Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, 2018.
19
20
55
Rudy VanderLans born in Voorburg, Netherlands
61
Zuzana Licko born in Bratislava, Slovakia
82
Rudy and Zuzana meet at the University of California, Berkeley
84
first issue of Emigre magazine published
Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 1 called A Magazine for Exiles, 1984.
86
Emigre office, 1985.
Emigre digital foundry created
89
Rudy and Zuzana write and publish their programmatic essay, “Ambition/Fear”
94
Emigre team receives a Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design
97
Emigre team is awarded the AIGA gold medal
Page spread of Emigre magazine, issue No. 49 called The Everything is for Sale Issue, 1999.
98
Emigre receives the Charles Nypels Award for excellence in the field of typography
Tape player and recorder used by Rudy VanderLans, 1996.
05
Emigre magazine discontinued
Cover of Emigre magazine, issue No. 69 called The End, 2005.
07
Exhibit of all issues of Emigre magazine at MoMA New York
11
Page spread of Program type specimen, 2013.
Five digital typefaces from the Emigre Type Library acquired by MoMA New York
13
Zuzana Licko wins SOTA Typography Award
Mousepad, 1998.
16
Emigre is awarded New York Type Directors Club Medal
Emigre donates archives to Letterform Archive, San Francisco
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.
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
