Inside Boutiques Magnifiques
Our new suite of postcards combines old-world Parisian charm with modern flourishes from illustrator and lettering artist Laura Serra. Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at this delightful collaboration.
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Inside Creative Papers
From the golden age of letterpress to the birth of digital type, our new series of gift-wrap and craft-paper books transform beloved objects from our collection for use in wrapping, crafting, framing, and decor.
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.
Inside Hotel Retro: Vintage Luggage Labels Get New Life as Charming Stickers in Our Latest Book
Both a feat of production and a feast for the eyes, Hotel Retro reproduces exquisite twentieth-century steamer trunk labels as hundreds of full-color stickers that readers can actually peel off the page and adhere.
Inside Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets
With alphabets from 12 grand portfolios that brought the sign painter’s art to the page, our new book is a trip through time to the golden age of urban lettering.
A Primer on Letterform Archive Books
Revenue Director Grace Tsai reflects on what she’s learned about the range of titles published by Letterform Archive.
Letterform Archive is home to all who love great design. The Archive is also home to all of us who love letters, art, and books, and nowhere is that more apparent and alive than in our publishing program. I joined the Archive’s team as Revenue Director last June. Since then, it’s been a pleasure for me to learn not just about our immense collection, but about the exquisite books we publish. As a lay person new to the world of publishing, I’ve learned so much from our knowledgeable and talented Letterform Archive Books team, led by Lucie Parker.
Inside Calligraphic Menagerie: Of Swashbuckling Scribes and Cursive Critters
From centuries-old writing manuals to our new notecard set, flourishing shows the playful side of early modern Europe’s masters of the pen.
Behind the Scenes with Licko & VanderLans
We connect with the duo responsible for Emigre Fonts, whose specimens are reproduced in the latest title from Letterform Archive Books.
With cutting-edge fonts based on the bitmap as well as digital revivals that transcended the screen, Emigre Fonts pioneered type design in the early days of the pixel. But it was their formidable commitment to print that documented—and helped affirm—their contributions to twentieth-century visual culture.
Inside Emigre Fonts, Type Specimens, 1986–2024
With 40 complete type specimens packed into 5 pounds, this compendium documents the output of one of the earliest (and most prolific) digital type foundries. Here’s a peek at the book’s foreword.
When Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko donated the Emigre papers to Letterform Archive not long after we opened our doors in 2015, we were spoiled for all collections to follow.
It wasn’t just that their archive was rich with material that defined an important era in design—one in which the new digital tools of the 1980s and ’90s created a surge in independent publishing and type design, with VanderLans and Licko’s innovative Emigre magazine and digital foundry at the forefront.