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Rudy Vanderlans
Graphic Design; Photography
Dutch
(Voorburg, Holland, 1955 - )


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Biography

Rudy VanderLans was born in 1955 in The Hague, Netherlands, and in 1979 he graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in the same city.  In 1981 he moved to California for graduate studies in photography at University of California at Berkeley.  Two years later, he married Zuzana Licko, and in 1984 they started Emigre.  In 1986 he and Licko started the Emigre Font Library; in 1993 they published the book Emigre: Graphic Design into the Digital Realm (Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York).  They received the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design in 1994.  Three years after, VanderLans received the AIGA Gold Medal Award, the same year that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art mounted the exhibition, Emigre Magazine: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design.  In 1998 he and Licko received the international Charles Nypels Award for Innovation in Typography.  In 1999 the 50th issue of Emigre was published.  VanderLans published his first comprehensive book of photographs titled Supermarket (Gingko Press, California) in 2001.  His design work has been published extensively in journals, books, and exhibition catalogues, including Design Culture Now: National Design Triennial, published in 2000 by Princeton Architectural Press, with contributions by Albrecht, Lupton and Skov Holt.

VanderLans’s work has been shown in several solo photography exhibitions including an exhibition in 2001 at ModernBook/Gallery494 in Palo Alto, at the Michael Dawson Gallery in Los Angeles in 2002, and at Gallery 16 in San Francisco.  These would be the first photographs by Rudy VanderLans to enter the permanent collection. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2003)



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