When Letterform Archive opened in 2015, it became an immediate destination for lovers of typography and letters — it’s already had over 5,000 visitors from 30 countries. They come for letter-blocks, ...
An exhibition at San Francisco’s Letterform Archive highlights typography’s role in iconic social movements from the 1800s through the present. Munro, a surfer, paddled out with a group of others on ...
What most people recognize as graffiti art arose in the late 1960s in such places as Philadelphia and especially New York, which, by the early to mid '70s, was the unofficial capital of an art form ...
Typeface (such as Times New Roman) refers to the design that gives a set of letters, numbers, and symbols their signature “look”. Font, on the other hand, is a specific implementation of a typeface, ...
The legacy of the Bauhaus school’s graphic design has been vast, informing the likes of Kamekura Yusaku’s iconic Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity, with its condensed sans serif font; Malcolm Garrett’s ...