EMIGRE 6 [International Culture]. Berkeley, CA: Emigre, 1986. Original edition [3,000 copies]. Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko.

EMIGRE 6
International Culture

Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko

Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko: EMIGRE 6 [International Culture]. Berkeley, CA: Emigre, 1986. Original edition [3,000 copies]. Four sections housed in a plain corrogated cardboard box with Publishers price stamp and sticker. [3] slim quartos: PART 1: 16 pp; PART 2: 32 pp, PART 3: 16 pp. [3] Saddle stitched wrappers. [16 / 32 / 16] pp. Multiple paper stocks. Elaborate graphic design throughout. PART 4 - Letterpress printed fan in pristine condition.  Part 2 lower corner edge lightly ruffled. Five pieces of period Emigre sales material laid in. Publishers box with sticker neatly cut and preserved. A lightly handled complete copy of this elaborate production: a nearly fine copy of this journal whose size and contents inevitably invited abuse.

11.125 x 16.75 saddle stitched magazine exploring the nature of heritage in contemporary Graphic Design, circa 1986. Printed at Lompa Printing, Albany, CA, and Alonzo Printing, South San Francisco, CA. Publisher and art director: Rudy VanderLans. Digital type design and typesetting: Zuzana Licko.

Contents

PART 1

• • Salman Rushdie: The Location of Brazil (quote)
  • Jeffrey Browning: Introduction
  • Stefano Massei: Home Away from Home (photographs)
  • Didier Crémieux and Scott Williams: The History of the World (painting, interview: VanderLans)
  • Andrea Goldstein: Torso de Mulher (photographs)
  • Karen Douglas: Cross Channel Ferry, God Made me Perfect (paintings)

PART 2

• • John Hersey: Bob Hope (digital portrait)
  • Kees Broos: But It’s So Ugly . . . (essay on Hard Werken)
  • Rudy VanderLans: Tuxedomoon’s Principle (interview with Peter Principle)
  • Stanley Banos: Life with Bob (short story, illustration by Ward Schumaker)
  • Kyle Thayer: interview with Gavin Flint
  • John Fante: Thy Beauty is to Me (short story)
  • Peter Claessens: The China of the Mind (interview with Winston Tong)
  • William Cone: Gertrude Stein (portrait painting)
  • Alice Polesky, (commentary)

PART 3

• • Rigo, Reyvision (visual project)

PART 4

• Susan E. King, Minor Religion (letterpress printed fan). Susan E. King is an artist and writer from Kentucky who studied art at the University of Kentucky, and graduated with a degree in Ceramics. She worked for potter Bryon Temple in Lambertville, New Jersey  and then earned a graduate degree from New Mexico State University. Susan and Christina Kruse, another artist and graduate student, taught one of the first Women & Art courses in the U.S. in 1973 as part of their graduate studies. They invited Judy Chicago to lecture at their school, and the following year joined her in Los Angeles at the experimental Feminist Studio Workshop. They both helped create the Woman's Building, a public center for women's culture, modeled after the 1893 Woman's Buidling at the Chicago World's Fair. Susan made her first artist's book in 1975 at the Women's Graphic Center at the Woman's Building, eventually becoming the studio director. She set up a studio in West Los Angeles, and made letterpress and offset artist's books there and at art centers around the US. Currently she divides her time between Kentucky and California.

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.“