Cool, have to take another look at those archived issues someday...
However, "emoji-like pictograms"? No, just pictograms! Ok, some of those later got turned into emojis, but they were widely used as pictograms (maybe not so much in the US, but definitely in Europe) for decades before that...
Serious question, when did pictograms become emoji? I'm author of the Emigre blog post, and I recently discovered the earliest digital emoji. So I'm interested in exploring the grey area of pictograms/emoji.
"Massimo Vignelli famously said at a meeting: Emigre is the worst thing that ever happened to this country. It's unbelievable the damage they have done. A total disaster. [Laughter] You laugh, but you should cry."
What in Emigre's fonts could have been odious to him?
I've still got a few issues somewhere in storage, the DR one for sure but also a few random issues. I may be stuck in the 90s/00s but I still love many of the emigre typefaces (matrix, mrs. eaves, filosofia, soda, and all those early bitmap typefaces).
I have a vague memory that fonts came on a floppy in a cardboard carrier that was attached to the magazine? Was that right or am I conflating it with something else? It's been . . . a long time.
However, "emoji-like pictograms"? No, just pictograms! Ok, some of those later got turned into emojis, but they were widely used as pictograms (maybe not so much in the US, but definitely in Europe) for decades before that...