
catalyze a movement and create powerful, positive messages in the
world."
Together with Anthony Ramos of On Interactive and
Jon Steinhorst, Berger developed the anti-war.us site to collect and
distribute anti-war materials to other graphic designers as well as to
activists all over the world.
June 09, 2003
Plazm and PNCA present artist Shawn Wolfe
Plazm and PNCA (Pacific Northwest College of Art) bring Seattle-based artist Shawn Wolfe to Portland for a lecture.
Shawn Wolfe is best known as the man behind Beatkit™. The so called
"brand without a product" has served as inspiration for the
improbable RemoverInstaller™ as well as the artist's global
"Panic Now" campaign, paintings, t-shirts, comics, sculpture and
performance. A practicing designer for over fifteen years, Wolfe currently
makes his home in Seattle where he works and teaches at Cornish College of
the Arts.
www.shawnwolfe.com
November 10, 2002
Behind the Seen: Plazm and PNCA present David Carson
Plazm and PNCA (Pacific Northwest College of Art) bring NYC-based designer David Cason to Portland for a lecture and workshop.
May 05, 2002
Plazm Presents at the AIGA National Conference Washington, D.C.
At AIGA 2002, Joshua Berger, Pete McCracken, and Sarah Dougher of Plazm invited designers to talk about the kinds of projects they do, share strategies, and learn new tools and approaches.
what does your art save? who does your art serve? what does your art
conserve? what does your art convey? whom does your art convince? what
does your art confirm? what does your art affirm? to whom does your art
ascent? where does your art ascend? what does your art pretend? how does
your art blend? what does your art bend? whom does your art defend? what
does your art detail? what does your art entail? whom does your art
entitle? whom does your art excite? what does your art expect? what does
your art expand? to whom does your art pander? on whom does your art
depend? what does your art suspend? what does your art suffer? what does
your art offer? whom does your art offend? to whom does your art attend?
what does your art attack? what nut does your art crack? what does your
art crave? who does your art save?
As creative individuals
trained in sophisticated methods of communication, designers are uniquely
positioned to expand or disrupt the status quo.
How do
you experience the conflict between commercial and pro-bono work?
How
have you reconciled it?
How does your work build
community?Plazm also participated in the 20/20
portion of the opening night ceremony: 20 designers each giving a
one-minute presentation.
View ours here.
June 10, 2001
Plazm Open House
The weather finally turns sunny. The boxes are all unpacked -- well, not all of them.
So we had a welcome party to break in our new home, the old Black &
Decker building at 1640 NW Johnson. Everyone stopped working, except Dave
who diligently worked to repair yet another Mac casualty. Thanks to
Portland Brewing for the beautiful beverages and to Saucebox for the
delicious treats.
May 15, 2001
Plazm Presents an evening with renowned typographer Matthew Carter
Matthew Carter (born in London in 1937, and son of Harry Carter) is one of today's most influential typographers.
He worked for Mergenthaler Linotype (1965-1981), and co-founded Bitstream
Inc. with Mike Parker in 1981. In January 1992, he founded Carter &
Cone with Cherie Cone. In 1995, he won the Gold Prize at the annual Tokyo
type Directors Club competition for Sophia.
In 1997, he
received the TDC Medal for "significant contributions to the life,
art, and craft of typography". He has created hundreds of typefaces--
many ubiquitous to the common eye including Verdana for Microsoft, Bell
Gothic which is utilized in most US phone books, custom faces for
Newsweek, US News & World Report, among many others.
www.carterandcone.com
Download Press Release
May 01, 2001
Plazm 10-Year Anniversary
May 2001 saw the corks pop for our third annual blow-out party, this time celebrating our tenth anniversary and featuring the musical stylings of Gene Defcon, Tracy and the Plastics, Hochenkeit, DJPJ & DJ Barry, and visual art by Jeremy Bitterman, Cris Moss, Cathy McClure, John Mullin, Austin Whipple & Chris Katholi, Jon Steinhorst, Jesse Engum, and Pete McCracken.
This particular year was extra special because the party celebrated Plazm's
tenth year. Over 600 people attended the event -- some travelling 3000
miles to be there -- with many staying until darkness turned to light. The
party was sponsored by Culligan Water, Final Home, Tanqueray X and the
Portland Brewing Company.
