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 called Starting from Zero, 1991.
before emigre
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.
