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Events

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  • Lectures & Salons

Salon Series 54: Palestine in Print: Publishing and Archiving as Tools for Resistance

with Ren Allathkani, MJ Fair, Nicole Kaack, Kate Laster
  • Online Workshops

Transform Your Typeface into a Variable Color Font

with SophiaTypeLove
  • Lectures & Salons

Clear as Day: The Story of Clearview

with James Montalbano

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  • Behind the Scenes

New Opening: Digital Marketing Manager

Connect the Archive to our growing community through digital ads, social media, and creative storytelling. Apply by March 23.

  • Collections Publishing

Inside the Type By series: Bernhard, Excoffon, and Novarese

Three volumes of rare specimen facsimiles lift the curtain on twentieth-century type, gathering essential documents of trendsetting faces as they were first meant to be seen.

  • Collections Exhibitions
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This Just In: Lunar New Year Posters by Omnivore

Our new exhibition space not only brought us Good Luck, but also a fantastic set of zodiac posters by a three-headed monster.

  • Collections

This Just In: Chopstick Sleeves as Emissaries of Japanese Typography and Culture

Designer and educator Angie Wang deciphers a collection of over 500 sleeves recently donated to the Archive.

  • Education

Ten Typography Talks to Revisit from 2024

This year, Letterform Archive hosted 24 presentations on typography and graphic design. You can still watch them all.

  • Behind the Scenes

Staff Picks: Letterform Archive’s Holiday Gift Guide 2024

Got a discerning designer on your shopping list? We asked our team for their favorite gift ideas from the Archive.

  • Publishing
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Hot off the Press: New Books, Just in Time for the Holidays

Letterform Archive wraps up a banner year in publishing. Here’s the latest on our final releases of 2024 — plus a limited-time deal for members.

  • Collections Publishing

Inside NKF: Piet Zwart’s Avant-Garde Catalog for Standard Cables, 1927–1928

The new facsimile from Letterform Archive Books brings a Dutch design classic into the present.

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