Emigre 51, First Things First, 1999

Printed at American Web, Denver, CO.
Art director and editor: Rudy VanderLans.
Emigre Fonts: Zuzana Licko.

CONTENTS:
Jonathan Barnbrook et al., First Things First Manifesto 2000 (on front cover).
Rick Poynor, First Things First Revisited (essay).
Matt Owens, Deep End (visual essay).
Andreas Lauhoff, Speech-recognizing letterforms (visual essay).
Katherine McCoy, Visceral/Virtual (essay on the late P. Scott Makela).
Philip Meggs, Dead History (essay).
Lewis Blackwell, Addictions/Meditations (essay on P. Scott Makela).
Emigre Product Catalog
Stephen Farrell and Ji-won Son, Inhabiting Forms: Visible Citizens (visual essay, with texts by Steve Tomasula and Italo Calvino).
Elliott Earls, (portrait of Howard Roark).
Rudy VanderLans, A Topography of the California High Desert (photographs, accompanied by the poem “81”Poop Hatch by Don van Vliet).

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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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