Re: Re: Dif Juz questions / Emigre #9

The first half-dozen or so of the Raygun spin-off Huh (newsstand 
distribution starting at issue #20) featured v23's Vaughan Oliver as 
main design dude. Those issues are worth tracking down just for the 
design...

Jeff

[email protected] wrote:

>don't want to step on james' toes, but should correct some recently posted 
>misinformation:
>
>1.  about dif juz:   although you might think that the band's name would be 
>pronounced like the word "diffuse",  the now ex-4ad employee who worked with 
>the band confirmed for me that the second syllable of the name rhymes with 
>"buzz."
>
>2.  emigre has always been a graphic design magazine.  its early issues 
>focussed on the then-new area of digital typography.  the founders of the 
>magazine later started up a small independent record label (emigre records), 
>but emigre has never been a music zine.  emigre is still published (see 
>www.emigre.com), and i don't think there was any direct connnection between 
>the company that runs emigre and raygun.  the designers on the list can 
>correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe that raygun was a descendant of a 
>magazine called beach culture, started by a designer who had previously 
>worked for surfer magazine.
>
>mike
>