Urban Honking

If there were headlines about the sports betting between Steve and I, today would be all about Mike’s boner. boner noun 1. blunder: an embarrassing mistake Let’s take a look at the results… Dec 14 thru Dec 20 Mike goes from being $25 up to being down $60 (ouch!) Dec 21 thru Dec 27 Steve […]

Bobby Birdman at THIS from THIS on Vimeo.

Two new font releases on MyFonts this week. The first is the definitive version of Oswald Bruce Cooper’s classic typeface Cooper Italic. 1924 saw the release of Cooper Italic, the italic companion to Cooper Oldstyle. Cooper Italic possesses “a most unusual swing” in a number of the characters, most specifically the scooped, pigeon-toed feet of […]

Host Nora Robertson sits down with fashion designers Adam Arnold, Ryan Christensen and Elizabeth Dye to discuss their work and Portland’s evolving fashion culture. Wednesday, January 27th, Urban Grind East, 2214 NE Oregon St., $5 admission. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog […]

We just announced the Hot Knives’ book GREATEST SIPS, which is a collection of 21 essays on various beers written by Alex and Evan. The creation of this book has been a long journey. I’m much more accustomed to creating things for the web, and the shift to creating a physical item was full of […]

Last chance to sign up for Typography 101 at Temple University Japan. The course has been expanded to include designing custom typefaces and programming digital fonts from them. — 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 & […]

Domino’s Pizza (NYSE:DPZ) claims to have remade their pizza with a new focus on making food that actually tastes good. They are calling it a Pizza Turnaround. The problem is that while the pizza may be changed, the pizza is still bad.

Previously posted about Jessica Jackson Hutchins in the 2010 Biennial… two other artists featured in Plazm #29 are also in the Whitney show; Storm Tharp and Alex Hubbard. Cooley Gallery director Stephanie Snyder wrote a feature for Plazm on Storm last fall. View that here. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm […]

Clobber Grotesk Stencil Bold is a new typeface I designed now available through MyFonts. Clobber marries crude stencil forms with extreme legibility/readability at small sizes. — 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 —

In the Houston airport I go to the bathroom. I’m in there, doing my business, when I hear a woman’s voice asking for “Lily.” Finally a little tiny voice pipes up from another stall. Apparently Lily is a 4-year-old, traveling with her grandpa, and she has now been in the bathroom for so long that […]