Plazm magazine has been published since 1991 by a collective of designers, writers, and others in Portland, Oregon Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the state of Oregon. As of July 2009, it has an estimated population of 582,130 making it the 29th most populous in the United States. It has been referred to as the most environmentally friendly or "green" city in, United States ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language. The complete catalog of Plazm magazine [1] is included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum in San Francisco, California established in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art, the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art. A gift of 36 artworks from Albert M. Bender, including The Flower Carrier, 1935, by Diego and the Denver Art Museum. Plazm Media [2] has become an influential and award-winning design firm, [3] font foundry (which is now plazmfonts.com an independent design firm and letter-founder)[4] [5], and publisher. [6]
Notable designers who have been affiliated with Plazm include David Carson David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the nineties. In particular, his widely-imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge" era.[, Art Chantry Arthur S.W. Chantry II is a graphic designer often associated with the posters and album covers he did for bands from the Pacific Northwest, such as Nirvana, Hole and The Sonics. He is also notable for his work in logo design, Milton Glaser Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968, Rebeca Mendez Rebeca Méndez is an artist and designer living in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is professor at UCLA Design Media Arts Department in Los Angeles, California. She was born and raised in Mexico City and received her BFA in Communication Design and her MFA (1996) in media art and design from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Modern Dog, Scott Clum, John C. Jay, Bruce Licher, Frank Kozik, Pablo Medina, The Attik, Why Not Associates, and Ed Fella Ed Fella is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute of.
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Brief history (magazine)
Founders of the magazine were Patrick Bardel, Joshua Berger, Karynn Fish, Neva Knott, Andrew McFarlane, Rueben Niesenfeld. Plazm magazine editors have been Neva Knott (issues 1-9), Yariv Rabinovitch (issues 10-17), and Jonathan Raymond (issues 18-28). In 2005, Tiffany Lee Brown joined Jon Raymond as co-editor of the magazine, and Sarah Gottesdiener became the magazine's Editorial Coordinator and frequent contributor.
The magazine started as a large-format newsprint quarterly publication and is now a thick, perfect-bound, four-color, book-style magazine published annually. The magazine's blog was launched in 2008 on plazm.com; local Portland newspaper The Oregonian wrote, "We always take Plazm's recommendations seriously" and "These guys are among the most creative characters in the city, though, and we've already bookmarked them." However, the newspaper noted that the blog's "first few entries seemed a little heavy on 'great typefaces we've known and loved.'[7].
A collection of archived articles from the magazine's 18-year history appears on the website as well. Urban Honking referred to Plazm's "octopus identity" that has "spread tentacles into Portland's creative world and far beyond."[8]
Plazmfonts
In 1993 Pete McCracken founded Plazmfonts in collaboration with the magazine. As Director of Plazmfonts division he led the creative efforts in designing the exclusive corporate typefaces for Nike, Adidas, and MTV [9]. In 2006, McCracken, a Creative Director and partner in the Plazm design firm, left the magazine to create an independent branding and typeface design studio, also called Plazmfonts.
Plazm design firm
Plazm is also a design firm that builds identities, advertising, interactive and retail experiences, editorial branding, custom typography, books, and magazines. It was founded in 1995 by Joshua Berger, Pete McCracken and Niko Courtelis. Some designers who have worked for the firm have included Enrique Mosqueda, Jon Kieselhorst, Jon Steinhorst, Carole Ambauen, Lotus Child, Ian Lynam, and Yoko Tsukahara. Plazm authored the book XXX: The Power of Sex in Contemporary Design which won the Gold Medal at the Portland Design Festival "DNA-PDX."[10]
Plazm was listed in 1997 in I.D. I.D. was founded in 1954 as Industrial Design. The name was later abbreviated to an initialism; in the 1980s the initials came to stand for International Design to reflect the magazine's broadened scope. Since 1954, the magazine has published the Annual Design Review, a juried design competition curated by I.D. staff and industry practitioners as one of the world’s 40 most influential design firms and has been featured in numerous publications and award shows including the 100 show, AIGA, the professional association for design national show, the Art Director’s Club, Eye, Communication Arts, Graphis, and IDEA (Industrial Design Excellence Awards The International Design Excellence Awards is an award program co-sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine and Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), and according to the IDSA, "is dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and economy". Every year). Plazm received the creative resistance award from Adbusters Adbusters Media Foundation is a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The foundation describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist in 2001. Plazm partners regularly present work internationally, teach, create workshops and judge competitions.
Clients of Plazm design have included Nike, LucasFilm, ESPN, Burgerville, The Cooley Gallery, Portland Center Stage, Jantzen Swimwear, and MTV.
Plazm and Social Responsibility
Plazm publishes a statement of social responsibility and environmental sustainability. Co-founder and current principal Joshua Berger became known for his work in ecological concerns and recycling systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as noted by Oregon Business Journal and other magazines. The Feminist Review and Adbusters magazine have taken note of Plazm's work in social responsibility and gender equality; the former called the magazine "challenging and explicit." [11]
The statement's current version is published on the Plazm website. It reads: "At Plazm, we believe that designers, writers, and artists have a responsibility to the world. We know how to use the tools of creativity and communication; we can use them for social change along with personal vision. As individuals and collectively, we work toward environmental, social, and political causes and contribute our services to organizations promoting arts, culture, social change, and sustainability."
Plazm nonprofit clients and collaborators receiving pro bono or discounted work for social, artistic, community, and environmental causes include the PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art), ORLO, Pacific Northwest College of Art, New Oregon Arts & Letters, Northwest Film and Video Festival, Red Bull Theater, and KMHD radio. Plazm's Joshua Berger has shown political art in Times Square in the Urban Forest Project [12], The Organ Review of Art, UMASS, Mark Woolley Gallery, the Public Works series at Someday, and in 2GQ, a publication of 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts.
References
- ^ Plazm Magazine website Plazm Magazine: Documenting Creative Culture Since 1991
- ^ Plazm Media website
- ^ Plazm Design website
- ^ Plazmfonts website
- ^ lab-zine.com LAB Issue 1 - 270 degrees - Pete McCracken
- ^ Plazm website
- ^ The Oregonian
- ^ Urban Honking
- ^ plazmfonts.com Plazmfonts Celebrated 15 Year Anniversary - 2008.08.01
- ^ All Business
- ^ Feminist Review
- ^ Urban Forest
External links
- Plazm Magazine website
- Plazmfonts website
- Steven Heller interview with Plazm founder Joshua Berger
- The Back Room, January 2008 - Jon Raymond, Tiffany Lee Brown and Joshua Berger in discussion with Stephanie Snyder
- CreativePro.com - Design Doyenne: Plazm Media's Fluid Approach to Design
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