Travel back in time at the New York Public Library where curators Elizabeth Denlinger and Charles Cuykendall Carter will show us some of the NYPL’s Pforzheimer Collection’s rich compilation of 18th and 19th century books and ephemera. The Pforzheimer Collection was the creation of the financier Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), who took a special interest […]
The Bauhaus was the world’s most famous art school, and Herbert Bayer (1900–1985) was its most prolific graphic designer. This talk, which features up-close images from the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and from the Merrill C. Berman Collection and Display, Graphic Design Collection, delves into Bayer’s unique design methods and the theories […]
On April 7, when Letterform Archive launched its Online Archive, a free online resource to all who love letters, no one suspected that it would break the internet! After one month, two server crashes, and over 200,000 hits, Online Archive continues to grow into one of the most comprehensive graphic design archives to focus on […]
Armin Vit will share his screen and take us through his logo design exploration process in Adobe Illustrator, demonstrating how he goes from crappy idea to less crappy idea to showable idea. Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin Vit is a graphic designer and writer now living in Bloomington, Indiana. He is co-founder of […]
Anne Quito will talk about her process of writing and editing, Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines, a book about the glory days of magazine design as told by graphic design legends Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard. For this special live event, Walter Bernard will join Anne. For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard […]
Join Able Parris as he leads a hands-on workshop to explore cut paper collage using typographic sources. Whether you are looking for new approaches to your design practice, or would like to create original works of art, this workshop will guide you in the destruction and reclamation of various text-based imagery. Able Parris is a […]
Join author, illustrator, and designer Ross MacDonald as we tour his Brightwork Press studio and letterpress shop in Connecticut. On view will be Ross’ extensive collection of wood type, dating back to the some of the earliest cut by hand, as well as examples of period props that he has made, printed, and designed for […]
Join Poster House Chief Curator, Angelina Lippert, as she talks about the history of the PSA (Public Service Announcement) poster. From Tuberculosis to Loose Lips Sink Ships, Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires to Silence = Death, she'll explore a wide array of topics and methods that have been used to disseminate information to the public […]
After their son was born in 2013, Ned and Brenda began to conceive of a meaningful purpose for the collection of type, woodblocks, and line-engraved images that they have been amassing for 20+ years. They decided to create a learning tool, a unique letterpress book of ABCs that took five years to make. The project […]
How have ideas about typography been shaped by culture and technology over the last three centuries, and what is Gretel’s approach today? Dylan Mulvaney is Head of Design at Gretel. His expertise lies in translating core values, strategy, and voice into striking visual executions for clients like Vice, Netflix, Knoll, and MoMA. His work has […]