museum of contemporary craft – PLAZM

Plazm Design Week Exhibit at MoCC Extended Through This Weekend

magdalen — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:36:10 +0000

If you were unable to make it down to the Museum of Contemporary Craft during last week’s Design Week 2012 festivities, you have a little extra time to check out the Plazm exhibit. As part of Design Week 2012, Plazm was asked to do an installation featuring twenty years of Plazm magazine ephemera. Josh Berger selected and installed the materials. MoCC is keeping the installation up through the weekend, well, Saturday, because they are closed Sundays, so get on down there and check it out.

Museum of Contemporary Craft
Tuesday through Saturday 11 am to 6 pm
Open 11 am to 8 pm

Plazm at Design Week Portland

magdalen — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:07:40 +0000

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 Joshua Berger. Details here.

Museum of Contemporary Craft (2nd floor)
724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR 97204
October 9-13, 11am-6pm.
OPEN HOUSE at the museum: THURSDAY, 3-6pm, $4 museum entry or free with your Design Week Portland passport

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Also, check out Design Crush celebrating the diversity of creative thinking within the local print publishing culture. Peek inside the studios of influential art directors from a range of local publications and presses, from art + design
magazines, to weeklies, to comics and book publishers.

Featuring: Bear Deluxe Magazine, Bitch | Feminist Response to Pop Culture, Dill Pickle Club, Portland Monthly, Timber Press, Tin House, Top Shelf, Topaz Design, Portland Mercury, Willamette Week. More details here.

Making Faces Screening Tonight

Joshua Berger — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:40:12 +0000

About ten years ago Plazm had the honor of doing a joint lecture with Jim Rimmer. Jim was a Vancouver, BC based artist and typographer. He had rooms and rooms filled with old type machines. He created limited edition artist books, made fonts in both digital and analog format, and, I found out during the presentation, designed the classic Heart logo. Jim passed away a few years ago but not before he worked to create the first simultaneous release of a digital and metal letterpress typeface. This is documented in a film screening tonight at the Museum of Contemporary Craft.

The film, Making Faces, by Richard Kegler documents the lost art of pantographic type making. It will be screened twice—at 7:00 and again at 9:00 pm, with a Q & A session with the filmmaker after each showing (doors open 30 minutes prior to each showing).

Here’s the poster that I designed for the Plazm / Jim Rimmer talk in Seattle.