Curated by Jen Dao (姚逸雯) and Sherry Chou (徐雪俐)
Featuring work by:
Alice Lee
Bill Chow
Camille Chew
Christine Phan
Clarence Lee
Five Metal Shop
Masami Miyamoto
Molly Wu
Omnivore Inc.
Saiyre Illustration & Design
Typozon
Wan-Jou Lee
YiQi Hanzi
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Open now at Letterform Archive! GOOD LUCK is a vibrant celebration of Lunar New Year, a tradition that honors renewal, connection, and happiness.
This pop-up exhibition explores the rich cultural heritage and modern interpretations of Lunar New Year through custom red envelopes, holiday ephemera, and celebration event posters.
On view in the Reading Room during regular gallery hours; see http://lettarc.org/visit to plan your visit.
[#]ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear #ThingsToDoInSF
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Books!, written by Murray McCain, designed and illustrated by John Alcorn, 1962.
[#]LetterformArchive #ABC #MurrayMcCain #JohnAlcorn #Lettering #Illustration #1960s
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Tuesday, February 11! Join us for a FREE online lecture, Design Pioneers: African American Graphic Designers You Should Know with Glenford Laughton, founder of Laughton Creatves.
Back in the day, diversity in the field of graphic design was far from visible. In this talk, Laughton highlights Black graphic designers who have left an indelible mark on the field.
Free to attend; sign up to receive the link: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/design-pioneers-african-american-graphic-designers-you-should-know/
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Bob Dewhurst of Sign Language, hand-painted example of signpainters’ “drop casual”. Handwritten on back: “‘Drop Casual’ because of how you end the horizontals by twisting the brush off downwards… all the guys at New Bohemia Signs (@nbsigns) basically use this same one.” #SignPainting #Lettering #Alphabet
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“Friendship in Any Language” Promotional Plan Guide for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, featuring official mascot Sam the Olympic Eagle. Produced by Benditt & Hall Marketing, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company’s International Sales Promotion Department, 1980.
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Now at #FaceInterface, Eason Lu on "The Battle of Nüshu, or, how do we encode a performative script?" In 1982, Chinese anthropologists went to Hunan, found a script written, embroidered, and most importantly, performed, by women only.
More on Nüshu from @lisahuang’s 2021 Letterform Lecture: https://letterformarchive.org/events/view/nueshu-a-script-created-by-self-educated-women-in-a-remote-region-of-china/
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A video and more info about the book: https://vimeo.com/1031720525
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Just shown by @johndberry at #FaceInterface is an unusual example of multilingual typography: Tea Room: Abode of Fancy, Vacancy and the Unsymmetrical by Yasutomo Ota. We have a copy and it’s available in our Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_visuallanguage_0007&targPic=lfa_visuallanguage_0007_006.jpg
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John @TiroTypeworks Hudson at #FaceInterface with an excellent point about libraries: catalogs are useful, but librarians are essential. A catalog could not identify the books he needed for his project. Only a librarian with deep knowledge of the collection could guide him.
This is close to our hearts. https://letterformarchive.org/visit/research-visits/
[#]FaceInterface
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“Personal collections of ephemera such as this make Letterform Archive a singular resource: rare books and type specimens live in the stacks alongside punk flyers and chopstick sleeves. Few arts and cultural institutions treat both valuable and everyday objects with equal reverence. At the Archive, ephemera are no longer quite so ephemeral.”
https://letterformarchive.org/news/this-just-in-chopstick-sleeves-as-emissaries-of-japanese-typography-and-culture/
[#]Ephemera #Libraries #Museums #GraphicDesign #Typography #JapaneseDesign
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United States Postal Service Corporate Identification Guidelines, 1971.
“The prime elements in [the service mark] are the eagle and the red/white/blue ‘U. S. Mail’. The eagle will be used as a right-facing symbol on all communications except where a directional motion is involved (Examples: the letter carriers’ shoulder patch, or the emblem on the left side of vehicles.)”
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Learn more: https://letterformarchive.org/news/milwaukee-transit-passes/
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Details from various Milwaukee transit tickets, 1940–57 (2/2)
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Details from various Milwaukee transit tickets, 1940–57 (1/2)
[#]LetterformArchive #MilwaukeeTransit #Ephemera
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Happy birthday to design legend Massimo Vignelli (1931–2014), born on this day 94 years ago.
Pictured is the graphic standards manual for the textile company Texfi, the symbol for which was designed by Vignelli Associates in 1972.
“The symbol for a textile company expresses the essence of weaving: crossing threads to make patterns. Every time you look at it you find a new pattern.” — design: Vignelli, Rizzoli, 1990, p. 33
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Starting online in a few minutes! https://letterformarchive.org/shop/salon-series-53-citizen-printer-in-conversation/
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Campaign button for Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, who won the presidency in 1976 over Republican incumbent Gerald R. Ford.
As seen in The Oliver Stone Experience by Matt Zoller Seitz (designed by Martin Venezky), Abrams, 2016.
[#]LetterformArchive #JimmyCarter #CampaignButton #Ephemera
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FFF (Filipino Folk Foundry) is a book about sign painting and lettering in the Philippines, with profiles of practitioners and other documentation and resources. (2015, 2nd edition).
Edited by Lobregat Balaguer
Designed by Dante Carlos and Kristian Henson
Published by Hardworking, Goodlooking
[#]FilipinoFolkFoundry #HardworkingGoodlooking #Philippines #FilipinoArt #Graffiti #Signpainting #Lettering
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