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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.

 

 

stories

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

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Zuzana Licko born in Bratislava, Slovakia

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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

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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”

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Emigre team receives a Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design

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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

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Created with Sketch.

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
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