#letterformarchive — Public Fediverse posts

And now our founder and curator Rob Saunders is interviewed in celebration of his spot in the Eames Curious 100: https://www.eamesinstitute.org/stories/inside-letterform-archive-with-rob-saunders/

#LetterformArchive #EamesCurious100 #GLAM #Archives #GraphicDesign #Typography

Milwaukee Transit Passes with Stephen Coles

https://video.bl.ag/w/91s82qjkLw5YAsUyZ8ew75

Ross F. George at Letterform Archive

https://video.bl.ag/w/tuX8cTkK2b9WRvgLZy32Fu

here's a random paperpost, from 25 January 2017:

Letterform Archive - an eclectic sample
https://www.paperposts.me/letterform-archive-an-eclectic-sample

#oulipo #LetterformArchive #emigr #poster #dada #Queneau #paperpost #visualpoetry #1990s

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

"Microfilm cards envelope, ""a few circles"" and ""circle dwg proj"
Aaron Marcus
Item date: 1967.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#microfilmcard #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_ama_0219&targPic=lfa_ama_0219_003.jpg

Underground Productions issue 12
Jacob Kimvall (Track 172), Malcolm Jacobson, Tobais Barenthin Lindblad
Item date: 1998.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_skillscollections_0013&targPic=lfa_skillscollections_0013_021.jpg

American Chap-Book: October 1904
Will Bradley
Item date: 1904.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_unitedstates_0004&targPic=lfa_unitedstates_0004_013.jpg

Behrens-Kursiv und Scmuck
Peter Behrens
Item date: 1908.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0691&targPic=lfa_type_0691_030.jpg

Emigre #42: The Mercantile Issue
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1997.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0042&targPic=lfa_emigre_0042_008.jpg

Symbols Signs Logos Trademarks by Herbert Matter
Herbert Matter
Item date: 1977.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#booklet #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_matter_0028&targPic=lfa_matter_0028_010.jpg

Emigre #31: Raising Voices
Gail Swanlund, Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1994.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0031&targPic=lfa_emigre_0031_018.jpg

Genzsch Antiqua
Friedrich Bauer
Item date: ca. 1910.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0372&targPic=lfa_type_0372_023.jpg

A Rothschild Book of Hours
Unattributed
Item date: ca. 1475.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_antiquarianbound_0004&targPic=lfa_antiquarianbound_0004_168.jpg

Gladiola
Martin Wilke
Item date: 1936.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_1409&targPic=lfa_type_1409_002.jpg

New at https://bl.ag online, ‘Lettres Décoratives and the History of French Sign Painting’, with a look inside the new book from @letterformarchive and the recording from the Salon event with author Morgane Côme:

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

#SignPainting #Enseignes #Signs #Lettering #LetterformArchive #Books

After a long wait, Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 is back in stock in the BLAG Shop.

https://shop.bl.ag/products/die-flache

Shipping is from the UK so EU customers will need to account for any import duties on this hefty @letterformarchive volume.

#GraphicDesign #Lettering #ArtNouveau #LetterformArchive

See Red Women’s Workshop, Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labor screenprint, London, 1975
⁠
In 1974, a group of artists founded the See Red Women’s Workshop to further the women’s liberation movement. Their posters address gender discrepancies in pay, capitalism’s reliance on unpaid homekeeping and childrearing, sexist depictions in advertising, and uniting women against racism.⁠
⁠
Read more about See Red Women’s Workshop in our book, Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest. ⁠ https://letterformarchive.org/shop/strikethrough-typographic-messages-of-protest/
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#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Strikethrough #LetterformArchiveBooks #PublicationDesign #Printing #Publication #LetterformArchive #Typography #TypographyBooks⁠ #SeeRedWomensWorkshop

Tipografische Mededeelingen, Egmont Nummer
Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos
Item date: ca. 1935.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen:typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_1619&targPic=lfa_type_1619_002.jpg

Thank you to @letterformarchive for hosting yesterday’s Salon event with Morgane Côme and yours truly.

Working at incredible speed while we slept, the archive has published the recording online already. All 85 minutes can now be viewed here:

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/salon-series-56-the-history-and-craft-of-french-sign-painting/

The book itself is such a treat and I highly recommend North American customers ordering a copy directly from Letterform Archive:

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres-decoratives/

Those in Europe/elsewhere can compare shipping prices with those in the BLAG shop, which is a great alternative to other online retailers 😊:

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

#SignPainting #Signwriting #Enseignes #LetterformArchive #Lettering #LettresDecoratives #Books

Notes to a Summer Session Course in Calligraphy
Lloyd Reynolds
Item date: 1969.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#looseleaf #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_reynolds_0025&targPic=lfa_reynolds_0025_015.jpg

Erbar Mediaeval
Jakob Erbar
Item date: ca. 1920.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0222&targPic=lfa_type_0222_014.jpg

Character Tests of the Veuve Hérrisant Foundry
Veuve Hérissant
Item date: 1772.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_1460&targPic=lfa_type_1460_005.jpg

Arte de Escribir
Rotllan Blas. Ametller, Torcuato Torío De La Riva
Item date: 1798.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_writingmanuals_0042&targPic=lfa_writingmanuals_0042_110.jpg

Interrelating Typographic Borders: Calligraph Initials
Guido Rosa, Rosa Lawrence.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0501&targPic=lfa_type_0501_007.jpg

A couple of weeks ago I published my periodic ‘worldwide events roundup’ (get them in your inbox via https://bl.ag/join).

This little thread is to share some highlights, starting with next week’s @letterformarchive Salon with Morgane Côme, author of the new Lettres Décoratives book, and yours truly.

It’s free and online on Wednesday, 25 February.

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/salon-series-56-the-history-and-craft-of-french-sign-painting/

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#SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering #LetterformArchive #Events #France

Bernhard Schriften
Lucian Bernhard
Item date: 1936.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0649&targPic=lfa_type_0649_009.jpg

Autumn Moon at Uenoyama
Sadahide
Item date: ca. 1870.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#print #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_ukiyoe_0003&targPic=lfa_ukiyoe_0003_001.jpg

To mark our 10th anniversary we teamed up with COLLINS to create 100 Tens: 50 interpretations of the number 1 from the Archive, paired with 50 contributions from invited designers. Now you can see them all in one place on our blog: https://letterformarchive.org/news/100-tens-celebrate-a-decade-of-letterform-archive/

#100Tens #LetterformArchive #Typography #Lettering

Emigre #60: Honey Barbara: 1-10 & W.AVE (ECD020)
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2001.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0060&targPic=lfa_emigre_0060_013.jpg

Emigre #50: Think Ink
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1999.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0050&targPic=lfa_emigre_0050_025.jpg

Huffer issue 4
Mike Giant
Item date: 1997.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #zine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_skillscollections_0011&targPic=lfa_skillscollections_0011_006.jpg

Emigre #67: Graphic design vs. style, globalism, criticism, science, authenticity, and humanism
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2004.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0067&targPic=lfa_emigre_0067_006.jpg

Magic Moments issue 1
Bates, Ken20, Reim, Tiws
Item date: 2000.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_skillscollections_0332&targPic=lfa_skillscollections_0332_002.jpg

Emigre #61: The Grassy Knoll: Happily Ever After (ECD022)
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2002.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0061&targPic=lfa_emigre_0061_032.jpg

WAD Typographer Spring 1958
W. A. Dwiggins
Item date: 1958.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_dwiggins_0182&targPic=lfa_dwiggins_0182_019.jpg

Emigre #55: The Leisure Time Issue
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2000.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0055&targPic=lfa_emigre_0055_014.jpg

The Type Founder
Item date: 1905.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #journal #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_foundrypub_0002&targPic=lfa_foundrypub_0002_011.jpg

Emigre #15: Do You Read Me?
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1990.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0015&targPic=lfa_emigre_0015_014.jpg

Emigre #64: Rant
Rudy VanderLans
Item date: 2003.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0064&targPic=lfa_emigre_0064_055.jpg

Emigre #67: Graphic design vs. style, globalism, criticism, science, authenticity, and humanism
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2004.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0067&targPic=lfa_emigre_0067_003.jpg

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Parole In Libertà Futuriste, 25 x 25 cm, ink on tin, 1932.

No matter where you are, you can learn about “The Tin Book,” and many more icons of concrete poetry, at our next virtual tour with Milosh Sokolikj and Christina Newhard.

Wed, May 7, 2025
11:00am–12:30pm PT
(7:00pm–8:30pm GMT)
Online via Zoom

Register to attend: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/themed-tour-concrete-poetry/?utm_source=Mastodon

#ConcretePoetry #Typography #LetterformArchive #DesignMuseum #VirtualTour #Ad

Emigre #45: Untitled
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1998.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0045&targPic=lfa_emigre_0045_023.jpg

Skills 7
Greg Lamarche (Sp.One)
Item date: 1995.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #zine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_skillscollections_0007&targPic=lfa_skillscollections_0007_007.jpg

Emigre #39: Graphic Design and the Next Big Thing
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1996.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0039&targPic=lfa_emigre_0039_037.jpg

Emigre #21: New Faces
Jeffery Keedy, Rudy VanderLans
Item date: 1992.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0021&targPic=lfa_emigre_0021_012.jpg

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

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