This catalogue depicts the typefaces designed with the Apple computers by Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans and the origins of Emigre Magazine they founded in 1984. For these achievements, Licko and Vanderlans received the fifth Charles Nypels Award, given every two years to an individual or institution that has made innovations in the area of typography in the briadest sense. This catalogue published to commemorate the award was edited by Gor Rosbeek and Jean Rosbeek. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This volume presents a ten year retrospective of Emigre Magazine and includes every cover issued, a catalogue of over 80 Emigre typefaces, the magazines most striking editorial layouts, and commentary from Vanderbilt and Licks. Emigre has consistently broken the rules of graphic design and publishing and has proven to be both controversial and influential in the field.Since there was no budget to produce Emigre and the Macintosh computer had not yet been invented, the first issues were created with typings and photocopied paste-ups.Emigre 21 was produced almost entirely by undergraduate and graduate students at California Institute for the Arts at Valencia. The issue consisted of actual school assignments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue features the entire collection of Emigre typefaces to 2002. The quotes presented by known typographic designers and scholars are from articles and interviews published in Emigre magazine issues 12 through 53. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue contains illustrated articles on the genesis of the letter 'L,' film posters, and "Love Letters." Allan Haley contributed a biography entitled, "William Caxton: The Modest Translator." Marion Muller's essay "Meant to Be Seen and Not Heard" about concrete and shaped poetry dealt with an exhibition of Arion Press' Shaped Poetry portfolio at MJS Books & Graphics in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.