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Since January 2025, Letterform Archive’s reading room has served as a display case for small, short-run exhibitions. Our eighth show, Martin Venezky: Process Work, explores an intrinsic but lesser known aspect of Venezky’s creative practice: a body of collage and photographic work that exists as a byproduct of “finished” graphic design objects. This process work is the physical embodiment of the rigor and devotion Venezky puts into his craft, giving viewers a peek into how he creates his signature typographic compositions. The show highlights our rare collection of the artist’s process materials and underscores the Archive’s commitment to providing open access to both design artifacts and the creative practices that inform them.

In addition to our beautiful full-length titles, Letterform Archive Books has worked to bring our collection to you with a variety of delightful gift and stationery products created for lovers of great design. For our newest series, we scoured the stacks for objects that deserved to be reinterpreted in a truly special way. Crafted with the same care and rigor as our vibrant facsimile editions, our collection of Creative Papers adapts works by key figures from design history for use in today’s creative endeavors.

Before design historians became enamored with husband-and-wife creative teams like Charles and Ray Eames, Dorothy Shepard and Otis “Shep” Shepard created some of the most iconic American designs of the 1930s through the mid-20th century. These two powerfully talented commercial artists spearheaded a transition to modernist aesthetics in American advertising. From chewing gum packaging and beer ads to a luxury island, they designed major brand campaigns and experiences across the country.

Spanning stylistic and topical boundaries, Letterform Archive’s collection often invites unexpected and evocative connections. Seen Together is a new blog series featuring our favorite object pairings—works that may come from very different times and places, yet sit next to each other in dialogue on a tour table.

Donated along with their collection in 2016, Emigre’s font development files represent a rare comprehensive view of a digital type foundry’s process. After two years of work, the collection is now digitized in full, a world’s first for such an archive. A selection of objects will be made available to the public through the Online Archive.

We are excited to announce a meaningful way to support Type West students through accessible and high-impact giving. What’s Type West? Type West is a yearlong, postgraduate certificate program in type design available in person in San Francisco or online to students worldwide. We are exceedingly proud of this program, which is now celebrating its tenth year!

How can you support the future of type design through historically grounded, accessible education? Consider joining the Small Foundry Fund.

यह लेटरफॉर्म आर्काइव पर प्रकाशित होने वाला पहला हिंदी लेख है। इसमें दुनिया भर से आई वस्तुएँ शामिल हैं, और यह लेख उनके कुछ चुने हुए उदाहरण प्रस्तुत करता है। इसे लिखने का उद्देश्य सिर्फ़ नए पाठकों तक पहुँचना नहीं है, बल्कि रॉडिकल एक्सेस के विचार को आगे बढ़ाना है, जिस पर लेटरफॉर्म आर्काइव की नींव रखी गई है।