Emigre 19, Starting From Zero, 1991

Printed at Lompa Printing, Albany, CA.
Designer and editor: Rudy VanderLans.
Typeface design: Barry Deck (Template Gothic).

CONTENTS:
Rudy VanderLans, Introduction. PDF Download
Keith Robertson, Starting from Zero (essay).
Rudy VanderLans, 3 . . . Days at Cranbrook (interview with Katherine McCoy, P. Scott Makela, Edward Fella and Laurie Haycock Makela).
Laurie Haycock Makela, No Sign No Form No Word No God (design and essay).
Rudy VanderLans, interview with Henk Elenga of Hard Werken.
John Weber, Design Nirvana (essay with projects by Weber).
Rudy VanderLans, Emigre Music Manifesto? (essay).
Mail (including Gerard Unger).

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Rudy VanderLans
Emigre
Emigre was published between 1984 and 2005 in Berkeley, California, and pushed the boundaries of visual communication, graphic design and typography.

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