Artist Research: 
Rudy VanderLans 

Rudy VanderLans was born in Hague, Holland in 1955 and studied at the Royal Academy of Art.  His first desire was to become an illustrator. After an apprenticeship at Wim Crouwel's Total Design studio, he created identity work at Vorm Vijf and Tel Design. 
In 1983, VanderLans was hired by an editorial art director to do illustrations, cover designs, and graphs at the San Francisco Chronicle. That same year, VanderLans married a woman who was soon to become his financial and design partner named Zuzanna Licko. Together, VanderLans  and Licko are most known for co-founding Émigré, which is a magazine that contains digital type foundry, publishers and distributaries of graphic design related software. 
Today, Émigré offers around 50 foundries designed by close to 20 designers.  VanderLans continues to invest time in both Émigré and other design expenditures. Emigré is now on it’s 42nd issue and contains a circulation of 43,000 as it is offered free to anyone who fills out a reply card.