For almost twenty years, and over sixty issues, Emigre has been a sourcebook of ideas, fonts, images, work, products, and even music for an entire generation of designers. Now, Emigre has transitioned into a new format, a return-to-roots series of "pocketbooks," focusing on critical writing about the state of graphic design. Anyone interested in contemporary design will want to put a copy of Emigre in their pocket.
Kenneth FitzGerald proposes that the objective of design, to create a class of expert professional practitioners, can - and should - only lead to its demise as a specialist profession.
Lorraine Wild and Sam Potts respond, separately, to the publication of Rick Poynor's recent book "No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism."
Eric Heiman urges designers to "think wrong" and refocus their creative energies to solving non-commercial, more socially motivated problems.
Jeffery Keedy gives us a list of some of the most popular but dumb ideas in design.
Ben Hagon warns that without a significant change in the method by which we create work, Joe Client will, in time, do our graphic design work for us.
Kali Nikitas and Louise Sandhaus respond to the criticism levelled at their conversation "Visitations" which was published in Emigre #64.
Plus, the Readers Respond, featuring letters from around the world in response to past issues of Emigre magazine.
Dimensions: 9.5?x12? (inches) Pages: 256 Edition: Softcover Languages: English
