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Supplementary audio, educational espionage, animations, and video for Growing Up in Alphabet City: The Unexpected Letterform Art of Michael Doret, a Letterform Archive Book.

Audio

Historic Speech written by Bernard Doret, spoken by the Bar Mitzvah Boy himself, recorded at Titra Sound Studios, New York City, 1959

Educational Espionage

An embarrassing letter I wrote to my high school art teacher Sol Schwartz in 1962.
A secret letter written by my dad, asking Sol how to help keep me on the straight and narrow to design excellence.

Animations

Two promotional animations for my Workshop "Letter/Image"

Full Animation for record jacket "Bedlam Ballroom", 2020, and animation demonstration of rejected burlesque figures for the jacket

Section divider for The Workbook—taken to animation, 1989.
Animated promotion for Workshop in Aix-en-Provence, 2019

Demonstration of Pop-Up business card for Bob and Mark (BAM), two game designers, 1987

Video

Mini documentary about Doret by Erwin Darmali
Complete video recording of demo and conversation with Norman Hathaway at Cooper Union, 2024
Complete video recording of talk at Cooper Union, 2015