Category Archives: Opinion

Literary Arts recently announced its Oregon Book Awards for 2009 and Plazm editor Jon Raymond has won the prestigious Ken Kesey award for fiction. Jon will be on the radio tomorrow on OPB’s Think Out Loud at 9am PST, listen … Continue reading →

Nope, this doesn’t come from The Onion! The Chamber of Commerce is actually, really suing the Yes Men for a prank press conference they managed to pull off. Political theatre: now punishable by lawsuit in the United States of America. … Continue reading →

I’ll be debuting and giving away installment #3 of my Poster Initiative offset-printed poster series at Super Deluxe this Wednesday during my Pecha Kucha Night presentation. The posters are produced in editions of 1,000 and distributed around Tokyo. Not advertising- … Continue reading →

Ensenada is new typeface I designed based on hand-cut lettering that adorns businesses throughout the city of Ensenada in Baja California in Mexico. Available through MyFonts. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — … Continue reading →

Lorin Brown is pumping out the jammz over at One & Done! A healthy range of projects that span identity, editorial illustration, apparel graphics, and tons more. Worth checkin’! — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design … Continue reading →

New Oregon Interview Series Food Night Host Nora Robertson sits down with Greg Higgins, Naomi Pomeroy and Stumptown’s Matt Lounsbury Urban Grind East, 2214 NE Oregon Monday, October 26th, 7-8:30 pm, doors open at 6:30, $5 admission — plazm blog … Continue reading →

I have the dubious honor of being the very first Pecha Kucha Night presenter to have a presentation presented online at PKN’s new Presentations section of their website, designed by UltraSuperNew. You can listen to me sputter, babble, and throw … Continue reading →

Yokoyama Yuichi’s latest book, Baby Boom, is out now. 160 pages of two- and three-color overprinted marker drawing madness. The book is primarily wordless (katakana onomatopoeia sound effects included, however) and an excellent introduction to the work of Japan’s leading … Continue reading →

“I make home moviestherefore I am.I am, thereforeI make home movies.” ~Jonas Mekas, Walden (1969) As a film programmer, my one hard and fast rule was to actually watch anything before screening it. A lot of movies sound really great … Continue reading →

This October, How We Develop’s debut event, CONTENT, will premier at the Ace Hotel in Portland, OR. This event is designed, in its curation of talent and selection of venue, to harness and highlight the individuality stemming from the independent … Continue reading →