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A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Read more about #SeeRedWomensWorkshop in our book, Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest. letterformarchive.org/shop/striket...
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Poster screen printed in a single color (reddish brown). It shows a factory at the top with a line of people existing out the right side to the bottom of the poster where they are cared for by a conveyor belt of women, then the enter the left side of the factory.
See Red Women’s Workshop, Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labor screen print, London, 1975
In 1974, a group of feminist artists founded the See Red Women’s Workshop to address gender issues such as capitalism’s reliance on unpaid homekeeping and childrearing.
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Design in daily life
If you missed yesterday’s fabulous salon, the recording is now available: vimeo.com/1168257521?f...
We are so pleased with the overwhelming response to our latest book, Lettres Décoratives. Meet the author, Morgane Côme, in conversation with Sam Roberts of Better Letters, on Wed, Feb 25: letterformarchive.org/shop/salon-s... #Lettering #SignPainting #Typography
The campaign was a beautiful way to mark our anniversary online. Now it’s time to celebrate in person! Come party with us in San Francisco at Letterform Live! on March 14, 2026. letterformarchive.org/live/
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Featuring work from these brilliant folks who are on Bluesky: @christophniemann.bsky.social
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To mark our 10th anniversary we teamed up with COLLINS to create 100 Tens: 50 interpretations of the number 1 from the Archive, paired with 50 contributions from invited designers. Now you can see them all in one place on our blog: letterformarchive.org/news/100-ten...
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[SPOTTED] The new Type West 2025 student website.
Type West is a postgraduate certificate program in type design, taught in person at Letterform Archive ( @letterformarchive.org ) in San Francisco.
● More: typewest.letterformarchive.org/2025/
● Via: typo.social/@annie/11606...
Got your tickets for Letterform Live on March 14? It will be hosted by His Plaidness, @nicholowry.bsky.social of #AntiquesRoadshow! letterformarchive.org/live/
The #ATypI 2026 Stanford schedule is posted! atypi.org/conferences-...
Making travel plans? Save the date for a Letterform Archive open house on Sunday May 31, 10am–1pm. Details soon: letterformarchive.org/mail
huge congrats to the @letterformarchive.org type west class of 2025! a feast of creative type design typewest.letterformarchive.org/2025/
We have a copy for sale (though much rougher than yours): letterformarchive.org/shop/gebrauc...
We proudly share this ethos with our library peers in San Francisco:
– SFPL Book Arts sfpl.org/locations/ma...
– Prelinger Library prelingerlibrary.org
There’s a lot of talk about tech innovation around here, but it’s open orgs like these that keep the Bay’s creative engine running.
And anyone, regardless of their experience or background, can schedule a visit to see virtually anything in the Archive. Like all special collections libraries with open access, we exist not just to preserve rare things, but to share them: letterformarchive.org/visit/resear...
Introducing our first online tour in Hindi! Friday, Feb 6 with Tanya George.
लिखित संप्रेषण के इतिहास को दर्शाने वाली पुस्तकों, पत्रिकाओं, पोस्टरों, स्केचों, मूल कलाकृतियों और संबंधित अभिलेखों के एक चुने हुए संग्रह को एक्सप्लोर करें। टॉन्या जॉर्ज आपको लेटरफॉर्म आर्काइव के इस संग्रह से हिंदी में संचालित एक गाइडेड टूर के माध्यम से परिचित कराती हैं।
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But we haven’t given up on #SanFrancisco. Our galleries are still free every Thursday: letterformarchive.org/visit/
And you can join us for Letterform Live on March 14 to ensure the Archive remains open to all: letterformarchive.org/live/
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It can feel like our city is losing its artistic core. Along with shuttering of fellow galleries and museums, we were disheartened to see the loss of SFAI and California College of the Arts (and Crafts). These institutions raised folks who made this place weird and fun, interesting and beautiful.
Letterform Archive is closed today, January 30. We invite you to get inspiration from our Online Archive and Online Exhibitions.
Perhaps Strikethrough? exhibitions.letterformarchive.org/strikethrough/
Come party with @letterformarchive.org (and me) on March 14th! “Letterform Live” will celebrate 10 years of the Archive’s amazing work. Discounted early bird tickets are available until February 7th, so get them now. I hope I’ll see you there!
Thanks for thinking of us! We have a full run of U&lc, so we’re set. You may have luck selling the earlier issues on eBay.
André Jammes was immensely important in the building of the Wing collection at the #NewberryLibrary….
Yes! This was a popular French sign painter’s effect at the turn of the century.
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2. letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres...
Among other things, Esther (André’s daughter) sold us this incredible unfinished manuscript that serves as an excellent illustration of the steps in the process.
From our last visit to the shop in 2023.
