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Back in stock for EU and UK customers, plus a few international destinations: 'Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painter Alphabets' from @letterformarchive

https://shop.bl.ag/products/lettres-decoratives

There's more about the book in this recent bl.ag online review:

https://bl.ag/lettres-decoratives-and-the-history-of-french-sign-painting/

#SignPainting #Enseignes #Signwriting #Books #LetterformArchive

Donald Deskey (design), the Official Souvenir Book for the New York World’s Fair 1939, Exposition Publications, Inc., New York, 1939.

#LetterformArchive #DonaldDeskey #WorldsFair #GraphicDesign #MidcenturyDesign

We’re hiring a Director of Development to lead our small development team, balancing day-to-day operations while driving membership, grants, major gifts, and corporate sponsorships. As a member of leadership, you’ll cultivate relationships, secure major gifts, and drive our sustainability goals.

🕒 Full time
📍 Hybrid role
💵 $120–130k/year DOE

Learn more & apply by June 2: http://lettarc.org/careers

#LetterformArchive #BayAreaJobs #SFJobs #NonprofitDevelopment #NonprofitFundraising #Advertisement

Alexander Girard, dinner menu mailer for La Fonda del Sol restaurant, New York, ca. 1960.

Thanks to Martin Pedersen for the donation!

#LetterformArchive #AlexanderGirard #LaFondaDelSol #MidCenturyIllustration #MidCenturyDesign #SunArt #ChillSun

A portfolio of illustrations of Miffy (“Nijntje” in the original Dutch) and book covers by Dick Bruna.

This portfolio was published by the Groninger Museum to accompany their 1996 exhibition Dick Bruna: The Smell of Success. The folder was designed by Swip Stolk, the designer for the Groninger Museum at that time.

#LetterformArchive #DickBruna #Miffy #Nijntje #Illustration #ChildrensBooks

We can’t share Eugen Gomringer’s “ping pong” without also sharing the artist book it inspired, a favorite in the Letterform Archive collection. Martha Sophie Burkhardt created this edition of 12 as a Book Art student under professor Sabine Golde at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Germany, in 2018.

#LetterformArchive #EugenGomringer #MarthaBurkhardt #SabineGolde #ConcretePoetry #ArtistBook #BookDesign #BookArt

Eugen Gomringer, constellations (“silencio,” “wind,” “o,” “ping pong,” and “avenidas”), 1952–3. As seen in Concrete Poetry: A World View, edited and with an introduction by Mary Ellen Solt, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1968.

From Solt’s introduction: “In 1951 Gomringer had tried to write a few poems of the kind he would later call ‘constellations’…

#LetterformArchive #EugenGomringer #Constellations #ConcretePoetry #VisualLanguage #SpatialPoetry #MaryEllenSolt

This Just In: The Darden Type Design Archive. We’re honored to receive hundreds of annotated font proofs from Joshua Darden, the first African American type designer. The material, produced between 2006 and 2012, documents and illuminates the process of making typefaces.

Read more about Darden and the work from members of his drawing staff: https://letterformarchive.org/news/darden-type-design-archive/

#LetterformArchive #DardenStudio #TypeDesign #BlackHistory #BlackDesigners

Photo of Darden: Jean François Porchez

This Just In: The Darden Type Design Archive. We’re honored to receive hundreds of annotated font proofs from Joshua Darden, the first African American type designer. The material, produced between 2006 and 2012, documents and illuminates the process of making typefaces.

Read more about Darden and the work from members of his drawing staff: https://letterformarchive.org/news/darden-type-design-archive/

#LetterformArchive #DardenStudio #TypeDesign #BlackHistory #BlackDesigners

Photo of Darden: Jean François Porchez

This Just In: The Darden Type Design Archive. We’re honored to receive hundreds of annotated font proofs from Joshua Darden, the first African American type designer. The material, produced between 2006 and 2012, documents and illuminates the process of making typefaces.

Read more about Darden and the work from members of his drawing staff: https://letterformarchive.org/news/darden-type-design-archive/

#LetterformArchive #DardenStudio #TypeDesign #BlackHistory #BlackDesigners

Photo of Darden: Jean François Porchez

This Just In: The Darden Type Design Archive. We’re honored to receive hundreds of annotated font proofs from Joshua Darden, the first African American type designer. The material, produced between 2006 and 2012, documents and illuminates the process of making typefaces.

Read more about Darden and the work from members of his drawing staff: https://letterformarchive.org/news/darden-type-design-archive/

#LetterformArchive #DardenStudio #TypeDesign #BlackHistory #BlackDesigners

Photo of Darden: Jean François Porchez

This Just In: The Darden Type Design Archive. We’re honored to receive hundreds of annotated font proofs from Joshua Darden, the first African American type designer. The material, produced between 2006 and 2012, documents and illuminates the process of making typefaces.

Read more about Darden and the work from members of his drawing staff: https://letterformarchive.org/news/darden-type-design-archive/

#LetterformArchive #DardenStudio #TypeDesign #BlackHistory #BlackDesigners

Photo of Darden: Jean François Porchez