Ray Gun magazine/David Carson
Ray Gun produced over sixty issues from 1992 to 2000.
print magazine
Print is a bimonthly American magazine about visual culture and design and it was first published in 1940. Print views commercial, social and environmental design; the good, the bad and the ugly.
Pntri is a general interest magazine, written by cultural reporters and critics who look at design in its social, political and historical context. Print has a wide range of audience, from designers to art directors, illustrators and photographers, educators and students. Print has undergone a complete redesign in 2005.
emigre_layout
‘Featured in this issue is the work of graduate and undergraduate graphic design students at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Because we are always interested in what the future of graphic design might bring, every once in a while Emigre focuses on a particular design school whose work we feel might have an impact on the development of design.
This issue consists of actual school assignments whose mechanical parameters were slightly altered to fit the page size and printing restrictions of Emigre magazine.
The student projects featured include interpretations of critical writings in graphic design, both visually and verbally, as well as projects ranging from typeface designs to the design of the cover of Emigre magazine’.
Emigre 13 (1989)
It’s time for the Big Bens, wooden shoes, Eiffel Towers, lederhosen, cowboys and Indians, towers of Pisa, bowler hats, kangaroos, and exotic beaches to move over. For this issue, designers from around the world update their national symbols. Featuring work by Wolfgang Weingart, Rick Valicenti, Neville Brody, Steven R. Gilmore, John Weber, Malcolm Garrett, Jeffery Keedy, Mitsuhiro Miyazaki, Allen Hori, Philippe Apeloig, and many others.
Emigre Covers
The magazine has changed formats several times: it was first published quarterly in a large format and each page measured 285 mm x 425 mm, starting with issue 33 each page is about 8.5″ x 11″ , it changed into a multimedia format (a booklet where each page is 133 mm x 210 mm, plus a CD or DVD) starting with issue 60; and finally, starting with issue 65, the magazine became a book format, published twice a year, where each page measures 133 mm x 210 mm.
Emigre magazine
Emigre is a graphic design magazine published by Emigre Graphics in 1984-2005; It was published in California by Dutch-born Rudy Vanderlans who was the art director using fonts designed by his wife Zuzana Licko. Emigre was one of the few publications to use Macintosh computers and had a large influence on graphic designers. It had a variety of layouts, used guest designers and opinionated articles that had a effect on other design publications.
The magazine had a focus to people that migrated out from other countries, but often carries a connotation of politico-social self-exile. The first eight issues were concerned with boundaries, international culture, travel accounts and alienation. Also the first eight issues incorporated a dynamic aesthetic that caught the attention of designers and led to the next stage of the magazines revolution.
In the very first issue, the magazine explored design as a subject devoting issues in typography and graphic designers. Therefore Emigre became a blackboard of essays and writings on design. The magazine changed its format in 1995 and from its over-sized layout it went down to a more friendlier text book format. The magazine kept its character until 2001.
Emigre then took a 180 degrees turn with four re-formated issues in 2001 and 2002 that included one DVD and three CD’S featuring music.
The last six issues of Emigre where co-published by Princeton Architectural Press as small soft-cover books. The last issue titled The End was published in 2005. Overall the magazine had a complete series of 69 issues.
