Rudolph Ruzicka

[2] He emigrated to the United States of America at age ten, living first in Chicago where he took drawing lessons at the Hull House School before becoming an apprentice wood engraver.

He published New York in collaboration with the Grolier Club --a series of thirty colored wood engravings that depicted the changes in architecture.

[5] In 1935 Ruzicka was awarded the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and in that same year began work with the Typographic Development staff at Mergenthaler Linotype Company, for which he was to produce typeface families.

He was in charge of finding antique and modern tools used for the printmaking processes for a display at the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Houghton Library at Harvard University.

Over the years, D. B. Updike and Ruzicka collaborated on a number of well-respected book designs, including Newark and the Grolier Club's Irving, as well as a fine series of Merrymount Press annual keepsakes.