CV
Joshua Berger
Born 1967, New York City, NY
Occupation:
Editorial Art Director and Designer
Artist
Plazm; founder, president, creative director; 1991-present
Biographical Statement:
Joshua Berger is a founder and principal of Plazm, an award-winning design studio and publisher of Plazm magazine. He is the winner of Gold Medals from the Portland Design Festival and the Leipzig Book Fair (with John C. Jay), and has been recognized by design publications and award shows including the AIGA Annual Show, the Art Directors Club, as well as 2004 and 2008 honorary exhibitions at ZGRAF in Zagreb, Croatia.
Berger’s prints, installations, and street interventions often confront sociopolitical and environmental issues. Recent projects include “5%” for the Urban Forest exhibition in New York’s Times Square, and the development and curation of Anti-war.us, a web project that collects anti-war graphics from the international design community for distribution to activists around the world.
Plazm has been listed by ID magazine as one of the 40 most influential design studios in the world and received the Creative Resistance Award from Adbusters. The complete catalog of Plazm magazine resides in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art an the Denver Art Museum.
Selected Exhibitions:
- In Other’s Words, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2008
- ZGRAF10, honorary exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia, 2008
- "Stimulating Sales: Sex in Design" Museum of Sex, New York City, 2008
- Denver Art Museum, permanent collection, Plazm Magazine complete catalog
- “The Design of Dissent” Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Pennsylvania, 2007
- “XXX: The Power of Sex in Contemporary Design” Western Oregon University, Monmouth, 2007
- ORLO Bear Essential, “The Green Menace” commissioned work, 2007
- “Now I Know My ABC’s” Group Show, Wurst Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2006
- Prints for PICA, Portland, Oregon, 2006
- “Urban Forest” Times Square, New York City, 2006
- “Sedition” Group Show, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2006
- “Change Me” Getty Images Group Show/Traveling Exhibition, London, UK 2005
- Prints for PICA, Portland, Oregon, 2005
- AIGA Group Show, “Creative Growth” Art Institute of Portland, Oregon 2005
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) “Landmark” Portland, Oregon 2005
- The Design of Dissent, School of Visual Arts, New York City, 2005
- “Sex Sells” Museum of Sex, New York City, 2005
- ZGRAF9, honorary exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia, 2004
- The Organ “Broadside” poster, commissioned work, September 2004
- Prints for PICA, Portland, Oregon, 2004
- K magazine (Malaysia), commissioned work, 2004
- Optic Nerve Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2003
- Language of Print, Enteractive Language Festival, Portland, Oregon, 2003
- Prints for PICA, Portland, Oregon, 2003
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), permanent collection, Plazm Magazine complete catalog
- SFMoMA, permanent collection, Campaign for PICA identity materials
- American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) Traveling Exhibition, Oregon, 2002
- “Counter Canvas” exhibition, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon, 2001
- Sphere magazine, “Wish You Were Here” commissioned work, 2001
- Idea magazine (Japan), commissioned work, 2000
- Metropolis magazine, commissioned work, 2000
- AIGA Traveling Exhibition, Oregon, 1999
- AIGA Biennial Exhibition Portland, Oregon, 1998
- AIGA Traveling Exhibition, Oregon, 1998
- AIGA Traveling Exhibition, Oregon, 1997
- Designer as Author: Voices and Visions, nationally curated exhibition, Raleigh, NC, 1996
- AIGA Biennial Exhibition Portland, Oregon, 1996
- AIGA Traveling Exhibition, Oregon, 1996
- AIGA Traveling Exhibition, Oregon, 1995
Awards:
- Gold Medal, Portland Design Festival, 2003
- Adbusters, Creative Resistance Award , 2001
- Graphis, Poster Annual 2001
- AIGA National Show, 50 Books, 50 Covers 1999
- Copenhagen Museum, one of “the 14 most beautiful books” 1998
- Art Directors Club, award of merit, 1998
- Gold Medal, Leipzig Bookfair, 1998
- 100 Show, award of merit, 1998
- I.D. magazine, I.D. 40 (with Plazm; listing of the world’s 40 most influential designers)
Bibliography:
- Plazm Magazine, Issues 1-29, 1991 to the present (Art Director, Designer)
- F30: Thirty Essential Typefaces Pao&Paws 2006 (Editor, Curator)
- ESPN: Ultimate Highlight Reel ESPN Books 2006 (Art Director, Designer)
- Marion Jones: Life in the Fast Lane Warner Books 2004 (Art Director, Designer)
- 100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers Rockport 2003 (Art Director, Designer, Curator)
- XXX: The Power of Sex in Graphic Design Rockport 2002 (Art Director, Designer, Curator)
- John Huet: Soul of the Game Melcher Media/Workman, 1997 (Designer)
Symposia:
- The Back Room, Portland, Oregon, 2008
- Western Oregon University, 2007
- Design Madison lecture series, 2005
- AIGA Portland, Oregon, 2005
- Ad Federation of Central Oregon lecture series, 2005
- AIGA National Conference, featured presenter, Vancouver, B.C., 2003
- AIGA National Conference, featured presenter, Washington D.C., 2002
- AIGA Lecture Series Charleton, South Carolina, 2002
- AIGA Lecture Series Cincinnati, Ohio, 2001
- ATYPI, featured presenter, Boston, MA, 1999
- AIGA Lecture Series Seattle, Washington 1999
- AIGA Lecture Series Portland, Oregon 1995
Media Coverage:
- Writing for Visual Thinkers, Peach Pit Press / AIGA Design Press, 2008
- Stereographics, Victionary, 2008
- 1000 Music Graphics Rockport, 2008
- International Design Yearbook, Guangzhou, MDX 2008
- Design for Special Events, Rockport, 2008
- Communication Arts, September 2008
- Education of Design Entrepreneur, Rockport, 2008
- SustainAble, Rockport, 2008
- Communication Arts, July 2008
- 1000 Retail Graphics, Rockport, 2007
- The Little Book of Promotions, Rockport, 2007
- Fashion Unfolding: Uncover the Power of Graphics in Fashion Victionary, 2007
- Creativity magazine, January 2007
- Handmade, Ginko Press, December 2006
- IdN, October 2006
- Influences: A Lexicon Of Contemporary Graphic Design, Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006
- Handmade, Ginko Press, 2006
- Portland Monthly, April 2005
- Idea magazine (Japan), January 2005
- Shift! magazine (Switzerland), 2004
- 2GQ, feature and commissioned work, October 2004
- Novuum (Germany), August, 2004
- Creativity magazine, June 2004
- Fast Company, March 2004
- Page (Germany), January 2004
- Grafik (UK), feature August 2003
- Page (Germany), August 2003
- Communication Arts, July 2003
- Creativity magazine, June 2003
- Print magazine, June 2003
- The Oregonian, June 2003
- Creative Review (UK), May 2003
- Eye (UK), May 2003
- Gobshite Quarterly, May 2003
- Pen (Japan), April 2003
- Index-A, Charles Wilkin forward 2003
- The Oregonian, March 2003
- Step magazine, feature article 2003
- Creativepro.com, feature, Winter 2002
- E-Design (Taiwan), feature article, 2002
- Education of a Design Entrepreneur, Abrams, 2002
- Oregon Business magazine, 50 to watch, 2002
- The Oregonian, 2002
- The Portland Tribune, business page cover story, 2002
- Communication Arts, Exhibit, 2001
- How Magazine, feature September 2001
- Adbusters, January/February 2001
- Provocative Graphics, Rockport Publishers, 2001
- Then is Now: Sampling from the Past, Rockport Publishers, 2001
- Communication Arts, Exhibit, 2000
- Eye (UK), 2000
- Limited Resources, Limitless Creativity, PIE Books, 2000
- Next: The New Generation in Graphic Design, North Light Books, 2000
- Oregon Business Journal, 2000
- Oregon Humanities, 2000
- The Oregonian, 2000
- Step magazine, feature article 2000
- Visible Music, PIE Books, 2000
- DesignNet (Korea), feature article, 1999
- Cool Type 2, North Light Books, 1999
- Extreme Fonts: Digital Faces of the Future, Madison Square Press, 1999
- Idea magazine (Japan), 1999
- IDN (Hong Kong), 1999
- One and Two Color Graphics, PIE Books, 1999
- Oregon Business magazine, 1999
- Print Magazine Computer Design Annual, 1999
- Radical Type, North Light Books, 1999
- Communication Arts, Design Annual 1998
- Communication Arts, Photography Annual 1998
- Graphis, Design Annual 1998
- Idea magazine (Japan), 1998
- Magazine Editorial Graphics, PIE Books, 1998
- Print Magazine Computer Design Annual, 1998
- Print Magazine Regional Design Annual, 1998
- Radical Graphics, Chronicle Books, 1998
- Cool Type, North Light Books, 1997
- Creative Review (UK), November 1997
- I.D. magazine, I.D. 40, 1997
- Adbusters, January/February 1997
- The Oregonian, 1997
- Print Magazine Regional Design Annual, 1997
- Typefetish: Obsessive Design in the Digital Age PBC International, 1997
- Typography Now 2, Booth Clibborn Editions, 1997
- The Oregonian, 1996
- Print Magazine Regional Design Annual, 1996
- Street Smart Design, North Light Books, 1996
- Upper and lower case 1996
- Creative Review (UK), June 1995
- Creative Review (UK), May 1995
- Adobe magazine, feature article, 1995
- A Blip in the Continuum of Graphic Design, Peach Pit Press, 1995
- The Oregonian, 1995
- Print Magazine Regional Design Annual, 1995
- The Best in Cutting Edge Typography, Quarto Publishing, 1995
- Upper and lower case 1995
- Wired, feature article, 1995
- The Oregonian, 1994
- Upper and lower case 1994
- The Oregonian, 1993
- The Oregonian, 1992
Contact:
PO Box 2863. Portland, Oregon 97208
503-528-8000 x102 / josh@plazm.com