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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

Underground Productions issue 12
Jacob Kimvall (Track 172), Malcolm Jacobson, Tobais Barenthin Lindblad
Item date: 1998.
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American Chap-Book: October 1904
Will Bradley
Item date: 1904.
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Emigre #42: The Mercantile Issue
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1997.
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Emigre #31: Raising Voices
Gail Swanlund, Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1994.
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Emigre #60: Honey Barbara: 1-10 & W.AVE (ECD020)
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2001.
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Emigre #50: Think Ink
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1999.
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Huffer issue 4
Mike Giant
Item date: 1997.
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Emigre #67: Graphic design vs. style, globalism, criticism, science, authenticity, and humanism
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2004.
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Magic Moments issue 1
Bates, Ken20, Reim, Tiws
Item date: 2000.
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Emigre #61: The Grassy Knoll: Happily Ever After (ECD022)
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2002.
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WAD Typographer Spring 1958
W. A. Dwiggins
Item date: 1958.
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Emigre #55: The Leisure Time Issue
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2000.
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The Type Founder
Item date: 1905.
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Emigre #15: Do You Read Me?
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1990.
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Emigre #64: Rant
Rudy VanderLans
Item date: 2003.
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Emigre #67: Graphic design vs. style, globalism, criticism, science, authenticity, and humanism
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2004.
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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.
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Skills 7
Greg Lamarche (Sp.One)
Item date: 1995.
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Emigre #39: Graphic Design and the Next Big Thing
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 1996.
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Emigre #21: New Faces
Jeffery Keedy, Rudy VanderLans
Item date: 1992.
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Donald Deskey (design), the Official Souvenir Book for the New York World’s Fair 1939, Exposition Publications, Inc., New York, 1939.

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

Thanks to Martin Pedersen for the donation!

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