Events

Letterform Archive hosts and presents a variety of lectures, workshops, and other events related to letterforms.

Please note the location listed for each event as some take place at a venue other than the Archive. For updates on upcoming events and other news, join the Letterform Archive mailing list.

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  Politics of Arabic Type Design
  Nadine Chahine

  Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium
  
  Wed, Jan 29, 2020
  6:00pm–7:30pm

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  Power in Design
  Nadine Chahine

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Sat–Sun, Feb 1–2, 2020
  10:00am–5:00pm

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  Introduction to Modern Type Design
  Graham Bradley

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Wed, Feb 5, – Wed, Apr 8, 2020
  6:30pm–9:30pm

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  Hybrid Letterforms
  Choi Sung Min

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Sat–Sun, Feb 8–9, 2020
  10:00am–5:00pm

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  Typewriter Art: Typestracts, Artyping, and Constellation Poetry
  Amelia Grounds

  Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium
  
  Tue, Feb 18, 2020
  6:00pm–7:30pm

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  Experimenting with Unconventional Type Families
  Marta Bernstein

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Sat, Feb 29, – Sun, Mar 1, 2020
  10:00am–5:00pm

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  More is More, Sometimes. In Defense of Display Typefaces.
  Marta Bernstein

  Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium
  
  Tue, Mar 3, 2020
  6:00pm–7:30pm

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  Too Black/Ain’t Black Enough, or Stereotype and Truth: Typography in African American periodicals, popular culture, and artists’ books
  Tia Blassingame

  Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium
  
  Tue, Mar 17, 2020
  6:00pm–7:30pm

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  The Text Block as Building Block
  Angie Wang

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Sat–Sun, Mar 28–29, 2020
  10:00am–5:00pm

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  Finding Y
  Hope Meng

  Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium
  
  Tue, Mar 31, 2020
  6:00pm–7:30pm

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  Creative Monograms
  Hope Meng

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Sat, Apr 18, – Sat, Apr 25, 2020
  10:00am–5:00pm

Past Events

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  A Crash Course in Type Selection
  Stephen Coles, Christopher Slye

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Sat–Sun, Jan 11–12, 2020
  10:00am–5:00pm

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  Collected Conversation
  Kate Long

  Panel Discussion at Fruitsuper
  
  Wed, Dec 4, 2019
  6:00pm–7:00pm

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  Modern Gothic Need Not Be an Oxymoron
  John Stevens

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Sat–Sun, Nov 23–24, 2019
  10:00am–5:00pm

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  Beyond Exemplars and Ductus
  John Stevens

  Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium
  
  Tue, Nov 19, 2019
  6:00pm–7:30pm

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  Certificate Core: Experience the Origin of Roman Inscriptional Capitals
  John Stevens

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Certificate Program
  Sat–Sun, Nov 16–17, 2019
  10:00am–5:00pm

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  Surprise Salon: The Wood Type Prints of Jack Stauffacher
  Rob Saunders

  Salon at Letterform Archive
  
  Thu, Nov 14, 2019
  6:30pm–7:30pm

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  Letterform Archive Book Sale
  

  Special Event at Letterform Archive
  
  Sun, Nov 10, 2019
  12:00pm–3:00pm

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  Notes on Icons and Design
  Susan Kare

  Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium
  
  Tue, Nov 5, 2019
  6:00pm–7:30pm

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  W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
  Silas Munro

  Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium
  
  Tue, Oct 29, 2019
  6:00pm–7:30pm

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  Morla : Design Book Party
  Jennifer Morla, Michael Vanderbyl

  Reception at Letterform Archive
  
  Wed, Oct 23, 2019
  6:30pm–8:30pm

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  Certificate Core: Scripsit and Sculpsit
  Paul Shaw

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Certificate Program
  Sat–Sun, Oct 19–20, 2019
  10:00am–5:00pm

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  Live at the Archive: The Itinerant Printer
  Chris Fritton

  Lecture at Letterform Archive
  
  Thu, Oct 17, 2019
  6:30pm–7:30pm

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  Designs on Democracy: The Roles and Responsibilities of Graphic Designers in the Trump Era
  Sabiha Basrai

  Lecture at SFPL Main Library, Koret Auditorium
  
  Tue, Oct 15, 2019
  6:00pm–7:30pm

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  Floating Downscreen: An Intro to Lettering on the iPad
  James Edmondson, Tad Wagner

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Sat–Sun, Oct 12–13, 2019
  10:00am–5:00pm

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  Live at the Archive: The Visual Literature of Warren Lehrer
  Warren Lehrer, Dennis J Bernstein

  Lecture at Letterform Archive
  
  Fri, Oct 11, 2019
  6:30pm–7:30pm

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  Salon Series 20: Arthur Baker
  Carl Crossgrove

  Salon at Letterform Archive
  
  Thu, Sep 26, 2019
  6:30pm–7:30pm

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  Pushing Pencils and Pulling Pens: Lettering Fundamentals
  Nils Lindstrom

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Sat–Sun, Sep 21–22, 2019
  10:00am–5:00pm

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  Japanese Typography, Lettering, and Commercial Art in the Early Twentieth Century
  Florence Fu

  Lecture at ATypI Conference
  
  Thu, Sep 5, 2019
  9:30am–10:00am

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  Restaurant Branding
  Christine Celic Strohl, Eric Strohl, Roberto de Vicq

  Workshop at Letterform Archive
  Type West Public Workshop
  Wed, Sep 4, – Wed, Oct 9, 2019
  6:30pm–8:30pm

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  Salon Series 19: Wood Type
  Stephen Coles

  Salon at Letterform Archive
  
  Thu, Aug 29, 2019
  6:30pm–7:30pm