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Plazm Fonts
[Pete McCracken]
Portland, OR-based company. Its timeline: - Plazm magazine started as a free zine in 1991. The founding partners were Pete McCracken, Joshua Berger and Niko Courtelis.
- Plazm Fonts was founded in 1993 by Pete McCracken and Joshua Berger. McCracken led the effort to create the foundry and is the director and sole type designer there.
- Plazm incorporated into Plazm Media, Inc. in 1995.
- McCracken buys all of the assets of the type design portion of the company in 2006.
- In 2010, the branding and type design business that was Plazmfonts become the Portland Type Co. Plazm continues as a design company not involved in type design, led by creative director Joshua Berger.
The typefaces, by designer: - Marcus Burlile: Stelefont (1993), Widows (1994), Flytrap (1995), GhostTown (1995), Ablefont (1993, of Harry Potter fame), Anvil (1993), Autumnull (1995), Colony (1993), Pilgrim (1993), Reckon (1996), Sillbat (1994), Spiderust (1995), Thistlem (1995), Kitsch (1993), COLONIST.
- Andrew D. Taylor: Avenatha (1995).
- Robert James Foley Jr: Blitso-funk (1995).
- Angus R. Shamal: CensorSans (1994), CensorSerif (1994), Credit (1995), Epilogue.pfa (1995), Humain-Graphica (1995), Humain-Synthetica (1995), Platrica (1994), Roscent (1995).
- Ermin Mededovic: Centrifuga (1996), Board (1995).
- Marty Bee: Cibola (1995), ThreeRivers (1994), WetandWilde (1994).
- Don Synstelien: Derision (1995), NudE (1995), SlickDog (1995).
- Dave Henderleiter: DizzySpell (1995).
- Opulux Fonts (Dave Henderlieter): DoeMan (1995), DogboySplitHome (1995), Pulsitallia (1995).
- Pete McCracken: Erosive (1993), Facsimiled (1994), INKy-black (1994), Mtvpe (1997), NeoDeko (1993), Petescript (1992: based on Pete's handwriting, this font was used on Aerosmith's album Big Ones), PresidentNixon (1994), Altered (1993).
- Jim Marcus: EscalidoGothico (1994), EscalidoStreak (1994).
- Stephen Farrell: Flexure (1993).
- Christian Kusters: Hadrian (1996), Retrospecta (1994), Unzialis (1994), Hybrid (1996), Interface One (1996).
- Garland Lyn: Milk (1994).
- Paul Bissex: Pscruf (1995), Rufnu (1994).
- Robert Selby: Selbezi (1994), NewHamburger (1993).
- Charles Wilkin: Velvet (1995).
- Roland Henss: Capitalis Pirata.
- Riq Mosqueda: Codesigner of Mtvpe (1997)
- Elliott Peter Earls: Subluxation (1994).
- Scott Yoshinaga: Grunge (1994).
- Travis A. Waage: Belch (1994).
- Pablo A. Medina: Vitrina, Cuba.
Other fonts: CarPlatesCarPlates, NorthBergen, PHatFont, Pilgrim, RocketScience-1, Twiggy, Victory (2002-2004, an Avenir-Futura style geometric sans family custom made for Nike. The typographers at Typographicom are blasting this typeface. Marc Oxborrow writes: It seems that the less original the work, the more overblown and pretentious the description.). Write-up at Fontnews. Fonts also sold by Mindcandy. Bio of McCracken by ATypI: Pete McCracken is a type designer, designer, artist, musician and educator in Portland Oregon. He owns and runs Plazm Media with business partner Josh Berger. Current projects include 20+ custom typefaces for Nike, the recently published book "XXX The Power of Sex in Contemporary Design", and an extensive branding project for Pierce Brosnan. He also owns and runs Crack Press producing music and custom artwork using silkscreen and letterpress. Current projects include a 43 color commissioned screen print of the Last Supper; Heavy Grass, a metal bluegrass band; and a cd of various compositions called Crack Tracks. He also teaches in the design programme at PNCA. Plazm link. FontShop link. Klingspor link.
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