Howdy! Happy Holidays to you! We will out of town starting Dec. 22nd until January 15th, however we will be checking email and catching up after the New Year. Have a great holiday season time!

In 1993, Pete McCracken founded the eclectic foundry to create typefaces for his design projects. The first typeface he created in 1992 and the first to be inducted into the foundry was “Petescript” – based on his handwriting created in his second year at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Surprised by the first commercial application he witnessed, Petescript was the cover of the Aerosmith greatest hits album BIG ONES. Since then, Pete has created over 75 typefaces and custom typography both experimental and commercial for MTV, Adidas, Dr. Martens, Doug Fir, Nike, Wieden and Kennedy, PICA, Starbucks, BBH, TARGET, PNCA, Plazm magazine and most recently for SPORE, a life simulation game from Electronic Arts, in collaboration with Cinco Design and Veronika Burian. Pete also continues to teach at his alma mater, PNCA and mentor emerging graphic artists and typeface designers. Thanks to all for the amazing work and great times – we look forward to many more.
!VIVA PLAZMFONTS!

Presenting CLIP “ART”, a solo show by Pete McCracken. Serigraphy on canvas at OFFICE PDX, 2204 NE Alberta.

A three weight typeface family created exclusively for the Electronic Arts life simulation hit computer game. Pete created and executed the proprietary typefaces in collaboration with the very talented Veronica Burian and Cinco Design.
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Faculty and students to complete 340 monotypes and screen prints for The Nines, a new hotel in downtown Portland. The team included PNCA faculty: Christy Wyckoff, Tom Prochaska, Yoshi Kitai, Abra Ancliffe, Morgan Walker and Matthew Letzelter, print technician Palmarin Merges, and PNCA students Alena Turner, Vanessa Kauffman and Derek Franklin.

Pete McCracken of Crack Press | Plazmfonts handprinted 3 color letterpress pages on newsprint for Ziba Design’s OCAC brand identity. The tactile nature of the letterpress and materials emphasized the creative direction. The book will be added to the AIGA Design Museum in Denver, CO.

Kevin Sampsell’s largest and most ambitious collection to date, Creamy Bullets, captures the Portland author at the top of his game. Collecting everything from stunning flash fiction to his hilarious and intense longer stories, Sampsell’s latest is a highlight reel of his uncollected work from the past ten years.
Check out: Portland Mercury Review