Urban Honking

Clobber Grotesk Bold is a new typeface just released via MyFonts. It was one of a two-part family originally designed for a metal-cutting business, as they were seeking bold letterforms for their custom aluminum furniture that would be readable at very small sizes. Clobber is a fairly traditional grotesk, designed in the same vein as […]

Its the official Bobby Birdman fansite that collects al the unofficial fan vids for the song “Gone Beyond”! Weird! Who knew that there were that many out there, I had no idea myself. There are already some New Moods fan vids too, maybe those will be posted next. http://gonegonegonebeyond.tumblr.com/

Yes, I’m making comics again. TO BE CONTINUED…

In the first session of Big Games this past week we undertook an exercise in rapid group game design. We were divided up into groups of eight or so, given two decks of cards and a box of six-sided dice and told to design a game using just those props in 15 minutes. The main […]

Plazm at the Backroom, January 11, 2008. Curator Stephanie Snyder in conversation with Plazm editors Joshua Berger, Jon Raymond, and Tiffany Lee Brown on the occasion of the Plazm Backroom event. We recently posted the essays from Jon, Josh, and Tiffany plus a complete podcast of the hour+ discussion on our website. Photo above from […]

We watched a quite spectacular film the other night. No one has ever heard of it, and I can’t remember where we even heard of it. It is called “Fido,” and it is a biting social commentary….literally! It’s about zombies. It’s the 1950′s, and we are informed via an educational film strip over the opening […]

Just released via MyFonts, my latest typeface release is the definitive version of Oswald Bruce Cooper’s great lost typeface Cooper Fullface Italic. At the end of 1927, Oswald Bruce Cooper yearned to create a heavy “modern” face- akin to Broadway and other display types in height and proportion, but more nuanced while being a dense, […]

uh, yeah. Just in time for Sundance! (image stolen from designated.area … thx to Juxtapoz for the pointer.) — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts & letters: www.neworegon.org —

I never quite got around to putting together my 2009 mix at the end of the year-partially because I wanted to make it a proper mix and was on the road away from my turntables. Ah well, if anyone is interested enough send me an email and i’ll send over the unmixed mixtape. Here’s what […]