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 issue consists of a photographic/typographic experiment by Stefano Massei and Rudy VanderLans. It features a mixture of type and image combinations inspired by television and advertising language. Further, it consists of a mixture of type and image experimentations inspired by television and advertising language and imagery. The issue is centered on a single poem by Los Angeles poet Charles Bukowski. These layouts also feature the first time designer VanderLans uses a page-makeup program to create the entire page without additional paste-up, except for the photographs, which are still stripped into "windows" conventionally. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue was edited and designed by graduate students at Cranbrook Academy of Art during the early years of Katherine McCoy's tenure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme of this issue is advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to its editors, this issue is devoted to "collaboration, writing, intellectual property, entrepreneurialism, poetry, authorship, self-publication, reading and everything else that design is made of." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Documents the concept behind the alternative rock magazine, Ray Gun, through an interview with its editorial director, Neil Feineman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Reprints a story, "The Spiral" by Italo Calvino, in a highly experimental typographic layout designed by Andrea Futter. Indeed, the other pieces in this issue from students in the Design Program of the California Institute of Arts are also among the most highly experimental works in the run of Emigre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue according to Emigre "features an overview of the work of Sheffield - based The Designers Republic, and a lengthy interview with founder Ian Anderson. This is perhaps Emigre's most sought after issue. Includes a special 12 page insert (calendar) specially designed by TDR for this issue of Emigre." -- 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.