Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005)(blog.gingerbeardman.com)
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Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005)
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I saw a nice exhibition of Emigre at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam just last month. Worth a look if you're into typography.
I still have a few issues in storage, and several of the albums released under their design and publishing arm (e.g. Grassy Knoll)
Great stuff.
Great stuff.
"Massimo Vignelli famously said at a meeting: Emigre is the worst thing that ever happened to this country. It's unbelievable the damage they have done. A total disaster. [Laughter] You laugh, but you should cry."
What in Emigre's fonts could have been odious to him?
What in Emigre's fonts could have been odious to him?
Vignelli was a staunch modernist. Emigre is a definitive post-modern studio. Fundamentally different to someone such as him.
I've still got a few issues somewhere in storage, the DR one for sure but also a few random issues. I may be stuck in the 90s/00s but I still love many of the emigre typefaces (matrix, mrs. eaves, filosofia, soda, and all those early bitmap typefaces).
I have a vague memory that fonts came on a floppy in a cardboard carrier that was attached to the magazine? Was that right or am I conflating it with something else? It's been . . . a long time.
Still got the last edition of the Emigre set on a USB stick. Dead History baby.
Exocet had to be the most popular font of the mid-90s for anything vaguely occult/religious/horror/sci-fi/fantasy
However, "emoji-like pictograms"? No, just pictograms! Ok, some of those later got turned into emojis, but they were widely used as pictograms (maybe not so much in the US, but definitely in Europe) for decades before that...