Emigre #15

Do You Read Me? (1990)


36 pages, 11.25 x 16.75, plus poster, 22.25 x 32.5.

Edition of 6,000.

Printed at Lompa Printing, Albany, CA.

Design and production: Rudy VanderLans.

Typeface designs: Zuzana Licko.


CONTENTS:
Peter Mertens, Legibility (essay).
Rudy VanderLans, Max Kisman (essay on Max Kisman).
Rudy VanderLans, separate interviews with Zuzana Licko, Jeffery Keedy and Karrie Jacobs.
John Downer, Triplex Italic (typeface design).
Zuzana Licko, Citizen (typeface design).
Rudy VanderLans, Do You Read Me? (poster stapled into center).
Rudy VanderLans, interview with Barry Deck (design and typefaces: Deck).
Rudy VanderLans, interview with Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller.
Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller, Type Writing: Structuralism and Typography (essay, design: Lupton and Miller).
Rudy VanderLans, On the Phone with Johnny D. (conversation).
2 Student Types (including Diane Gromala).


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Emigre, Inc. is a digital type foundry based in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1984, coinciding with the birth of the Macintosh computer, the Emigre team, consisting of Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, with the addition of Tim Starback in 1993, were among the early adaptors to the new digital technology.

From 1984 until 2005 Emigre published the legendary Emigre magazine, a quarterly publication devoted to visual communication. Emigre created some of the very first digital layouts and typeface designs winning them both world-wide acclaim and much criticism. The exposure of these typefaces in Emigre magazine eventually lead to the creation of Emigre Fonts, one of the first independent type foundries utilizing personal computer technology for the design and distribution of fonts. They created the model for hundreds of small foundries who followed in their footsteps.

As a team, Emigre has been honored with numerous awards including the 1994 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, and the 1998 Charles Nypels Award for excellence in the field of typography. In 1993 they were selected as a leading design innovator in the First Annual I.D. Forty. Emigre is also a recipient of the 1997 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal Award, its highest honors. In October 2010 the Emigre team was inducted as Honorary members of the Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago, and in 2013 Licko received the prestigious Annual Typography Award from the Society of Typographic Aficionados. Most recently Emigre received the 29th New York Type Directors Club Medal. Watch the video tribute shown at the presentation of the TDC Medal in the Rose Auditorium at The Cooper Union in New York City in July 2016.

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