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Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005)

61 points by msephton 2y ago

zeruch 2y ago
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.
synack 2y ago
I saw a nice exhibition of Emigre at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam just last month. Worth a look if you're into typography.
spacecadet 2y ago
Still got the last edition of the Emigre set on a USB stick. Dead History baby.
rob74 2y ago
Cool, have to take another look at those archived issues someday... 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...
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- msephton 2y ago
  Serious question, when did pictograms become emoji? I'm author of the Emigre blog post, and I recently discovered the earliest digital emoji. So I'm interested in exploring the grey area of pictograms/emoji.
sleepybrett 2y ago
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).
- Finnucane 2y ago
  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.
lainga 2y ago
"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?
- mattupstate 2y ago
  Vignelli was a staunch modernist. Emigre is a definitive post-modern studio. Fundamentally different to someone such as him.
doctornoble 2y ago
Exocet had to be the most popular font of the mid-90s for anything vaguely occult/religious/horror/sci-fi/fantasy

61 points by msephton 2y ago

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.

synack 2y ago

I saw a nice exhibition of Emigre at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam just last month. Worth a look if you're into typography.

spacecadet 2y ago

Still got the last edition of the Emigre set on a USB stick. Dead History baby.

rob74 2y ago

Cool, have to take another look at those archived issues someday... 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...

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msephton 2y ago
Serious question, when did pictograms become emoji? I'm author of the Emigre blog post, and I recently discovered the earliest digital emoji. So I'm interested in exploring the grey area of pictograms/emoji.

sleepybrett 2y ago

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).

Finnucane 2y ago
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.

lainga 2y ago

"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?

mattupstate 2y ago
Vignelli was a staunch modernist. Emigre is a definitive post-modern studio. Fundamentally different to someone such as him.

doctornoble 2y ago

Exocet had to be the most popular font of the mid-90s for anything vaguely occult/religious/horror/sci-fi/fantasy