Exhibitions
The Galleries at Letterform Archive
In 2021, Letterform Archive opened its first permanent gallery in San Francisco. Culled from our collection of more than 100,000 objects across the history of graphic design, the Main Gallery exhibition program mounts shows on special topics of interest for the creative community, ranging from a centennial celebration of Bauhaus typography to an exploration of the power of letterforms in protest posters. Many have been supported an online exhibition that shares the gallery experience with international followers, as well as a lavishly illustrated exhibition catalog that captures the show for posterity.
Since 2024, the Archive’s Reading Room has served as a display case for small, short-run exhibitions, with material drawn from the Archive or the collections and connections of guest curators.
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On View
Type for All! Ten Years of Type West
Discover fonts from 31 countries and the typographic history that inspired them
On view in the Main Gallery Sep 26 to Nov 15, 2026
This exhibition celebrates a decade of our type design education program, emphasizing the relationship between Letterform Archive’s collection and the work produced by the students. With original typefaces from every cohort since the program’s inception, the show tracks the evolution of a pedagogy that balances historical reverence with contemporary practice, and highlights a curated showcase of the very best student work in posters, specimens, process books, and sketches.
Martin Venezky: Process Work
On view in the Reading Room Sep 26 – Nov 8, 2026
Martin Venezky: Process Work explores an intrinsic but less known aspect of Venezky’s creative practice, a body of collage work that exists as a byproduct of the “finished” graphic design objects. These layered, tangled assemblages, and obsessive collections are held together by ordinary clear tape and have been stored away for years in flat files as material evidence of each project’s unique journey. The show also displays more recent experiments where the camera becomes his primary tool to further explore form and materiality. This “process work" is the physical embodiment of the labor, time, rigor, and devotion Venezky puts into his craft and gives viewers a peek into how he creates his signature ornate and dynamic typographic compositions. This exhibition highlights Letterform Archive’s rare collection of process work and opens access to not only design artifacts but also the creative process behind the work.
Martin Venezky: Process Work will include over 50 images made between 1990 to the present, including objects from Venezky’s personal collection.