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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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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.

 

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

Emigre catalog delivery at Emigre warehouse, Emeryville, CA, 2007.

Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans, Sacramento, CA, 1993.

 

Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans smiling and looking into camera

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. A collage of different geometric shapes, a hat, a robot etc