Rudy VanderLans is a Dutch type and graphic designer and the co-founder of Emigre, an independent type foundry. VanderLans studied at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. Later, he moved to California and studied photography at U.C. Berkeley. In 1984, VanderLans, with his wife Zuzana Licko, founded Emigre and began to publish Emigre Magazine, a journal for experimental graphic design. (Wikipedia)