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Now on view through March 9
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer

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  • Lectures & Salons

Design Pioneers: African American Graphic Designers You Should Know

with Glenford Laughton
  • Lectures & Salons

Sacred Lines: A Journey Through Arabic Calligraphy

with Khalid Pablo Casado
  • Special Events

Type West 2024 Online Graduation & Typeface Reveal

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  • 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.

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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.

  • Publishing

Inside Citizen Printer

Letterform Archive’s monograph of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., packs a lifetime of letterpress achievement into an ecstatic meditation on the power of print.

  • Collections Publishing

Inside Michael Doret’s Alphabet City

Our latest book gives designers a seldom-seen peek into the studio of a lettering master, where logos, posters, and signs are drawn by hand.

  • Collections

This Just In: Diamond Wooden Type Works

An untitled catalog and some tiny wood blocks from India invite us to rewrite type history.

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