Events
Exhibition Tour: 10 × 10 for 10: Ten years of Letterform Archive. One hundred objects of typographic design.
with Stephen Coles
Hear the stories behind some of our favorite objects of design during this in-person, curator-led tour.
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To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we filled our jewel-box gallery with 100 staff picks. Get a glimpse into every corner of the Archive through the lens of the 10 teams who steward the collection. Traverse centuries of graphic art, from a cuneiform tablet to contemporary artists’ books, from icons of modernist typography to everyday ephemera. Never before has such a wide range of the Archive’s collection been viewable in one room.
Your guide for this special tour is Associate Curator & Editorial Director, Stephen Coles.
Stephen Coles
Stephen “Stewf” Coles, Associate Curator & Editorial Director (he/him), joined the staff after serving on our Board of Directors since its inception. For over 20 years, he has been active in the type community, initially as a creative director at FontShop, and later as an independent consultant, connecting font makers with users. Stephen wrote the book The Anatomy of Type and co-founded the websites Typographica and Fonts In Use. With his background in design and journalism, combined with a love of type history, Stephen is responsible for the online voice of the Archive, and shares the collection through the blog and other editorial projects. As a member of the curatorial team, Stephen helps shape the future of the collection, and he co-curated the Strikethrough exhibition.
