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Letterform Archive

Name: Letterform Archive
Address: 2325 Third Street Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA, 94107, US
Telephone: +14158027485
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A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in graphic design and type. We are open to all who love letters.

Letterform Archive is a nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community.

10/13/2026

This is your friendly reminder to RSVP to our upcoming in-person salon, Type and Materiality, hosted by Martin Venezky, happening in our Reading Room gallery on October 22nd, 6pm PST! ⁠
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If you can’t make it to the salon, Martin Venezky: Process Work will still be on display until November 8th! Come and experience the behind-the-scenes work that demonstrates how creating and manipulating physical forms are central to his process, and take a look at a collection of new photographic experiments straight from Venezky’s own personal archives.⁠
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https://letterformarchive.org/shop/type-and-materiality/?sku=EVENT_SS_26-10-23-GE
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10/10/2026

Get ready to fall in love with ambigrams! This talk will break down their mysteries, giving you a new perspective on letters.⁠
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Rotate: The Art Of The Ambigram with Nikita Prokhorov ⁠
Saturday, October 27, 2026 ⁠
12:00PM-1:30PM PST⁠
Online via Zoom⁠
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How can words turn upside down and still make sense? Join award-winning lettering artist and graphic designer Nikita Prokhorov for a deep dive into the wonderful world of ambigrams. We’ll uncover all—or at least most!—of their mysteries, break down the design process into clear bite-size steps, and explore connections between ambigrams, typography, and lettering. With several in-depth case studies, you’ll see how ordinary words can turn into beautiful ambigrams that will push the boundaries of typography.⁠
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Sign Up: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/rotate-the-art-of-the-ambigram/?sku=EVENT_LL_26-10-27-FR
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10/09/2026

The Black Panther, October 4, 1971, Back cover; promoting black businesses⁠
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In 1966, the Black Panther Party was born in Oakland out of necessity. Police violence, economic exploitation, and systemic neglect were not abstract conditions—they were daily realities shaping Black life. The Panthers named these conditions for what they were and moved to change them. They studied, they organized, and they built—not to be included in a system that oppressed them, but to transform it. ⁠
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Read our 2017 interview with Emory Douglas: https://letterformarchive.org/news/emory-douglas-and-the-black-panther/
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10/08/2026

Mikey, Sleek type specimen, Vietnam, 2025

Attend Type West and go from type lover to type designer in just one year! Whether you're a prospective in-person or online student, these Open Houses are a great opportunity to learn more about the program directly from instructors and staff members here at Letterform Archive.

Applications are open until November 2nd. Support for Type West made possible through the generosity of the Small Foundry Fund and an anonymous donor.

https://letterformarchive.org/type-west/

10/07/2026

Now available for pre-order! Letterform Archive’s latest publication: Super-Veloz: Joan Trochut’s Modular Modernism and the Dream of Typographic Abundance in Spain, 1930–1955 by Alex Trochut and Andreu Balius.⁠
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The richly illustrated story of the Spanish modular typeface that made printers into artists and brought movement to moveable type.⁠
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In this book, Alex Trochut (designer and grandson of Joan Trochut, Super-Veloz’s creator) and Andreu Balius(type designer and researcher) tell the fascinating story of Super-Veloz alongside more than 150 reproductions from the Trochuts’ albums of the 1940s and ’50s, plus never-before-seen drawings and sketches, foundry ephemera, and archival photographs. With a foreword by Alexander Tochilovsky and carefully researched guides to the reproductions, Super-Veloz is the definitive work on the twentieth-century’s most multitalented typeface.⁠
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Pre-order your copy today: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/super-veloz/
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10/06/2026

The Curator at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich examines typography from their exhibit “Avant-Garde—Graphic Design on the Rise.”

Typography of the Avant-Garde with Dr. Bettina Richter
Fri, Oct 30, 2026
10:00am–11:30am PT (6:00pm–7:30pm CET)
Online via Zoom

This salon places special emphasis on the development of typography into an independent medium of design. The visual poetry of around 1900, the image-text collages of the Cubists, and the linguistic and typographic experiments of the Dadaists and Futurists inspired typeface design after 1920.

This online lecture will be illustrated with selected examples, particularly from the poster collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. https://letterformarchive.org/shop/typography-of-the-avant-garde/?sku=EVENT_SE_26-10-30-GE

10/05/2026

Don't miss this very special docent-lead tour with Milosh Sokolikj this Thursday!

While concrete poetry is a fairly modern term, the practice of merging typographic composition with poetry is millennia-old. This tour provides glimpses into this rich art form, starting with its predecessors and some of the earliest examples, moving to iconic objects, and bringing us to today's landscape and the question—what's next?

Collections Tour: Concrete Poetry with Milosh Sokolikj
Thu, Oct 8, 2026
10:00am–11:30am PT (6:00pm–7:30pm GMT)
Online via Zoom

Sign up here: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/collections-tour-concrete-poetry/?sku=EVENT_IT_26-10-08-GE

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10/03/2026

First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament is a landmark work of international design history, offering a dazzling study of surface patterns from a wide range of cultural traditions. ⁠
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Grammar of Ornament Creative Papers gathers selections from this substantial edition as an assortment of sixteen oversize perforated sheets to use as posters, wrapping paper, and more, facilitating a new generation in their decorative pursuits.⁠
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https://letterformarchive.org/shop/grammar-of-ornament-creative-papers/
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10/01/2026

Discover the riches of Letterform Archive’s vast collection in this online, guided tour exclusively in Hindi!⁠
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संग्रह का दौरा: लेटरफॉर्म आर्काइव का परिचय हिंदी में। (Collections Tour: Intro to the Archive in Hindi)⁠
with Tanya George⁠
Fri, Oct 23, 2026⁠
5:30pm–7pm IST (4:00am–5:30am PT)⁠
Online via Zoom⁠
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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। इस यात्रा में आप लेखन की उत्पत्ति और मध्यकालीन पांडुलिपियों से लेकर मुद्रण के आगमन और डिजिटल टाइप के प्रसार तक की कहानी जानेंगे। यह संग्रह मानव सभ्यता और लिखित अभिव्यक्ति के बीच सदियों से चले आ रहे संबंध को उजागर करता है। यह टूर डिज़ाइन, भाषा और संस्कृति के आपसी संवाद को समझने का एक अवसर भी है।⁠
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यह ऑनलाइन टूर हिंदी में होगा और इसे हमारी व्याख्याता, टॉन्या जॉर्ज होस्ट करेंगी।⁠
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Explore a curated collection of books, magazines, posters, sketches, original artifacts, and related records that illustrate the history of written communication. Tanya George introduces you to the Archive’s collection through a guided tour conducted in Hindi. On this journey, you will learn the story of writing, from its origins and medieval manuscripts to the advent of printing and the spread of digital type. This collection reveals the centuries-long connection between human civilization and written expression. This tour also offers an opportunity to understand the interplay between design, language, and culture.⁠
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https://letterformarchive.org/shop/collections-tour-intro-to-the-archive-in-hindi/?sku=EVENT_IT_26-10-23-GE
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09/29/2026

Martin Venezky, CCA The Graduate Program in Design Thesis Card 2009 postcard, Appetite Engineers; United States, 2009⁠
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See more work from Martin Venezky on display in our Reading Room gallery now until Nov 8, 2026. See what is currently on display at the Archive: https://letterformarchive.org/visit/
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2325 Third Street Floor 4R
San Francisco, CA
94107

Opening Hours

Thursday	1pm - 8pm
Friday	11am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm
Sunday	11am - 6pm

Telephone

+14158027485

Website

https://letterformarchive.org/

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