Urban Honking

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 — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts & letters: www.neworegon.org […]

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 studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts […]

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 has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & […]

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 out half-truths here, as recorded 2+ years ago. I’ll be presenting again this Wednesday, doing […]

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve gone through intermittent periods of being obsessed with Etch-A-Sketches. The last such period was in 2005. There was an Etch-A-Sketch resident in the French pastry shop where I worked at the time and so I’d doodle with it at slow moments, eventually buying one for home use and […]

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 contemporary avant garde manga artist. Yokoyama’s work has been translated into English and published by […]

In this iteration of InCUBATE’s Sunday Soup, the InCUBATE people have teamed up with the group Material Exchange and artist Adam Bobette to open Repair Shop at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Repair Shop will host a bar, a soup kitchen and will also be open to repair physical objects. Money raised from repair fees […]

I realized that I haven’t posted about STOCK yet on Urban Honking – Stock is a monthly public dinner event and presentation series, which funds small to medium-sized artist projects. I work on this project with two other individuals: Ariana Jacob and Amber Bell. Hosted by Gallery Homeland in Portland, Oregon, diners pay a modest […]

“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 on paper and are really crap on the screen. This Sunday, we’re going to take […]