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.