Emigre #44

Design as Content (1997)


64 pages, 8.375 x 10.875.

Edition of 50,000.

Printed at American Web, Denver, CO.

Designer and editor: Rudy VanderLans.

Emigre Fonts: Zuzana Licko.


CONTENTS:

Rudy VanderLans, Introduction.

The Readers Respond (mail).

Diane Gromala, Hype or Hope (review of Mind Grenades: Manifestos from the Future by John Plunkett and Louis Rossetto).

Kenneth FitzGerald, Fuel Full Pull Poll Pool Cool Cook Book (review of Pure Fuel by Fuel).

Bill Gubbins, Put My Head to Your Ray Gun: The Marvin S. Jarrett Story (review of Ray Gun—Out of Control by Marvin Scott Jarrett and Dean Kuipers).

Shawn Wolfe, Duty Now for the Future (review of Mind Grenades: Manifestos from the Future by John Plunkett and Louis Rossetto).

Rudy VanderLans, The Cutting Edge Trade (review of G1: New Dimensions in Graphic Design by Lewis Blackwell and Neville Brody).

Emigre type and product catalog (including Zeitguys and Big Cheese picture fonts by Eric Donelan and Bob Aufuldish, Remedy typeface by Frank Heine, Blockhead picture font & typeface and Thingbat picture font by John Hersey, FellaParts picture font by Edward Fella, and Whirligig and Hypnopaedia picture fonts by Zuzana Licko).



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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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