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		lainga on May 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (198... "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?

mattupstate on May 28, 2024 [–]

Vignelli was a staunch modernist. Emigre is a definitive post-modern studio. Fundamentally different to someone such as him.

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