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Zuzana Licko (born 1961) is a typeface designer from Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Licko is co-founder of the Emigre type foundry of Sacramento, California (from 1984). Licko's work for Emigre originally began with experimental typefaces for her dot matrix printer, but these styles continued to find favour after the advent of the office laser printer in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She is married to Dutch type and graphic designer and publisher Rudy VanderLans. Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Bratislava (until 1919: PreÅ¡porok in Slovak and Pressburg in German and English; Pozsony in Hungarian) is the capital of Slovakia and the countrys largest city, with a population of some 450,000. ... Émigré is a French term that literally refers to a person who has migrated out, but often carries a connotation of politico-social self-exile. ... Jump to: navigation, search A type foundry is a company that produces and/or distributes typefaces. ... Jump to: navigation, search City nickname: The Big Tomato Location Location of Sacramento in California Government County Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 99. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Jump to: navigation, search A computer printer is a computer peripheral device that produces a hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics, usually on paper) from data stored in a computer connected to it. ... Jump to: navigation, search A laser printer is a common type of computer printer that produces high quality printing, and is able to produce both text and graphics. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Rudy VanderLans is a Dutch type and graphic designer and the co-founder of Emigre, an independent type foundry. ...


By the mid-1990s, Licko worked on two notable revivals: Mrs Eaves, based on Baskerville, and Filosofia, based on Bodoni. Both were personal interpretations of the earlier models and feature extensive ligatures. Bodoni is a typeface designed by Giambattista Bodoni (February 16, 1740 in Saluzzo – November 29, 1813 in Parma), an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer of high repute. ... In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more letterforms are written or printed as a unit. ...


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AIGA - Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans (2132 words)
Licko was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and moved to the United States at the age of seven.
While Licko and VanderLans were being pilloried by traditionalists, designers who had once championed their work for its aggressiveness began to condemn it as too readily identifiable, and therefore unusable.
Licko's ascendance in a primarily male-dominated profession and her bypassing of traditional training have been an inspiration to a generation of font designers with access to computer technology.
Wired 1.05: Emigre (333 words)
Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans are the founders of Emigre, a mom-and-pop, electronic-cottage industry that began as a magazine, became one of the first electronic type foundries, created its own music label, and recently published its first book, Graphic Design into the Digital Realm.
Licko (Czech by birth) and VanderLans (a Dutch ex-patriate) were not only present at the revolution, their editorial and typographic design helped shape it.
Licko's creation of some of the first desktop digital typefaces and VanderLans's Mac-based experimentation with new ways to present text and images have influenced the ongoing transformation of graphic designers from their traditional, Gutenberg roots to an unknown, digitized future.
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