Category Archives: graphic design

Plazm at Design Week Portland

Posted on October 10, 2012 by magdalen

Check out all the sweet Design Week Portland events. http://designweekportland.com/ Plazm is participating with an exhibit sampling 20 years worth of Plazm magazines, posters and assorted ephemera at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. The display was selected and arranged by … Continue reading →

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Final Week – Plazm: 20 Years of Art and Design

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Joshua Berger

The twenty-year retrospective show of Plazm’s art and design work will close on December 10th. There are hundreds of pieces of ephemera, posters, and one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Hope you can make it out to the ‘couv this week. We … Continue reading →

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Great archive of Pelican covers

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Joshua Berger

Dozens and dozens of classic Pelican covers can be found on the Things Magazine web site. Categorized by decade with decent resolution scans. Fantastic to see these all in one place. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — … Continue reading →

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Liza Ryan – SPILL

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Joshua Berger

Some shots of the recently published catalog that I designed for the Liza Ryan – SPILL show are now up in the Plazm portfolio. It was truly great to collaborate with artist Liza Ryan and Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder … Continue reading →

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Envisioning Information: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Joshua Berger

Lust put this together for De Volkskrant newspaper. It’s quite an amazing semiotic analysis and re-categorization of the sea of information we swim in. The Oogle search engine queries Google search and determines the semantic orientation of each word in … Continue reading →

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The Potential of Web Typography

Posted on June 29, 2009 by ianl

Firefox 3.5 is out now- go get that sucker! The Mozilla Japan team asked that Craig Mod and I jointly write and design this demo page of what is now possible using Firefox’s new @font-face, a CSS rule implemented in … Continue reading →

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The Great Design RIp-Off

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Joshua Berger

Is it fair for global corporations to ask designers to create spec work on the promise of recognition and a potentially small payday? That appears to be what is happening on a mass scale. Doubleday posted a logo contest for … Continue reading →

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Psychedelia Hits Denver

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Joshua Berger

Over 300 objects including Victor Moscoso’s poster “Chambers Brothers, Matrix, San Francisco” (1967), pictured above, are on view in “The Psychedelic Experience.” It opens Saturday at the Denver Art Museum and runs through July 21. For more details: Denver Art … Continue reading →

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Ride 2 Live

Posted on March 15, 2009 by ianl

From May 31st through June 6th, graphic designer Sean Deyoe of The Royal Academy of Nuts + Bolts will be riding his bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles as part of AIDS/Lifecycle 8. But going those 545 miles is … Continue reading →

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