List of Emigre magazine issues

Following is a list of Emigre magazines. The complete series of 69 issues was published from 1984 to 2005.

The resources for this list were individual issues of Emigre Magazine and Emigre’s website. [1] Bullets in each entry highlight themes and selected content.

Personnel not listed below include copy editor Alice Polesky, font designer Zuzana Licko and manager Tim Starbuck.

For the full Wikipedia article on Emigre magazine, see Emigre magazine.

List

Emigre 1: The Magazine That Ignores Boundaries

• 1984. [2]

Emigre 2: The Magazine That Ignores Boundaries

• 1985. [3]

Emigre 3: The Magazine That Ignores Boundaries

• 1985. [4]

Emigre 4: The Magazine That Ignores Boundaries

• 1986. [5]

Emigre 5: Edizione Italo-Francese

• 1986. [6]

Emigre 6: International Culture

• 1986. [7]

Emigre 7: Various Travel Accounts

• 1987. [8]
• Created by Robert Kopecky, Judy Anderson, Rudy VanderLans, Susan King, Tom Bonauro, Stefano Massei. Art Direction by Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre Graphics.
• Various designers/artists each produced a "graphic documentation of personal travel experiences."
• Around the World with Shithead and Winky, by Robert Kopecky.
• Tokyo Press Check / Making Face, by Judy Anderson in collaboration with Ginny Hoyle.
• America Is My Country But Paris Is My Hometown—Gertrude Stein, by Susan E. King.
• The Travel Journals of Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger.
• Views of Travel, by Tom Bonauro.

Emigre 8: Alienation

• 1987. [9]
• The issue contains the poem "Los Angeles" by Charles Bukowski as a "photographic/typographic experiment" by Stefano Massei and Rudy VanderLans.

Emigre 9: 4AD

• 1988. [10]
• Features the art of the 4AD music label and an interview with designer Vaughan Oliver and 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell.

Emigre 10: Cranbrook

• 1988. [11]
• This issue was edited, designed and produced by graduate students of the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Emigre 11: Ambition/Fear

• 1989. [12]
• This issue focuses on the effect of the Apple Macintosh on graphic design.
• Ambition/Fear, by Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans. Full text online. [13]
• Features interviews with Philippe Apeloig, John Webser, Henk Elenga, Takenobu Igarashi, Gerard Hadders, Rick Valicenti, Max Kisman, Clement Mok, Erik Spiekermann, Jeffery Keedy, Glenn Suokko, April Greiman, Malcolm Garrett, Aad v. Dommelen, Matthew Carter.

Emigre 12: Press Time!

• 1989. [14]

Emigre 13: Redesigning Stereotypes

• 1989. [15]

Emigre 14: Heritage

• 1990. [16]

Emigre 15: Do You Read Me?

• 1990. [17]
• Design and Production: Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre Graphics.
• Focuses on type and type designers. Features Peter Mertens, Max Kisman, Zuzana Licko, John Downer, Jeffery Keedy, Karrie Jacobs, Barry Deck, Ellen Lupton & J. Abbott Miller, Johnny D.

Emigre 16: Sound Design

• 1990. [18]
• Designer/Editor: Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre Graphics.
• Features work of Bruce Licher and James Towning.
• Cover was printed at Independent Project Press by Bruce Licher on a Vandercook letterpress.
• Includes Music! pull-out poster.

Emigre 17: Wise Guys

• 1991. [19]
• Editor/Designer: Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre Graphics.
• Half of the magazine is devoted to designer Piet Schreuders.
• Half of the magazine is devoted to artist/designer Ed Fella.

Emigre 18: Type-Site

• 1991. [20]

Emigre 19: Starting From Zero

• 1991. [21]
• Features discussions between Rudy VanderLans and faculty and students at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Emigre 20: Expatriates

• 1991. [22]
• Features interviews with Robert Nakata and Allen Hori.

Emigre 21: New Faces

• 1992. [23]
• Edited by Jeffery Keedy.

Emigre 22: Teach

• 1992. [24]
• Feature article on Nick Bell.

Emigre 23: Culprits

• 1992. [25]

Emigre 24: Neomania

• 1992. [26]

Emigre 25: Made in Holland

• 1993. [27]

Emigre 26: All Fired Up

• 1993. [28]

Emigre 27: David Carson

• 1993. [29]
• Feature article on David Carson.

Emigre 28: Broadcast

• 1993. [30]
• Written, designed and produced by Gail Swanlund.

Emigre 29: The Designers Republic

• 1994. [31]
• Issue devoted to design group The Designers Republic.

Emigre 30: Fallout

• 1994. [32]
• Interview with Steven Heller regarding the fallout of his article The Cult of the Ugly published in Eye magazine (Eye No. 9, Vol. 3, Summer 1993). [33]

Emigre 31: Raising Voices

• 1994. [34]

Emigre 32: Essays, Texts and Other Writings about Graphic Design

• 1994. [35]
• In and Around: Cultures of Design and the Design of Cultures, Part I, by Andrew Blauvelt. Full text online. [36]
• Discovery by Design, by Zuzana Licko. Full text online. [37]

Emigre 33: No Small Issue

• 1995. [38]
• The title of the issue is wordplay: this is the first of the smaller, revised format reduced from 11¼ x 14¾ to 8¼ x 11¼".
• In and Around: Cultures of Design and the Design of Cultures, Part II, by Andrew Blauvelt. Full text online. [39]

Emigre 34: The Rebirth of Design

• 1995. [40]
• Radical Commodities, by Rudy VanderLans. Full text online. [41]

Emigre 35: Mouthpiece

• Summer 1995. [42]
• Guest-edited by Anne Burdick.
• Essays on the relationship between writing and design.

Emigre 36: Mouthpiece 2

• Fall 1995. [43]
• Guest-edited by Anne Burdick.
• Essays on the relationship between writing and design.

Emigre 37: Joint Venture

• 1996. [44]

Emigre 38: The Authentic Issue

• 1996. [45]
• Copping an Attitude, by Rudy VanderLans. Full text online. [46]
• This was the first Emigre issue to extensively use Zuzana Licko's new Mrs Eaves font.

Emigre 39: The Next Big Thing

• 1996. [47]
• Issue devoted to the effect of electronic publishing and the Internet.

Emigre 40: The Info Perplex

• 1996. Edited by Andrew Blauvelt. [48]

Emigre 41: The Magazine Issue

• 1997. [49]

Emigre 42: The Mercantile Issue

• 1997. [50]

Emigre 43: Designers are People Too

• 1997. [51]

Emigre 44: Design As Content

• Fall 1997. [52]
• Designer/Editor: Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre, Inc.
• Features five reviews of four recently published books:
• Hype Or Hope, by Diane Gromola on the book Mind Grenades: Manifestos from the Future.
• Fuel Full Pull Poll Pool Cool Cook Book, by Kenneth FitzGerald on the book Pure Fuel on the work of Fuel.
• Put My Head to Your Ray Gun: The Marvin S. Jarrett Story, by Bill Gubbins on the book Ray Gun: Out of Control on Ray Gun magazine.
• Duty Now for the Future, by Shawn Wolfe on the book Mind Grenades: Manifestos from the Future.
• The Cutting Edge Trade, by Rudy VanderLans on the book G1: New Dimensions in Graphic Design.

Emigre 45: Untitled

• Winter 1998. [53]
• Designer/Editor: Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre, Inc.
• An Interview with Peter Maybury, features images of Maybury's experimental book art.
• Jack W. Stauffacher, Printer &c., by Chuck Byrne on Stauffacher's letterpress designs.
• Head to Hand: Reading the Book Designs of Lorraine Wild, by Andrew Blauvelt.

Emigre 46: Fanzines and the Culture of DIY

• Spring 1998. [54]
• Designer/Editor: Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre, Inc.
• Variety of articles by editor and various authors on fanzines, including Heckler.

Emigre 47: Relocating Design

• Summer 1998. Designer/Editor: Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre, Inc. [55]
• Graphic Design in the Postmodern Era, by Jeffery Keedy. Full text online. [56]
• Chance (on Bailey's first experiences with Werkplaats Typografie and Paul Elliman), by Stuart Bailey.

Emigre 48: Untitled II

• Fall 1998. [57]
• Designer/Editor: Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre, Inc.
• Alternative Modernism, an article on the redesign of Mother Jones magazine by Rhonda Rubenstein.
• Skilling Saws and Absorbent Catalogs, by Kenneth FitzGerald. Full text online. [58]
• The Incubation of a Workshop (on the Werkplaats Typografie), by Stuart Bailey.

Emigre 49: The Everything Is For Sale Issue

• Winter 1999. Designer and Editor: Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre, Inc. [59]
• Articles by critics of consumer culture including Thomas Frank of The Baffler, Carrie McLaren of Stay Free! and staff of Adbusters.

Emigre 50: Think Ink

Emigre 51: First Things First

• First Things First Revisited, by Rick Poynor. Full text online. [60]
• First Things First Manifesto 2000, signed by Jonathan Barnbrook, Nick Bell, Andrew Blauvelt, Hans Bockting, Irma Boom, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Max Bruinsma, Sian Cook, Linda van Deursen, Chris Dixon, William Drenttel, Gert Dumbar, Simon Esterson, Vince Frost, Ken Garland, Milton Glaser, Jessica Helfand, Steven Heller, Andrew Howard, Tibor Kalman, Jeffery Keedy, Zuzana Licko, Ellen Lupton, Katherine McCoy, Armand Mevis, J. Abbott Miller, Rick Poynor, Lucienne Roberts, Erik Spiekermann, Jan van Toorn, Teal Triggs, Rudy VanderLans, Bob Wilkinson. Full text online. [61]

Emigre 52: The Magazine You Love to Hate

Emigre 53: Graphic Design Incl.

• Saving Advertising, by Jelly Helm. Full text online. [62]

Emigre 54: The Last Wave

Emigre 55: The Leisure Time Issue

Emigre 56: The Emigre Legacy: 16 Years of Graphic Design Production

• The Emigre Legacy, by Rudy VanderLans. Full text online. [63]

Emigre 57: Lost Formats Preservation Society

Emigre 58: Everyone is a Designer: Manifest for the Design Economy

• Spring 2001. Publisher: Rudy VanderLans. Guest designer and art director: Mieke Gerritzen. Copyright Emigre, Inc. [64]
• Design blurbs incorporated into colorful compositions of guest art director Mieke Gerritzen.

Emigre 59: Economy of Means

• Summer 2001. [65]
• Guest designers: Fake I.D. (Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees). [66] Text typography: Rudy VanderLans. Copyright Emigre, Inc.
• Sustainable Consumerism, by Chris Riley. Full text online. [67]

Emigre 60: Honey Barbara: I-10 & W. AVE.

• 2001. [68]
• Features compact disc by Texan band Honey Barbara.

Emigre 61: The Grassy Knoll: Happily Ever After

• 2002. Editor & Designer: Rudy VanderLans. [69]
• Features compact disc by alternative band The Grassy Knoll.

Emigre 62: Catfish

• 2002. [70]
• Includes DVD.

Emigre 63: Scenic: The Acid Gospel Experience

• Summer 2002. [71]
• Features compact disc by Bruce Licher band Scenic.

Emigre 64: Rant

• 2003. [72]
• Co-published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Emigre 65: If We're Standing on the Shoulders of Giants...

• 2003. [73]
• Co-published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Emigre 66: Nudging Graphic Design

• 2004. [74]
• Co-published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Emigre 67: Graphic design vs. style, globalism, criticism, science, authenticity, and humanism

• 2004. [75]
• Co-published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Emigre 68: American Mutt Barks in the Yard

• 2005. [76]
• Co-published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Emigre 69: The End

• 2005. [77]
• Co-published by Princeton Architectural Press.

See also

• List of Baseline magazine issues
• List of Eye magazine issues