Emigre Magazine

I remember first hearing about Emigre, both the magazine and type foundry, in my Typography 1 class in the Spring of 2003. Little did I know at the time what a huge impact the magazine would have on me and my thoughts on graphic design.

It comes as no surprise how happy I was to read that Emigre would be posting select interviews and essays from past issues as back issues sell out, even more that the content from Emigre #30 was available. Over the past few months I have been interested in the “legibility wars” debate and design in the 90s, how technology and access to that technology changed the face of design. I am still formulating my opinion on this so I digress from making a statement now.

As exciting as it is to see Emigre posting the content from their magazine I am let down that it is not being shown in the form it was first presented. As shown here instead of here. Hopefully, Emigre will make PDF editions of their magazine available for a small fee or allow one to browse more images of the magazine that had a timeless impact on the graphic design community.

Further reading

Cult Of The Ugly by Steven Heller

Experimental Typography Whatever That Means by Peter Biľak

Typography Now Two: Implosion by Rick Poynor

A short update

As I said in my previous post I have been quite busy these last few weeks and it doesn’t look like it is going to let up anytime soon. Please be patient. I have a few topics I would like to cover so once I am over this posting dry spell I will have much to write.

I changed my theme to something a little more straight forward, I did like the intensions of the Hemingway theme but it needs to be updated and I would rather not tweak the CSS now or write my own. Enjoy the new look. The font is Keedy from Emigre which can be purchased here. (More on Emigre in a later post.)

My current playlist:

Russell Haswell Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000
An amazing record. The clerk at AKA summed it up best, “brutal record man”.

Willits + Sakamoto Ocean Fire
This is what I was expecting last year’s Fennesz + Sakamoto record to sound like. Thick, pastoral, ambient music.

Sawako Madoromi
Beautiful.

My current reads:

Dot Dot Dot 15

Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now Fred Smeijers [Thanks T3]

The Dirt Motley Crue. [Thanks Nay]

Paul Rand

I have been caught up with things at work and wedding planning so I have been unable to post.

Here is a little something to hold you over till dinner, a Paul Rand Tribute “created for his posthumous induction to the One Club Hall of Fame in 2007.”

Thank you Veer for the link.