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Author: Stephen Coles

Susan Kare and Louise Sandhaus Join Our Board of Directors

We welcome two design icons with the experience and vision to help shape Letterform Archive’s future.

We are pleased and humbled to announce two new members of our Board of Directors. Beyond their impactful professional resumes, Susan Kare and Louise Sandhaus exemplify the range of background and engagement with the design community that will help guide the Archive in our pivotal early years.

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This Just In: Tézzo Suzuki, Calendar 19

From Tokyo, an annual carnival of numerals in every form imaginable — and many forms never before imagined.

Tézzo Suzuki, Calendar 19, published in 2018.

Every year, since 2012, Tézzo Suzuki makes a calendar. It’s a personal project, an opportunity to work without clients. It’s also a chance to “pursue new graphical vocabulary”. With each year he dreams up new ways to render numbers one through 31, each limited only by color (one) and canvas (square). Suzuki graciously donated the 2018 and 2019 editions of the calendar to the Archive, and Calendar 19 just arrived.

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This Just In: Jennifer Morla

The AIGA Medalist, AGI Member, and National Design Award Recipient donates her archive.

Left to Right: AIGA for SFMOMA Lecture Series; Morla Design Lecture for AIGA Los Angeles (cropped); Environmental Poster for AIGA
Left to Right: AIGA for SFMOMA Lecture Series; Morla Design Lecture for AIGA Los Angeles (cropped); Environmental Poster for AIGA.
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This Just In: Amos Kennedy Jr.

We’re honored to share the wit and wisdom of the humble but powerful provocateur. Dozens of his prints are now at the Archive.

Left to Right: Someone Died for Your Right to Vote...; Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand...; Everyday I Dream of Black Freedom and Pride
Left to Right: Someone Died for Your Right to Vote…; Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand…; Fresh Food for the People.
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Introducing Type West at Letterform Archive

We’re thrilled to announce our new postgraduate certificate in typeface design.

Type West at Letterform Archive logo
After two successful years of Type@Cooper West, in partnership with the Continuing Education Department of The Cooper Union in New York, Letterform Archive is launching Type West, a new, independent program taught by innovators in the craft and supported by the Archive’s world-class collection of type and graphic design.
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