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Ten Typography Talks to Revisit from 2024
This year, Letterform Archive hosted 24 presentations on typography and graphic design. You can still watch them all.
We presented two dozen lectures and salons in 2024, both online and onsite at the Archive. Unless you’re our biggest fans (thank you!), you likely didn’t get to catch them all. So, here are a few videos that are worth some of your holiday downtime, from insightful looks at design history to new approaches that will exercise your typographic eye.
Compared to What?
Data storyteller RJ Andrews shows how masterpiece data graphics use shapes and letters to create meaning from data.
RJ also visited us early in the year for to show highlights from his collection of Glorious Data Graphics.
Make Icons Editable, Animated, and Colorful with Font Technologies
Discover new ways to make icons customizable, animate-able, colorful, and recolor-able by utilizing variable font and color font technology. With Wenting Zhang, co-founder of Typogram.
Type Revival for Period Film & TV
Leah Spencer reveals her process of replicating period-appropriate typography for productions like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Salon Series 49: A Seat at the Table: Queer*+ Intersections
To celebrate Pride month, members of the Collections Team — Eve Scarborough, Jada Simone Haynes, and Mikhail of Hearts — feature a selection of work by Queer*+ designers.
A Certain Cotta: Book-Cover Design from Buenos Aires
Archive docent Francisco Roca introduces us to a young book cover designer who would become a sensation in ’60s Argentina, Latin America, and Spain.
The Past Inside the Future: Commercial Classics at Five
Tim Ripper explores of one of the most fascinating eras in type history, and how it inspired the creation of a new foundry.
Richard Danne Goes Airborne With “Stars” Launch!
The legendary designer of the NASA logo and design program shares images and tales from his unique, six-decade career at this in-person book launch.
The Women of Photo-Lettering
Anne Galperin explores fresh findings from ongoing research on the unsung women behind phototype designs, including a special focus on Betti Haft.
Printing the Message for the People: The Making of Citizen Printer
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. (printing legend), and Lucie Parker (Letterform Archive Books Publisher) riff on their adventures in bringing a monograph to life.
Salon Series 51: Piet Zwart’s NKF
Paul Stirton and Elizabeth Meggs delve into the life and work of Piet Zwart, whose typographic masterpiece for a Dutch cable company redefined catalog design.
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