We’ve been helping put this fun thing together — a 4-day design road trip curated by Civilization and FISK to take Seattle and Portland designers to Bend, Oregon for Bend Design and back.

Meals / lodging / transportation / shuttle bus / workshops / 3 days of tickets to Bend Design included.

The road trip will include stops in Seattle and Portland with design-related events and conversations. Full itinerary & tickets available at benddesign.org.

Limited capacity available — get on the bus.

The conference itself is quite an exceptional opportunity. You can read an interview with me on the Bend Design blog talking about why I think this event is unique.

• Michael Ellsworth, Civilization
• Jen Thomas, Visible
• Bijan Berahimi, FISK
• Joshua Berger, Plazm

Plus, mingle with some of our local favorites who will be speaking at Bend Design this October 25, 26 + 27, including Jeff Kovel from SkyLab, Kim Kovel from Nike, John Demsey from W+K, and Lynette Xanders from Wild Alchemy.

Free event, limited seating. Reserve here.

Tue, August 21, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM PDT

Nemo Design
1875 Southeast Belmont Street
Portland, OR 97214

Beer generously provided by Fort George Brewery.

Along with Plazm you will find magazines art directed or created by Herb Lubalin, General Idea, Tibor Kalman, Shaz Madani, Clay Hickson, Liana Jegers, and countless contributors.

A cool thing about this show is that you can actually page through the magazines using white gloves.

There is an opening reception at 7pm — details here: http://fiskgallery.com/

For the opening our Portland Stamp Company made 50 commemorative stamps. They are available at the gallery only, $10. First come, first served.

Just for fun, here are a few of the things Ed has done for Plazm magazine over the years.

Cover, Plazm #17, 1998. Wait that was 20 years ago?

His first contribution was back in 1997 in Plazm issue 16. We did a 32-page newsprint coloring book that was inserted into each issue of the magazine. There were 30 great contributors in the coloring book alone! Ed Fella did the page shown here.

Speaking of 30, here’s a lovely Plazm 30 for our thirtieth issue.

Plazm has made some demented calligraphy inspired by Donald Trump’s demented words. Take them back and send him packing.

The screens are burned!  BYOB—Bring Your Own Bag or Shirt and pull a print Sunday night at Beacon Sound from 7-9 pm.

Green Line Press will be on hand so YOU can silkscreen our ‘nasty woman’ or ‘bad hombre’ designs onto your own t-shirt or bag— free.

E*Rock will be DJing.  

Enjoy the tunes.
Fill out your ballots with friends.
All ages.

7-9 pm
Sunday 11/6

Beacon Sound
3636 N Mississippi Ave

Friends of Plazm may use the following code to receive $25.00 off the full conference pass. Purchase by October 1. Code is: PARTNERBDC2016

FREE tickets available Wednesday, 2/10/16 at Noon PST at rsvp.beyondthispoint.design

Saturday, February 20, 2016 | 5:30-7:30PMDoors at 5 PM | Event begins promptly at 5:30 PM

52 Limited, 330 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd #1B Portland, OR 97214 BROUGHT TO YOU BY CIVILIZATION & DESIGNSPEAKS

The IPRC is proud to host Uppercase Magazine Publisher and author Janine Vangool selling her new book “The Typewriter: A Graphic History of the Beloved Machine”.

IPRC Event details

Typewriter Jam
Saturday October 10th, 2015
4-9pm
IPRC
1001 SE Division Street
FREE!

• “The Museum” An exhibit of 50 rare typewriters,  (only for looking).

• “Dr. Typewriter ” Matt from ACE Typewriter will be doing demonstrations, taking a typewriter apart, repairing it, cleaning it, etc.  He will also do some clinic/ walk-in diagnostics, and have ribbons, supplies (and maybe a few typewriter?) on hand/for sale.

• Try your hands at typing on dozens of different styles of typewriters.

• Think you’re fast? Enter the speed-typing trials and test your WPM.

• An exhibit of historical typewriter ephemera; vintage manuals, typing instruction books and poster, typewriter ribbon tins, advertising, and other miscellany.

• Hands on fancy print pulls of typewriter themed poster.

• Special Typewriter Jam swag

• Beer by Fort George Brewery

If that’s not enough—Janine Vangool will be giving a public lecture at PSU!

Join the editor of Uppercase Magazine for a journey through the 150+ year history of the the typewriter through the graphic design and advertising that tells its story over the decades.

Janine Vangool: Typewriter, a History
Sunday, Oct 11 at 7pm
Shattuck Hall
$10

Eventbrite tickets

#TypewriterJam

Art has shaped much of contemporary design with his hands-on, low-fidelity techniques and his unapologetic, poignant ideas. He is a design icon.

We’ve been fortunate enough to collaborate with Art over the years in the pages of Plazm magazine and in two books we have authored. Below is the first fax he sent me when working on the cover for issue #15 (1997).

There are a few silkscreen posters of that cover still available.  Purchase at BuyOlympia if your interested.

The last time Art was here in Portland for an event was in 2007. Plazm put it together with PNCA. We designed the poster and companion matchbooks below. I remember a conversation over dinner before his presentation and Art talking in detail about design history. Not the kind you might have read about in history books, but a kind that exists in both ubiquity and obscurity. Since then I have followed along as he began posting on Facebook, sharing a similar conversation with the world—a personal view of history, shaped by being present and participating.

Anyone interested in the design history you couldn’t read about in books—until now—should check this out. Powell’s Tuesday at 7:30 pm

I am looking forward to participating in this visually-driven panel in Seattle next week. Not really sure what the title “next wave graphic design & branding” means. I guess I will learn from the other panelists. I like the description that they wrote though. Shaping culture. Doing things that benefit other living beings. I like those things.

The panel was put together by Gray magazine in partnership with Interior Design Show West and IDSA. EVENT DETAILS: At the Sorrento Cocktails in the penthouse-level Top of the Town at 6 pm. Panel discussion starts at 7 pm. Most of these events sell out. Tickets at Eventbrite. Join us! PANELISTS (from top left): Michael Ellsworth, Civilization (Seattle) Jane Cox, Cause + Affect (Vancouver) Joshua Berger, Plazm (Portland) Gage Mitchell, Modern Species (Seattle)