Celebrating the unique system of shapes for daydreaming printers, our new book presents seven design albums that help tell the story of Spain’s greatest adventure in type.
With the launch of a new book preview site, we asked Alex Trochut and Andreu Balius for a crash course on the modular type marvel from Spain.
For the past five years, our library of graffiti zines has provided a rare snapshot of an underrepresented art form and the dynamic community that sustains it. Graffiti writer and type designer Kel Troughton discusses his role in assembling the collection.
In many ways, graffiti is letterform innovation in its purest form. Its practitioners—known as writers—are constantly inventing new ways to depict the alphabet and its combinations, developing intensely personal styles while pushing the boundaries of legibility. Similar things are said about calligraphy, lettering, and type design—all of which fill design collections—and yet graffiti is commonly separated from these traditional crafts, and often ignored by museums except for work broadly defined as “street art.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.