Emigre’s back

For reasons to be revealed soon, I’ve been looking over a wide breadth of American independent magazines lately, and one thing is clear: the graphic design world is poorer for the death of Emigre a few years ago.

Except it’s back! Kind of. Using 25 years since issue 1 as a flimsy excuse to flex his DTP muscles again, Rudy VanderLans has come up with a weighty book-length tome published with Gingko Press to create Number 70: The One Filled With Content From All The Others, to be published next month. How much is new and how much rehash has yet to be determined – it seems we mostly get footnotes and a mini “letters to the editor” insert at the end in lieu of much completely new content. Still – even if it’s nothing more than a tribute and a compilation, it’ll still be an essential purchase for those of us without a complete set of back issues.

More info and a mailing list for launch news here, images and other publisher info here.