Emigre Magazin wird eingestellt / Ich weine

schade. hast du nicht gefragt warum? vielleicht weil webbasierte diskussionen und diskurse schneller und prägnanter sind (z.b. designobserver)? schade.

Doch, gefragt habe ich, es kam aber leider kein Feedback bisher. I will let you know. Was ist designobserver?

>Was ist designobserver?

"SpeakUp for grown-ups" – Ellen Lupton
http://www.designobserver.com/

Ein seriöses Grafikdesignblog aus Amerika…

SpeakUp ist auch sehr gut, meine Meinung nach… vielleciht zu wenig Typo. Aber wenn du Emigre noch liest, dann kennst du SpeakUp bestimmt. http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/

danke dan, aber designobserver solltest du wirklich kennen lars. speakup ist sowieso pflicht. in einer der letzten emigre ausgaben gab es einen schönen artikel über und mit speakup, gründlicher lesen...

mea culpa, peter.
werde ich nachholen
:-) Lars

Armit Vit, der SpeakUp Gründer, wird beim Typo Berlin reden…

Interessant an deisgnobserver ist dass dieser Blog mitunter von Rick Poynor gegründet wurde, der auch bei EYE mitwirkt. Der kann schreiben!

Ergänzend zu meinem Posting "...der auch bei EYE mitwirkt":

Rick Poynor founded Eye magazine in London in 1990, edited it for seven years and is now its resident columnist. He is a regular columnist for Print magazine and he has written about design, media and visual culture for Blueprint, Frieze, Domus, I.D., Metropolis, Harvard Design Magazine, Adbusters, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and many other publications.

His books include More Dark Than Shark (1986), a study of Brian Eno's early songs, Typography Now: The Next Wave (1991), and Typographica (2001). He is the author of two collections of essays, Design Without Boundaries (1998) and Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World (2001). His latest book, No More Rules, is a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism.

Poynor studied the history of art at Manchester University and gained an MPhil in design history from the Royal College of Art, London. He is a former visiting professor at the RCA, and he lectures widely on design matters in Europe, the United States and Australia. He is guest curator of the exhibition "Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties" which will open at the Barbican Centre, London in September 2004.

Contact Information:
rpoynor [at] dircon.co.uk

Hier eine Antwort von Rudy V.

that´s sad. i loved your magazine! we bought almost all your typefaces and books. are you retiring?

NO, we're NOT retiring! We're just ending the magazine. Emigre, the company, and all its different activities, including Emigre Fonts, will continue as usual.

i would like to inform our readers why #69 will be the last one.

Well, everything must end sometime. After 21 years and 69 issues I thought it was enough.

But I'd rather you don't announce it yet. We'll be sending out official announcements shortly after Emigre #68 comes out, which is in a few weeks.

Emigre #69, the Final Issue, will come out in August

Regards,
Rudy

Frisch aufm Tisch....

Emigre #68 Now Available!

American Mutt Barks in the Yard

One of our goals in publishing a design magazine is to set
Emigre apart from the herd. We want to stay off the beaten
path, so to speak, and seek out what lies beyond the obvious.
We want to push the limits of design publishing even as we
work to survive. When we noticed that, in the last few years,
design publications had suddenly become oversweetened by
so-called "eye candy," we decided to challenge the imagination,
not just tickle the optic nerve, and focus on design writing.

Today, when it comes to design writing, we are not alone.
Blogs are the new order, and the order is growing. Design
blogs have their virtues, of course, but blogging about design
appears to be habit-forming and has become an end in itself,
with the very rapid-fire, off-the-cuff nature of blogging
favoring the short, the sweet, the quick, and the now. This
phenomenon triggered in us a reflexive need to once again play
the role of contrarian. We wanted to do something unique,
something no other design magazine had ever done, something
that, whatever it turned out to be, would speak to designers
in a way that a blog could not. The answer came to us in the
form of "American Mutt Barks in the Yard" by David Barringer.
It is the longest "Dear Emigre" letter we have ever received.
The author describes it as "ambitious and reckless and
impassioned," but that's putting it mildly. At 34,940 words,
it fills the entire 128-page issue of Emigre #68. The essay
started as a simple reply to issues #65 and #66, but exploded
into an indepth, critical analysis of design and advertising
that only traditional book publishing can accommodate properly.

While we're aware of the paradox (after all, there's nothing
unique about publishing a traditional book), we have no doubt
that David Barringer's essay dares to tread where few have
tread before. "I offer it for publication in Emigre," wrote
Barringer. "I can imagine it literally nowhere else."

Neither can we.

Co-published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Price: $12 plus shipping.

To order go to:
http://www.emigre.com/EMag.php?issue=current