Category Archives: Opinion

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 →

“Rad Hatter” invites Portland to check out the new Tender Loving Empire gallery-shop-etcetera space downtown… and invited some 40 local artists to transform trucker hats into wearable art. Folks like Mona Superhero and Chris Haberman are making hats; all will … Continue reading →

My last solo art show in PDX in a loooong time opens on Friday at Nationale. 6-9Here’s the info:Sarah Gottesdiener presents new work at NATIONALE, with contributors Jenstar Brockman, Michelle Calvert, Lacy Davis, KaetlinKennedy, Aaron Montaigne & Publication Studio“One of … Continue reading →

J. P. Townley created the poster above, riffing on the WW II messaging below. Free download to use or print as you like, the images are also free for changing and updating. Townley says the poster is “not quite there.” … Continue reading →

New issue of IDEA on newsstands now! featuring: Critical MassCompiled by Ian Lynam + Idea magazine A 100-page inquiry into contemporary critical practices in graphic design featuring: Mark Owens, Zak Kyes, Jon Sueda, Brian Roettinger, Daniel Eatock, Scott Ponik, Michael Worthington, … Continue reading →

New typeface release from Wordshape/MyFonts: Cooper Black Condensed is a less wide, but not squished variation on Cooper Black. The history of this typeface: Cooper Black, the most famous and successful of Oswald Cooper’s type designs was released in 1920, … Continue reading →

Interno is the latest typographic offering from Wordshape. Interno is a headline typeface built from a Walter Ballmer Olivetti logo exploration drawn sometime in 1960. Work on Interno commenced in 2006, but was soon abandoned. In 2009, Eli Carrico picked … Continue reading →