Author Archives: magdalen

Plazm editor Jon Raymond wrote this lovely film. You should go.Meek’s Cutoff: A Screening to Benefit the Cultural Trust Tuesday, March 15 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm Location Salem/Historic Elsinore Theatre/170 High Street SE Created By Oregon Cultural Trust More Info Catch this entirely-made-in-Oregon … Continue reading →

Chris Bruch’s show is invigorating and shows an almost supernatural ability to combine various materials and techniques.  He combines materials like fiberglass, epoxy, and pigment in clever and innovative ways, making sculptures that look like giant meteors or half human, … Continue reading →

“Thunderbitch: Women Designers in Northwest Rock 1966–2010,” opens August 5 in Seattle at Tether Design Gallery, 323 Occidental Ave S., Seattle, WA 98104, The opening runs 5-8pm, with live music by Barbara Ireland + Stone Gossard and Visqueen, plus an … Continue reading →

The Department of Defense is unable to account for the use of $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion it spent on reconstruction in Iraq. From the GOOD blog. They claim their source, which we haven’t checked, is none other than … Continue reading →

Just who are these instrument-wielding miscreants, and what exactly do they want with you? Well, I assume they want your money, because their CD release show isn’t free. But these dudes are smart enough that they could’ve become Wall Street … Continue reading →

Bob Garfield is a writer who used Crowdspring to get a cheap book design made. Then he found his own type of work being shunted to cheap labor. Now he’s worried. We all should be. Change is inevitable, so perhaps … Continue reading →

Though it doesn’t explain why this website is called “27b slash 6” instead of “27b stroke 6” (which is what they actually say in the movie, Brazil), this post about a lost cat and a typical designer is… lovely. — … Continue reading →

Plazm magazine seeks Advertising Sales Representative Plazm is a magazine of design, culture, art, literature, and music, founded in Portland in 1991. Our advertisers run the gamut from small to large, local to international, such as: • Ace Hotel • … Continue reading →

What if you sent off your most impassioned manifesto ever, and even CNN reported on your lame choice of fonts? “These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built,” … Continue reading →

Ever notice how some 70-99% of the graphic designers and art directors mentioned in design books, at awards—even in otherwise progressive magazines like Plazm—are male? Let’s assume for a moment that women have also influenced the aesthetic and political juggernaut … Continue reading →