Opinion
3 new old fonts
PLAZM
Three typefaces I designed years ago got new leases on life via MyFonts this week: Devil’s Advocate, a digital version of an old ATF typeface. Inversion, culled from a bit of German lettering circa 1910. Sandberg Honorarium, an original display font created in tribute to the career of Willem Sandberg. — plazm blog has moved […]
THE GREEN MUSEUM
PLAZM
As anyone who makes environmental art can attest, much land art, environmental art, and site responsive eco-art doesn’t make great bedfellows with galleries and museums. This is how we ended up with our rather strange performance and site art tradition of displaying documentation rather than the originating object or action itself. Your environmentally situated artwork […]
THE GREEN MUSEUM
PLAZM
As anyone who makes environmental art can attest, much land art, environmental art, and site responsive eco-art doesn’t make great bedfellows with galleries and museums. This is how we ended up with our rather strange performance and site art tradition of displaying documentation rather than the originating object or action itself. Your environmentally situated artwork […]
FutureSplash Technologies Not Dead
Light and Sound
No One does splash pages anymore, let alone using Flash, right? Well, you haven’t checked out the Audio Dregs site lately then, because we’re bringing it back… back… bckk.. bkkk.. *echo effect* with the ROTFLOL inspired splash page.
500 Euro Note Abandoned
Money Blog
“British bank wholesalers have withdrawn 500 euro notes from sale because they are fuelling organised crime.The decision to end trading was made after police found 9 out of every 10 of the notes in circulation are linked to crime, tax evasion and terrorism. It closed an annual 500 million euro (£424 million) trade in the distinctive largest […]
A Tourist-Powered, Green Times Square?
PLAZM
When the Department of Transportation in NYC issued an RFP for two dimensional artworks in Times Square, it was picturing designs to be painted on the fairly new pedestrian blocks on Broadway. The artists of [v]vital[ny] in New York envision something greener and much more ambitious. “Kinetic Path, an interlocking, replicable leaf pattern of piezoelectric […]
A Tourist-Powered, Green Times Square?
PLAZM
When the Department of Transportation in NYC issued an RFP for two dimensional artworks in Times Square, it was picturing designs to be painted on the fairly new pedestrian blocks on Broadway. The artists of [v]vital[ny] in New York envision something greener and much more ambitious. “Kinetic Path, an interlocking, replicable leaf pattern of piezoelectric […]
Fiscal Responsibility Please
KmikeyM
I just found out the Oregon Republican Party is past due on more than $10,000 for loans they took out in 2008. They are now asking for donations to repay the debt brought on by former Chairman Vance Day and ignored by current leadership until it was leaked to the press. I only just learned […]
June Art Party is June 4th
PLAZM
I made two poster versions, just because. — 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 —