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A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects, and amplify other design voices.

(Temporarily posting selectively as we gauge the social media landscape, but we are active here and will respond to mentions!)

#Typography #Lettering #GraphicDesign #Books #Library #Museum #DesignMuseum #DesignSchool #DesignPublisher #DesignBooks #fedi22

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Happy birthday, Alan Blackman! The beloved San Francisco calligrapher and educator is 96 years old today.

Alan Blackman, original artwork for a birthday card, date unknown.

#LetterformArchive #AlanBlackman #Calligraphy #GreetingCardDesign #Bananas #Alphabet #HappyBirthday #BirthdayCard #LfABirthday

Detail crop of the B from the illustration. Heart stickers replace the brand stickers commonly found on fruit.
Detail crop of the D from the artwork.

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We are seeking a typographically-sensitive web designer with HubSpot experience to help us integrate our basic email newsletter design into their templating system.

Implementing our brand fonts (rather than their ancient websafe fonts palette) is key, as many of our subscribers use email clients that support webfonts.

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We’re hiring a Director of Development to lead our small development team, balancing day-to-day operations while driving member, grant, major gift, and corporate sponsorship pipelines. As a key 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 and apply by June 2: http://lettarc.org/careers

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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!

Four illustrations of suns with faces in a similar style tp the first image but with different color schemes and burst schemes. The same words surround each sun.
Four more illustrations of suns with faces in a similar style tp the first image but with different color schemes and burst schemes. The same words surround each sun.
An unfolded brochure with the illustrations shown in the previous images and a blank panel for mailing info (with space for address and stamp).

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New online workshop! Latin-Arabic Logo Matchmaking with Azza Alameddine Alameddine.

Learn about Arabic calligraphic styles and explore the relationship between Arabic and Latin letterforms. Suitable for designers of all levels. No need to know Arabic to participate. Sessions will be held in English.

Three Saturdays: April 27, May 4, May 11
11am–1pm PT / 18:00–20:00 GMT
https://letterformarchive.org/shop/latin-arabic-logo-matchmaking/

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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.

Opening a portfolio of leaves, each featuring a simple illustration of childrens’ book characters.

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Join us Tuesday, April 2 for a free online lecture, Type Revival for Period Film & TV with Leah Spencer. She will offer a look into this unique intersection of traditional craft and contemporary tools. See her process as used in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” to reproduce original mid-century type and lettering as digital fonts.

Register here: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/type-revival-for-period-film-tv/

#LetterformArchive #LeahSpencer #GraphicDesign #FilmAndTV #MidCenturyModern #typography #The_Marvelous_Mrs #MarvelousMrsMaisel

Grid of images of props, all featuring lettering or typography.
Still from a TV show. A woman in a dress looks down at a box.
Box from previous image. It’s a shoebox with a “Shapiro’s Footwear” logo on all sides in script and sans serif.

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We’re very excited about this new addition to our collection: a 1882 book from a jacquard weaving course in Lyon, France. As a manuscript, it’s all hand drawn and hand lettered, and it has loom punch cards and fabric samples tipped in. It also has hundreds of intricate diagrams and instructions for this semi-automated form of weaving. Learn more and see a page-through video in our latest blog post by @tanyatypes, Threading Letters: https://letterformarchive.org/news/threading-letters/

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The “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin was born on this day in 1942.

Aretha Franklin poster by Milton Glaser, published as a supplement in Eye Magazine (the U.S. magazine, not @eyemagazine) vol. 1, no. 9, New York, November 1968.

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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.

Hands page through a book with thick board pages, eventually forming a ping pong table.

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Jiří Kolář, J: Kolar 67, Prague, 1967. A unique book of nine typewriter compositions, each with cut-outs revealing successive pages.

Video paging through a book with a black cover and cutout typewritten title reading JIRI KOLAR ’67.

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Happy Valentine’s Day from Letterform Archive❣️

Video cycling through the letters L O V E represented by historical printed materials from the 19th–21st centuries.

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John G. Ohnimus, Henderson’s Sign Painter, R. Henderson, Newark, 1906.

Book page with alphabet of inscriptional style letters with extra long, sharp serifs.
Book page with decorative lettering: “R. Henderson / Display Bulletins / Newark / New Jersey”
Book page with flat illustration of a boat and decorative lettering: “Clean as an ocean breeze : Iris Soap”

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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/

Photo of Darden: Jean François Porchez

A printed G circled with a red pen. A redrawing of the G in that red pen is below it, illustrating a different line structure. A blue checkmark is on the right.
The bottom part of a printed italic K. Two red-pen drawings of the K are below, showing different solutions for the design. Red notes day “a little wide” and “smaller up top”.
Photo of a man in black glasses with a big smile. Yep people talk in background.

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Susan Kare (illustration, bitmap type) & Clement Mok (design), MacPaint Manual, Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, 1983.

Photo of an interior spread from the booklet showing the MacPaint interface and describing its parts.
Photo of an interior spread from the booklet showing the pattern fill feature and an exploded diagram of a computer mouse.
Photo of an interior spread from the booklet showing “Four Ways to Erase”.

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Clement Mok writes, “among the 100+ projects that I crafted for the Mac launch, the MacPaint user manual holds a special place. … Rather than a verbose document, Susan Kare and I streamlined the first draft – a daunting 150 pages – to a concise 24 pages, employing call-outs and illustrations. MacPaint was a designer’s first on-ramp to personal computing. Point, click, drag, cut & paste became the new idiom of designing.”

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Slides from the archives of Clement Mok, designer and creative director at Apple Computer in the 1980s.

A white binder with “Clement Mok Archives / Apple Graphic History / 1980-1987” on its cover is opened to reveal slides. A hand holds the slides to the light. Photos include Steve Jobs, stills from a TV ad for the Mac, Apple employees, TIME magazine cover, and more.

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Jill Savini (art director), No. / Yes. Apple Logo Standards, Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, 1987.

Many thanks to early Apple designer Clement Mok, who generously donated material from the company’s formative years.

See it in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_mok_0122

3 panels of a printed brochure illustrating how not to use the Apple logo (on a photograph, on a black field, or in a white circle on a blue field). The word “No” in Hebrew, Polish, and German are in text above each example.
An unfolded brochure with 4 panels describing the Apple logo, its evolution, colors, and instructions for its use.

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Matching Jack Stauffacher’s wood type and one-of-a-kind prints.

Our upcoming exhibition features more than 100 prints, sketches, iterative proofs, and other explorations of Stauffacher’s creative process. Typographic Jazz opens January 27, 2024 at Letterform Archive.

4 animations, each starting with photographs of wood type blocks arranged on the canvas in the way that matches the subsequent prints.

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Seymour Chwast, Bestial Bold, Push Pin Graphic, No. 84: Not Quite Human Issue, Push Pin Studios, New York, May/June 1980. Bestial Bold https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/84714/bestial-bold is an adaptation of Chwast’s typeface, Blimp https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32748/chwast-blimp (Photo-Lettering, 1970); he simply added eyes and teeth.

“ⓊUncopyrighted 1980 by Push Pin Studios, Inc. Unauthorized use will be met with indifference.”

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Our last Mastodon post of 2023 is also our 500th. We love it here and intend to keep on sledding. See you for the next 500!

Image: Arctic Hams Sugar Cured in Artificial Temperature, Schmidt Lithography Company, ca. 1870. Read more about the Richard Sheaff Ephemera Collection: https://letterformarchive.org/news/richard-sheaff-vintage-ephemera/

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Czeschka-Antiqua specimen (typeface by Carl Otto Czeschka), Genzsch & Heyse, Germany, 1917. See more in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0371&targPic=lfa_type_0371_002.jpg

#CarlOttoCzeschka #TypeSpecimen #TypeDesign #Typography #Ornament #Printing #GenzschHeyse #German #1910s

A square printed sample of swashy, decorative letters RESZ reversed out of metallic gold surrounded by ornamental borders in black.

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Get your Tezzo Suzuki calendar before they sell out! Celebrate each day of 2024 with a unique hand-drawn number, a yearly tradition from Suzuki since 2012. Available now in our shop: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/tezzo-suzuki-calendar-24-2024/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A calendar of illustrative numerals hanging on a wall above a credenza with a stack of books and houseplant.
A calendar cover in black and gray with the words “CALENDAR 24 / TEZZO SUZUKI” and a cropped title “Happy New Year 2024” in Esperanto.
A shallow depth-of-field closeup of a calendar month with illustrative numerals.

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Aldo Novarese, “Eurostile, a Synthetic Expression of Our Times, Pagina, International Magazine of Graphic Design, No. 4, January 1964.

“The square shape with narrow curved angles is a typical architectural expression of our times, much as the round arch was of the Roman period, producing the inscriptional characters, or the ogive arch of the Gothic style, which in its turn produced medieval types.”⁠

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“Eurostile's outline is already familiar to us. Without realising it, it is present whenever we look at a series of windows of vehicles, at a television set, or at very modern buildings.”

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