EMIGRE 14
Heritage
Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko
Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko: EMIGRE 14 [Heritage]. Berkeley, CA: Emigre, 1990. Original edition. Thick saddle stitched wrappers. [60] pp. Elaborate graphic design throughout. Lightly handled, but a nearly fine copy of this journal whose size and contents inevitably invited abuse.
11.25 x 16.75 saddle stitched magazine exploring the nature of heritage in contemporary Graphic Drsign, circa 1990. After Zurich designer Richard Feurer met Rudy VanderLans in California, Emigre was invited to visit Zurich to discuss graphic design, culture and tradition as seen through the eyes of a group of young Swiss graphic designers, including Peter Bader, Richard Feurer, Polly Bertram and Daniel Volkart. Also interviewed were notables Wolfgang Weingart, Hans-Rudi Lutz, April Greiman, and Hamish Muir of 8vo.
The issue was designed using Zuzana Licko's Triplex, a "friendlier" version of Helvetica and, as an homage to Jan Tschichold, a distinct center axis approach was utilized throughout the editorial part of the issue.
Introduction by Wolfgang Weingart. Includes a special 24-page insert written, designed and produced in Zurich, Switzerland by Richard Feurer, Peter Bäder, Polly Bertram & Daniel Volkart, Roland Fishbacher, Margit Kastl-Lustenberger and Daniel Zehntner.
Contents
- Introduction: Wolfgang Weingart
- Conversation: Richard Feurer
- Conversation: Hans-Rudolf Lutz
- Conversation: Peter Bäder
- Conversation: Polly Bertram & Daniel Volkart
- Conversation: Hamish Muir of 8vo
- Conversation: Wolfgang Weingart
- Conversation: April Greiman
- Special 24-page insert written, designed and produced in Zurich, Switzerland by Richard Feurer, Peter Bäder, Polly Bertram & Daniel Volkart, Roland Fishbacher, Margit Kastl-Lustenberger and Daniel Zehntner.
From Emigre's website: "Emigre, Inc. is a digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design related software and printed materials based in Northern California.
Founded in 1984, coinciding with the birth of the Macintosh, Emigre was one of the first independent type foundries to establish itself centered on personal computer technology. Emigre holds exclusive license to over 300 original typeface designs created by a roster of contemporary designers. Emigre's full line of typefaces, ornaments and illustrations is available in Type 1 PostScript and TrueType for both the Macintosh and PC.
Emigre is also the publisher of the critically acclaimed design journal Emigre magazine which was published between 1984 and 2005."
Since the 1970s Wolfgang Weingart has exerted a decisive influence on the international development of typography. In the late 1960s he instilled creativity and a desire for experimentation into the ossified Swiss typographical industry and reflected this renewal in his own work. Countless designers have been inspired by his teaching at the Basle School of Design and by his lectures.
From the website for Design is History: “Weingart was most influential as a teacher and a design philosopher. He began teaching at the Basel School of Design, where he was appointed an instructor of typography by Armin Hofman in 1963. He also taught for the Yale University Summer Design Program in Brissago. Throughout his entire career he spent time traveling and lecturing throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia.
He taught a new approach to typography that influenced the development of New Wave, Deconstruction and much of graphic design in the 1990s. While he would contest that what he taught was also Swiss Typography, since it developed naturally out of Switzerland, the style of typography that came from his students led to a new generation of designers that approached most design in an entirely different manner than traditional Swiss typography.”