Letterform Archive

  1. Events
  2. Organizers
  3. Letterform Archive
https://ppndev.wpengine.com/organizer/letterform-archive-2/

tribe_organizer

Events from this organizer
Today

Featured Featured

Hybrid Salon 48: Design Action Collective: 20 Years of Political Graphics

Letterform Archive 2325 Third St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA, United States

Join us for an in-depth exploration of Design Action Collective’s archives with designer and educator Sabiha Basrai.   Design Action Collective was founded in the early 2000s by two members of Inkworks Press. For over 20 years, the shop has been producing graphics to serve social justice campaigns and grassroots organizations. This salon will feature […]

Putting Pencil to Pixel

Zoom CA, United States

With Angy Che   Unlock the power of the iPad to create dynamic, polished, and punchy lettering pieces. No previous Procreate or lettering experience is required. In this four day workshop (over two consecutive weekends), participants will learn how to bring words to life through the art of lettering. Although we'll use the iPad and […]

Featured Featured

Live at the Archive: Craig Frazier Book Party

Letterform Archive 2325 Third St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA, United States

Craig Frazier visits the Archive to share his new book, Drawn, his career as a designer and illustrator, and his obsession with big ideas. As an internationally recognized designer and illustrator, Craig’s work is known for its simplicity, intelligence, and wit. He will talk about his orientation to design as a drawer which eventually led to […]

Multilingual Typesetting on the Web

Zoom CA, United States

with Marie Otsuka This workshop will cover a variety of technical techniques for typesetting multiple scripts on websites, with a focus on CJK writing systems. Typesetting different languages together can be a challenge for online projects. This 2-day intensive will review HTML and CSS techniques on formatting typography for multiple scripts, especially with East Asian […]

Featured Featured

Design Week Open House at Letterform Archive

Letterform Archive 2325 Third St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA, United States

See a slice of the Archive and commune with typography lovers during the largest design festival on the West Coast. Where does your design inspiration come from? Maybe it’s time to get off the internet and into the library! Letterform Archive holds one of the world’s best collections of graphic design and typography artifacts. On […]

Featured Featured

Salon Series 49: A Seat at the Table: Queer*+ Intersections

Zoom CA, United States

with Eve Scarborough, Jada Simone Haynes, Mikhail of Hearts To celebrate Pride month, the Archive features a selection of work by Queer*+ designers, curated by members of the Collections Team. To celebrate Pride month and the ongoing struggles for equity, this salon will showcase insights and perspectives of Eve Scarborough, Jada Simone Haynes, and Mikhail […]

Featured Featured

A Certain Cotta: Book-Cover Design from Buenos Aires

Letterform Archive 2325 Third St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA, United States

with Francisco Roca Learn about the young graphic artist who designed book covers that would become a sensation in ’60s era Argentina, Latin America, and Spain. In 1962, young graphic artist Juan Ángel Cotta died in a car crash. His ongoing work project at the time, 103 covers for Los Libros del Mirasol —one of South […]

Taller Inical: De Formas, Trazos y Letras

Zoom CA, United States

with Fer Cozzi ¡Hacer fuentes es divertido! Este taller le presenta las múltiples posibilidades creativas que implica el diseño tipográfico. Este curso en línea de 5 semanas (cinco sábados: 15 de junio, 22 de junio, 29 de junio, 13 de julio, y 20 de julio) busca ser un espacio de aproximación lúdica al entendimiento de […]

Featured Featured

Dust to Digital: Digitizing Historical Print Media from Pakistan and Iran

Zoom CA, United States

with Saad Khan Explore historical print media from Iran and Pakistan. Join us on an interesting trip through the world of old print media from Iran and Pakistan. This lecture will explore Farsi and Urdu magazines, movie posters, typography, and the importance of preserving neglected cultural materials in the face of rapidly changing technologies. Letterform […]

Featured Featured

The Past Inside the Future: Commercial Classics at Five

San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium

Around the turn of the 19th century, a revolution left the world of typography utterly different from what it had been. The explosion of new type styles during this period—including the modern face, the fat face, the slab serif, and the sans serif—reflected new technologies and ways of thinking that set the stage for modern […]

Featured Featured

Member Nerd Out: Concrete Poetry and Asemic Writing

Zoom CA, United States

In this Member Nerd Out, we’ll guide you through our favorite examples of concrete poetry and asemic writing in the Letterform Archive collection. This presentation will be followed by an opportunity to show some objects from your own home with fellow letterform Nerds across the globe.

Featured Featured

Citizen Printer Exhibition Reception

Letterform Archive 2325 Third St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA, United States

Letterform Archive’s fifth gallery exhibition, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer, explores the bold language, graphic typography, and colorful layering in a wide variety of printed artifacts such as broadsides, maps, church fans, handbills and oversized posters produced throughout his career. Encompassing the evolving trajectory of Black liberation in the United States, from growing up in the ’60s during the […]