Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 30
called Fallout, 1994.

 

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 33
called No Small Issue, 1995.

 

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 37
called Joint Venture, 1996.

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 42
called The Mercantile Issue, 1997.

 

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 45
called Untitled, 1998.

 

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 47
called Relocating Design, 1998.

 

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 48
called Untitled II, 1998.

 

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 49
called The Everything is for Sale Issue, 1999.

 

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 53
called Graphic Design Incl. 2000.

 

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 52
called The Magazine You Love to Hate, 1999.

 

 

emigre

series of editorials on prominent designers

emigre is the california-based design duo of rudy vanderlans and zuzana licko, who have been collaborating since the early 1980s.

the couple is renowned for their pioneering use of digital fonts and emigre magazine, one of the most influential graphic design publications of the 1980s and 1990s.

Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko

Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, 2018.

 

 

 

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Rudy VanderLans born in Voorburg, Netherlands

61

Zuzana Licko born in Bratislava, Slovakia

82

Rudy and Zuzana meet at the University of California, Berkeley

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 1. A black and white fingerprint on a turquoise background

84

first issue of Emigre magazine published

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 1 called A Magazine for Exiles, 1984.

 

Emigre office with an Apple Macintosh on a desk

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Emigre office, 1985.

Emigre digital foundry created

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Rudy and Zuzana write and publish their programmatic essay, “Ambition/Fear”

94

Emigre team receives a Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design

97

Emigre team is awarded the AIGA gold medal

Page spread of Emigre magazine, issue No. 49 called The Everything is for Sale Issue, 1999.

 

Tape player and recorder used by Rudy VanderLans to record his interviews

98

Emigre receives the Charles Nypels Award for excellence in the field of typography

 

 

Tape player and recorder used by Rudy VanderLans, 1996.

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 69 called The End. Red words The End on a pink background

05

Emigre magazine discontinued

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 69 called The End, 2005.

 

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Exhibit of all issues of Emigre magazine at MoMA New York

 

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Page spread of Program type specimen, 2013.

 

Five digital typefaces from the Emigre Type Library acquired by MoMA New York

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Mousepad with words Design is a Good Idea inside of a red rhombus on a black background

Zuzana Licko wins SOTA Typography Award

 

Mousepad, 1998.

 

 

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Emigre is awarded New York Type Directors Club Medal

 

Emigre donates archives to Letterform Archive, San Francisco

 

i never aspired to make anything but a magazine solely for graphic designers. and i know it gets esoteric at times, but i’d rather not give up on that, because this is the level at which i enjoy investigating graphic design. —rudy vanderlans

 

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 19. Words Starting From Zero and a black zero sign

Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 19 called Starting from Zero, 1991.