Zuzana’s family moved from Czechoslovakia to the USA when she was seven. Her first client was her father, a bio-mathematician, who commissioned her to design a Greek font. She studied architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, but switched majors after two years for a degree in visual communications. Rudy attended the same university, studying photography, having already received a degree in graphic design from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK) in 1979. Rudy and Zuzana met in 1982 and got married a year later.
Emigre catalog delivery at Emigre warehouse, Emeryville, CA, 2007.
Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans, Sacramento, CA, 1993.
effective design criticism? i have no idea what that is. but I love graphic design. and i love discussing it, and i love to understand it better, and in order to do so i ask a lot of pesky questions. that’s the model i use. —rudy vanderlans
Cover Story No. 4, digital pigment print published by Gallery 16, 2009.
