Letterform Archive Books
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Lettres D?coratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets
$65.00 Add to cartAn immersive look inside 12 colorful alphabet albums used by 19th- and early 20th-century French sign painters
Beginning in the 19th century, sign painters adorned the streets and storefronts of Frenc
- Author: Come, Morgane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798989142392
- Language: English
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Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Sista Said: Words of Wisdom from Women of Color in Social Justice & the Arts
$22.95 Add to cartTwo sets of 20 unique letterpress postcards featuring quotes by iconic Black women, from Audre Lorde to Octavia Butler
This freshly commissioned set of postcards from the Detroit-based letterpress prin
- Author: Kennedy Jr, Amos Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Nkf: Piet Zwart’s Avant-Garde Catalog for Standard Cables: 1927-1928
$60.00 Add to cartA graphic design masterpiece held in museum collections worldwide, now recreated in full facsimile
Widely regarded as the most important Dutch designer of the last century, Piet Zwart helped rewrite th
- Author: Zwart, Piet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989142316
- Language: English
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Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens 1986-2024
$75.00 Add to cartA 1,500-page compendium containing nearly five decades of remarkable print ephemera from a trailblazing digital type foundry
Emigre is a graphic design and digital type foundry based in Berkeley, Calif
- Author: VanderLans, Rudy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1264
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798989142361
- Language: English
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Growing Up in Alphabet City: The Unexpected Letterform Art of Michael Doret
$60.00 Read moreA visual autobiography from the lettering legend behind iconic artwork for Kiss, Disney, the Knicks and many more
In this vivid and humorous monograph-meets-memoir, Los Angeles-based lettering supremo
- Author: Doret, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1736863320
- Language: English
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The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928-1930
$60.00 Read moreA revelatory, beautifully produced compendium of the influential Japanese commercial design journal, with posters, billboards, shop window displays and more
From 1928 to 1930, Tokyo publisher Ars issue
- Author: Weisenfeld, Gennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1736863347
- Language: English
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Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer
$60.00 Read moreCelebrating the storied career of a beloved letterpress printer whose posters spread messages of racial justice
Detroit-based letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is celebrated for his type-drive
- Author: Kennedy Jr, Amos Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 173686338X
- Language: English
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Bauhaus Typography at 100
$45.00 Read moreAn unprecedented, definitive look at the school’s typography and print design, from its early expressive tendencies to the functional modernism for which it is famed today
The Bauhaus looms large as on
- Author: Lupton, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0998318094
- Language: English
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Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest
$45.00 Add to cartA powerful new exploration of the uses of lettering, type and design to amplify resistance and inspire change–from 19th-century antislavery broadsides to the “Silence = Death” graphics of the AIDS ep
- Author: Munro, Silas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1736863304
- Language: English
