PLAZM

06/19/2025

Politically it seems like ages ago when John McCain ran for president against Barak Obama. He had been caught in 2008 on camera singing "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" to the tune of the famous Beach Boys song Barbara Ann.

and made this poster to commemorate and raise awareness about the clear danger this posed. Not sure how many we printed, not more than 100. They were screen printed by Jason Miranda. We have a couple of these 18 x 24" posters left in the shop if you are interested in that.

More importantly and urgently an unprovoked war with Iran is not okay.

It doesn't matter who is president. According to Joe Cirincione, a non-proliferation expert who has studied Iran for decades, "Netanyahu is using the same playbook that he, and neoconservatives in the United States, used in 2002 and 2003 to convince the American public to go to war with Iraq. They are claiming that military action is necessary before the smoking gun becomes a mushroom cloud. It wasn't true then, and it's not true now." Read the full interview .info

The U.S. Constitution clearly requires Congress to authorize any war. Under the War Powers Act, presidents are allowed to commit U.S. troops into combat in order to protect the lives of Americans and U.S. interests. No American lives are being threatened by Iran currently. Members of Congress have introduced new War Powers Resolutions to try to prevent war with Iran. Call your members of Congress today to tell them to co-sponsor & support the War Powers Resolutions ☎️ 202-224-3121

06/16/2025

It's getting hazy on this Homeward Bound journey. New version of this year's 3-Way IPA for Fort George Brewery ... The hazy edition is a collaboration between Mirage, Sunriver Brewing and Fort George. It launched at Mirage in Seattle over the weekend and will be available throughout the Pacific Northwest later in the month. You can also order the beer to shipped to your door if you live in Oregon, check the Fort George website for details.

As always, 3-Way IPA is illustrated our friend and longtime collaborator .long_

Also showing the first 2025 can here. You can see the full history of 3-Way IPA on the Fort George website at www.fortgeorgebrewery.com/3-way

06/13/2025

Lots of rumors about ICE activity Rural Organizing Project made this video with a few reminders and resources about how we can keep each other safe in this moment.

06/12/2025

Dissent is Patriotic

Not only is dissent patriotic, dissent protects democracy.

Saturday is a nationwide call to peaceful protest, against tyranny, for freedom, for government of the people, by the people, for the people. Over 1,800 events have been organized in all 50 states. Visit nokings.org to find one near you.

Poster design by

06/06/2025

New collaboration with our pal Ian Lynam.

Announcing Artist Series No. 58: Cooper Chrome

New signed limited edition of 100. x .pascal explore the redrawing of the typeface Cooper Chrome.Yes, Cooper Chrome! Being type geeks, we remember this cool cut of Cooper from back in the rub-down type days ...

This 11 x 17" sheet is a digital offset print with a silver screen printed overprint.
Purchase comes with full font download of the Cooper Chrome Italic Pro typeface.

Artist Series No. 59
Ian Lynam x Eglif Pascal Santoso
11 x 17" digital offset print with screen printed overprint, 9 stamps
Signed, numbered edition of 100
Comes with a Cooper Chrome digital font download
$50
Purchase of the typeface by itself is $80, so this is a great way to get a signed edition and the font.

You can read about Ian and Pascal's creative process in the brief interview on The Portland Stamp Company website as well as find a link to purchase the print.

And /// Tokyo release party scheduled for Saturday, June 21st at 7pm at ///
〒151-0073 Tokyo, Shibuya, Sasazuka, 1 Chome−33−10 香樹ハイツ 101

06/03/2025

Spruce Budd, spruce tip ale

Each spring for a super limited time you can get some of the Spruce Budd from Fort George Brewery 🌲🍻 It's a beer with wild, hand-picked spruce tips. And no hops. Details in their post below. Head out to Astoria, or if you are in Oregon order from their website and have it shipped to your door.

Ink + salvaged spruce trees were used by our pal Paul Keating to make the spruce print design found on these cans.

From Fort George: "The piney, fresh, forest-y sweetness of springtime in the PNW. Every year, right around the beginning of May, Fort George goes out to the forest to pick spruce. People have been making stuff out of spruce tips on this continent for hundreds of years. In the 16th Century, First Nations people taught sailors from Europe how to brew a tea from cedar that contained enough Vitamin C to prevent them from dying of scurvy. Easy to make, likely to keep sailors alive and also... alcohol. Win, win, win. We don’t make Spruce Budd every year because we’re otherwise in danger of dying of scurvy. We just make it because it’s tasty."

05/22/2025

"The spell interrupted,” writes artist Damien Davis in Hyperallergic

For Black people, watching the Nottoway plantation go up in flames felt like witnessing a lie collapse under the weight of truth.

05/15/2025

The art of collaboration

In 2013 Fort George Brewery came to us to package their latest collaboration beer. They do a lot of collaborations, which helps them learn and grow and of course have fun. The big difference with this collaboration? It was a 3-Way. Fort George would invite two other breweries to join them in a quest to make the best IPA they could. Hence the name, 3-Way IPA.

We began by working with our friend and longtime collaborator .long_ to illustrate the characters making the beer. The first four cans Patrick drew portraits of the brewers making music together. The music has continued to be a theme, but the portraits evolved into anthropomorphic spirit animals. The brief is always a pleasure to receive. This year, we are bringing it all back home, a nod to the Disney classic Homeward Bound.

See the full history of 3-Way IPA on the Fort George website at www.fortgeorgebrewery.com/3-way

The official release date for 3-Way is this Saturday May 17 at the Lupulin Ecstasy festival in Astoria. As if you need an excuse to go to Astoria. You can get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lupulin-ecstasy-2025-tickets-1291789680709

You can also preorder the beer to shipped to your door if you live in Oregon, check the Fort George website for details.

05/13/2025

Fracture

New book from our friend and longtime collaborator Ian Lynam published by .

There are a ton of amazing visual examples in here, but the true value of this work is in its historical rigor. By deeply rooting the design history of Japan in its culture and the context of the times the works were made, Ian has created an invaluable resource that will promote deeper understanding between East and West.

05/12/2025

Following up on our previous post showing new work for Red Bull Theater in collaboration with legendary animator and award-winning filmmaker Bill Plympton.

Bill has been featured in Plazm magazine (issue no. 12) and we also sat down with him for an OnCreativity interview. Here's part 2 where discusses the creative process, having the mind of a child and drawing for 12 hours a day.

With the “OnCreativity” series, Plazm explores the nature of creativity and how it works via informal interviews with designers, artists, musicians, animators, and educators. Like creativity itself, their differing points of view inspire, provoke, confuse, and delight.

Directed by DP .c.bryant

Explore more OnCreativity videos at www.oncreativity.tv or via link in bio.

04/28/2025

Stay Sick

The second Dave Thomas contribution to Plazm is an amazing article which he authored: "Ghoulardi, Lessons in Mayhem from the First Age of Punk."

This piece was published in Plazm No. 28, circa 2006. in honor of Mr. Thomas, this article can now be found in our online magazine. Print spreads designed by Thomas Kwak.

Copies of both issues are available, but there are only three copies of issue 28 left for sale.

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RIP Dave Thomas, a true original.ubu

Lessons in Mayhem from the First Age of Punk by Dave Thomas

04/28/2025

Always leaving but never going.

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Dave Thomas, the legend behind Pere Ubu (Official). Mr. Thomas appeared twice in Plazm magazine. The first time was an interview with Fern Gnesin in Plazm No. 11, published 1995. We posted the interview today in our online magazine, link below.

The photographs of Dave Thomas are by Bob Waldman. Bob photographed Mr. Thomas then projected his photos onto objects and rephotographed them. Two appeared in the interview, a third was not published and is shown in the online article. Spread designed by Joshua Berger.

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