Author: Chris Westcott

March 11, 2025
Collections Publishing

Inside the Type By series: Bernhard, Excoffon, and Novarese

Three volumes of rare specimen facsimiles lift the curtain on twentieth-century type, gathering essential documents of trendsetting faces as they were first meant to be seen.

The first volumes of the Type By series with covers of select specimens reproduced inside.

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November 4, 2024
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.

Supplement and facsimile volumes (left) and slipcase (right) of NKF: Piet Zwart’s Avant-Garde Catalog for Standard Cables, 1927–1928.

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June 4, 2024
Collections Publishing

Inside The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930

In the latest from Letterform Archive Books, author Gennifer Weisenfeld shares a defining wonder of global design history

The cover of The Complete Commercial: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930 surrounded by artwork inside the book.

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September 25, 2023
Collections Publishing

Inside Our New Facsimile: Die Fläche and the Design of the Vienna Secession

Our latest book opens the vault on Vienna 1900, sharing a graphic design showpiece of the Secession’s leading artist-designers and their students.

Cover pages of every issue of Die Fläche and our new facsimile edition.

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