Looking at an issue of Emigre
After the lecture on emigre I decided to see what its all about, I have never actually heard of this magazine and I now know so much background information but I hadn’t actually seen one, so I decided to look online this is the one I picked. Not for any reason it was just randomly o see if what I got from the lecture was shown in the magazines...
Emigre 40 The Info Perplex (1996)
Just looking at the cover the magazine is very modernist, shown by the grid idea and the simplistic approach to even the inside pages. Within the inside pages is where you can really see the modernist design and the typography influence, most of the page is writing but the text is positioned in a way to make the page look aesthetically pleasing, its all done in the way we were told, structured.
Thinking about the idea that emigre really started when the emergence of apple macs started, its shown how hard it would have been by hand, due to the typography style and the way this would have been if the only option was letteraset. Just in this issue you can see the playful ness of the layouts, text structures and type ad I see why it would be hard to pin a house style down after looking at all the different covers not to even mention the insides they were al totally different styles but all within the modernist ideals.
