Published by Emigre

Hard Sleeper is the concluding part in the Dreaming Trilogy. Conceived and produced by Peter Maybury, this release comprises a 13 track CD and a 72 page book. Described by Maybury as "the detritus of pop," tentative shapes and melodies are pieced together through fragments of dislocated sounds. Drums, piano, analog synthesizers and guitars create an aural backdrop to the pages of the book, allowing music and images to travel a parallel journey through dreamy landscapes drifting in and out of focus - as if memories or thoughts that come to you while traveling, passing from waking to sleeping and other states of semi-consciousness. Maybury's work for CODE magazine, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, and the French Film Festival were featured in issue 45 of Emigre magazine.

Début 13 track album accompanied by 72pg. book.

Emigre
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This article is about the Emigre type foundry. For the French term describing those who have migrated to another country, see émigré.
Emigre, also known as Emigre Graphics, is a digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design centered information based in Berkeley, California, that was founded in 1984 by husband-and-wife team Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko.[1] The type foundry also published Emigre magazine between 1984 and 2005. Note that unlike the word émigré, Emigre is officially spelled without accents.

History

Emigre was founded in 1984 as an independent foundry, developing typefaces without an association to a typesetting equipment manufacturer. Coinciding with the advent of the Macintosh computer, Emigre took advantage of the new medium to design digital typefaces, as such they did not require the manufacturing infrastructure of a traditional type foundry. Licko began designing fonts that, rather than trying to imitate letterpress technology, capitalized on the idiosyncrasies of bitmap design and dot matrix printing, and later, vector-based design. The company is credited with being the first type foundry to design original fonts made on and for a computer.
Through a good part of the late 1980s and most of the 1990s, some of the most cutting-edge typefaces were developed or released by Emigre. Its magazine, in the meantime, provided an outlet showcasing the potential of its typeface designs, and was well known for its graphical experimentation, criticism and essays on contemporary design.
Emigre was often criticized for rejecting standard design rules. Designer Massimo Vignelli was highly critical against Emigre and viewed their designs as a direct threat to Modernist ideals. Vignelli called Emigre a "typographic garbage factory," and to him, their work represented "the degradation of culture."
Despite denunciation from traditionalists in the realm of design, Emigre became influential in the field. "People read best what they read most," was a manifesto that VanderLans and Licko held to when facing critics. Citing that what is deemed readable is only so because of the prevalence of a particular font.
Eventually, Vignelli, even after strongly criticizing the work of Emigre, directly promoted Licko's font Filosofia, to which Licko responded, "Massimo's willingness to collaborate on our announcement reflects Emigre's ability to bridge different approaches."

Books

Emigre has published a number of books related to graphic design.
Departures: Five Milestone Font Families by Emigre - "This book celebrates the acquisition of five Emigre typeface families by The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2011."
Supermarket - "Photographic record of six years of road trips to and through the Mojave desert."
Pages From an Imaginary Book - "A book of desert landscapes utilizing low budget reproduction techniques."
Bagdad, Californie - "A book of photographs about the now vanished town of Bagdad, California."
Emigre (Exhibition Catalog) - "Catalog to commemorate an exhibition about the work of Emigre at the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands."
Emigre Fonts Type Specimens Volume I - "Limited edition, case bound book containing 12 original Emigre Fonts type specimens."
Emigre No.70: The Look Back Issue - "A 512-page selection of reprints that traces Emigre's development from its early bitmap design days in the mid 1980s through to the experimental layouts that defined the so-called."
Palm Desert - "Part 1 of a trilogy of photo books about Southern California inspired by the music of Van Dyke Parks. Includes music CD."
Cucamonga - "Part 2 of a trilogy of photo books about Southern California inspired by the music of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. Includes music CD."
Joshua Tree- "Part 3 of a trilogy of photo books about Southern California inspired by the music of Gram Parsons. Includes music CD."
Hard Sleeper (Dreaming Out Loudest) - "Thirteen track CD plus 72 page book presented in custom made box."

Typefaces

Emigre not only designed type but also licensed over 300 original typefaces by many different designers. The company's type library features fonts by Mark Andresen, Bob Aufuldish, Jonathan Barnbrook, Rodrigo Cavazos, Barry Deck, Eric Donelan, John Downer, Elliott Peter Earls, Edward Fella, Sibylle Hagmann, Frank Heine, John Hersey, Jeffery Keedy, Zuzana Licko, P. Scott Makela, Conor Mangat, Nancy Mazzei, Brian Kelly, Miles Newlyn, Claudio Piccinini, Just van Rossum, Christian Schwartz and Rudy VanderLans. [13] See also Emigre typefaces library and the fonts section of Emigre's website.
Cholla Slab
Dalliance
Dead History
Democratica
Exocet
Filosofia (based on Bodoni)
Journal
Matrix
Modula
Mrs Eaves (based on Baskerville)
Priori
Template Gothic
Vista Sans