EMIGRE 25
Made in Holland
Vincent van Baar, Gerard Forde and Armand Mevis
[Guest Editors]
Vincent van Baar, Gerard Forde and Armand Mevis [Guest Editors]: EMIGRE 25 [Made in Holland]. Berkeley, CA: Emigre, 1993. Original edition [6,500 copies]. Slim quarto. Thick saddle stitched wrappers. [38] pp. Multiple paper stocks. 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 Design, circa 1993. Printed at Cal Central, Sacramento, CA. Art Direction by Vincent van Baar and Armand Mevis and Design by Vincent van Baar, Anne Burdick, Linda van Deursen and Armand Mevis.
Contents
- Berry van Gerwen, Design Vibrator (photograph with text)
- Vincent van Baar, Gerard Forde and Armand Mevis, Letter from the Editors
- Gerrit Achterberg, Ichthyology (poem and image chosen by Mart. Warmerdam)
- Rick Vermeulen, Bookery (review of Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs)
- Michiel Uilen, Super D, The Midnight Message (essay)
- Harmine Louwé, (various advertisements throughout issue)
- Ton van Bragt, Science (essay and illustration)
- Gerard Forde, Less is More More or Less (essay)
- Ko Sliggers, Kookery (text and photograph)
- Gerard Forde, interview with Armand Mevis
- Berry van Gerwen, Interiors (illustration)
- Vincent van Baar et al., Inquisition, questions by fax for Irma Boom
- Vincent van Baar, Centerfold: Gert Dumbar (photograph: Lex van Pieterson, text: Anne Burdick)
- Gerard Forde, interview with Mart. Warmerdam
- Roelof Mulder, (portfolio of work)
- Linda van Deursen, Catalogue (models wearing invitation cards, photographs: Jodokus Driessen)
- Gerard Forde, interview with Lex Reitsma
- Roelof Mulder and Karel Martens, New Release (typeface made of faces)
- Joseph Plateau, (portfolio of work)
- Joseph Plateau, Film (film stills)
- Erik van Blokland, Travel (essay)
- Tula Mond, Society (photographs of awards opening)
- Biographies
- Back cover: Competitors! Colleagues? (extracts from interviews)
From Emigre's website: “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.
“Complete sets of Emigre magazine are in the permanent collections of: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Design Museum in London, The Denver Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, The Museum fur Gestaltung in Zurich; and in 2011, five digital typefaces from the Emigre Type Library were acquired by MoMA New York for their permanent design and architecture collection.“