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Student Spotlight: Seven Years of Type Design Graduates
In 2020 we added Type West Online, welcoming students who couldn’t join us in the classroom at the Archive. Since then, graduates have hailed from every hemisphere on earth, representing 15 different...
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“Typographic Jazz: The Monoprints of Jack Stauffacher” Runs January 27 – June...
Using a mismatched set of 19th-century wood block letters, Stauffacher reimagined type as abstract form. His experiments in inking and layering led to an extraordinary body of monoprints, each...
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Calendar Design in the Online Archive
Kalender 1911 Published by the Amsterdam Type Foundry in 1911, this booklet serves as both calendar and type specimen, featuring a distinctive sans-serif, serif, or blackletter style for each month....
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This Just In: The Darden Type Design Archive
In the six years that followed, Darden and his studio created about a dozen retail type families, including Birra Stout, Corundum, Dapifer, Halyard, Jubilat, and the very popular Omnes, a pillowy soft...
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For Your Reference: Threading Letters
Embroidery, an art form dating back centuries, involves the embellishment of fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn. With its origins deeply rooted in various cultures,...
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Women in Graphic Design
Social Media Highlights We’ve been celebrating International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month on social media by highlighting a few of our favorite artists and designers in the collection. If you...
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“Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer” Runs June 29, 2024 – January 2025
Kennedy in his Detroit printshop, 2021. Photo by Garrett MacLean. Curated by designer and author Kelly Walters, Letterform Archive’s exhibition includes a wide variety of printed artifacts such as...
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Inside The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930
The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930. Paperback with jacket and vellum belly band, 10⅜ × 7⅞ inches, 432 pages.Get your copy If design has always existed, design as...
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This Just In: Diamond Wooden Type Works
Type blocks at 3–8 lines (36–96 point), most presumably from Diamond Wooden Type Works. Collection of Letterform Archive. Diamond Wooden Type Works catalog (blue cover), ca. 1975. Letterform Archive...
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Inside Michael Doret’s Alphabet City
Growing Up in Alphabet City: The Unexpected Letterform Art of Michael Doret. Hardcover, 10 × 10¾ inches, 328 pages (including 7 concertina fold-outs).Get your copy Doret is a lettering legend whose...
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