Zuzana Licko was born in Bratislava, Czexhoslovakia and went to school at the University of California at Berkeley. She had no formal training in the design of typeface and had done nothing with digitally produced and designed typefaces. She had no idea about the "rules of the trade" but went ahead and created uniquely designed bitmaps along side of the introduction to Macintosh in 1984 and the publication of Emigre. She created very innovated designs such as Universal, Oakland, Emperor and Emigre. These designs slowly helped to form and render more traditional designs such as Triplex, Citizen, Senator and Matrix. In the early 1990's the designs done by Zuzana were not only constrained to technology but ventured out and became more malleable and scalable. She is known for taking Baskerville and Bodoni and designing typefaces that were modern revivals of them. She ended up with thirty very diverse and daring typefaces such as Solex, Tarzana, Totally Gothic, totally Glyphic and Hypnopeadia. Her work caught my eye because it was very orderly, yet at the same time very different from that of which I am used to seeing. I especially favor her Matrix typeface, created in 2007.
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