Rudy VanderLans
Dutch graphic designer (born 1955)
Rudy VanderLans (born 1955) is a Dutch graphic designer, photographer, and the co-founder of Emigre Fonts, an independent type foundry in Berkeley, with his wife Zuzana Licko. He was also the art director and editor of Emigre, an influential magazine devoted to visual communications from 1984 to 2005.2
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Born 1955.1
About
Since arriving in California in 1981, VanderLans has been photographing his adoptive Golden State as an ongoing side project. He has authored a total of 11 photo books on the topic, and staged two solo exhibits at Gallery 16 in San Francisco.
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Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of California, Berkeley3
VanderLans studied graphic design at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague (KABK) and graduated in 1979. He worked as an apprentice designer at Wim Crouwel's Total Design in Amsterdam and as a junior designer at Form Vijf and Tel Design in The Hague.
In 1981, he moved to California and studied photography at the University of California, Berkeley where he met Zuzana Licko.
VanderLans was first introduced to type design while at KABK, where the well-known Dutch type designer and teacher Gerrit Noordzij had started an ambitious and influential type and lettering program in 1970. When asked in 2001 for a contribution to a Noordzij tribute, VanderLans wrote: “Noordzij is a very distant memory for me. Although any wisdom regarding type that I carry with me must have come from him.
From 1983–85, he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in the art department at the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.
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Career
Personal life
Awards
- Date not recordedAIGA Medal9
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Sources
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- 1WikidataRudy VanderLans on Wikidata
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- 10WikidataEmigre, Founder