Join us for our Salon Series, where Letterform Archive staff invites you to experience materials related to a specific topic of interest to the collection.
The Letterform Archive collection is filled with examples of fonts and letters that were resurrected in surprising ways. This month, Associate Curator & Editorial Director Stephen Coles presents a variety of specimens that continue to serve their purpose centuries after they were made. See firsthand how ornamental styles of the Victorian era got a groovy new life in the 1970s, how Marcel Duchamp appropriated a 19th-century French alphabet exactly one hundred years after it first appeared, how Emigre’s fonts reconstructed historical types for a new digital world, and more.
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The Letterform Archive collection is filled with examples of fonts and letters that were resurrected in surprising ways. This month, Associate Curator & Editorial Director Stephen Coles presents a variety of specimens that continue to serve their purpose centuries after they were made. See firsthand how ornamental styles of the Victorian era got a groovy new life in the 1970s, how Marcel Duchamp appropriated a 19th-century French alphabet exactly one hundred years after it first appeared, how Emigre’s fonts reconstructed historical types for a new digital world, and more.
Join us for our Salon Series, where Letterform Archive staff invites you to experience materials related to a specific topic of interest to the collection.
The Letterform Archive collection is filled with examples of fonts and letters that were resurrected in surprising ways. This month, Associate Curator & Editorial Director Stephen Coles presents a variety of specimens that continue to serve their purpose centuries after they were made. See firsthand how ornamental styles of the Victorian era got a groovy new life in the 1970s, how Marcel Duchamp appropriated a 19th-century French alphabet exactly one hundred years after it first appeared, how Emigre’s fonts reconstructed historical types for a new digital world, and more.
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The Letterform Archive collection is filled with examples of fonts and letters that were resurrected in surprising ways. This month, Associate Curator & Editorial Director Stephen Coles presents a variety of specimens that continue to serve their purpose centuries after they were made. See firsthand how ornamental styles of the Victorian era got a groovy new life in the 1970s, how Marcel Duchamp appropriated a 19th-century French alphabet exactly one hundred years after it first appeared, how Emigre’s fonts reconstructed historical types for a new digital world, and more.
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