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ca. 1950
ca. 1970
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ca. 1996
ca. 1960
ca. 1940s
ca. 1930s
ca. 1930
ca. 1950s
ca. 1900
ca. 1965
ca. 1938
between 1965 and 1980
ca. 1707
2,300 BCE
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1987
2001
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2012
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2019
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Medium
Artist Book
Banner
Book
Branding Guidelines
Cut Slate
Ephemera
Flyer
Periodical
Phototypesetting Machine
Poster
Type Specimen
Location
Amsterdam
Athens
Bangkok
Barcelona
Basel
Beijing
Berkeley
Bowen Island
Cambridgeshire
Chicago
Doogort
Hangzhou
Hingham
Hyogo
Iowa City
Kalamazoo
Karachi
Kashmir
Location Unknown
London
Lyon
Mexico City
Milan
Milwaukee
Moscow
Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
Münchenstein
New York
Newport
Oakland, California
Offenbach
Paris
Parma
Prague
Rio de Janeiro
Rochester
Rotterdam
San Cristobal
San Francisco
Santa Clara
Seattle
Seoul
The Hague
Tokyo
Venice
Artist
Alphonse Mucha
April GreimanJayme Odgers
Arne Wolf
Arnold Bank
Atélier Populaire
Barney Bubbles (Colin Fulcher)Eric Stodge (David Wills)
Charles Gilbert
Charles Henri Ford
Corita Kent
DDBBMM (formerly known as kimgarden)
David Lance Goines
Design Action Collective (Designer)Inkworks Press (Printer)
Designer Unknown
Eunjoo HongHyungjae Kim
Everyday Practice
Fortunato Depero
Franticham at Redfoxpress
Giovanni Battista Guarini (Author)Giambattista Bodoni (Printer)
Guillaume Apollinaire
Gujarati Type Foundry
Gwenael Rattke
Halah Khan
Hansje van Halem
Iliazd
Irma Boom
Islam Aly
J. RichardP. Audibert
J.C. de Widt
JIAZAZHI 假杂志
Jacinto J. Quirarte
Jami (Author)Scribe Unknown
Jan van de Velde I
Japan Sumo Association
Joan TrochutFundición Tipografica Iranzo
John E. Benson
Jumping He
Jurriaan Schrofer
Karel Martens
Keith Godard
Ladislav Sutnar
Lehmann Printing and Lithography Company
Lester Beall
Louis Barbedor
Marian Bantjes
Martin Venezky
Mieke GerritzenGeert Lovink
Morisawa Bunken Inc. (Later merged into Morisawa Inc.)
Naïma Ben Ayed BureauPublished by Alphabettes with contributors from all over the world
OSPAAAL
Obiora Nwazota (Author)Lucie Van der Elst (Illustrator)Span Studio (Designer)
Paul Rand
Phillip Gallo
R.R Gaikwad
Ram Dass
Reginald Dwayne BettsTitus Kaphar
Richard DanneBruce Blackburn
Romano Hanni
Ross George
SP.One
Saneh Thanaratsarit
Shitamachi Times
Sigrid Calon
Stephanie Adams-SantosRen Allathkani
Steve Tupper (designer), Jacy Webster (illustrator)
Su-yong Kim 김수영 (Author)Xianlu Yi (Book Designer)
Tauba Auerbach
The Coca-Cola Company
Thomas Ingmire
Unknown
Uthman b. Umar ibn Al-Hâjib
Vera Evstafieva
Victor Moscoso
W. A. Dwiggins
Ward Schumaker
Warja Lavater
Will Weber
Wlademir Dias-PinoJoão Felício dos Santos
Ximena Pérez Grobet
Zdeněk Ziegler
fierce pussy
Татьяна Алексеевна Маврина (Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina)
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10 × 10 for 10: Ten years of Letterform Archive. One hundred objects of typographic design.
The Foundation
Cuneiform Tablet
Depero Futurista "The Bolted Book"
Spieghel der Schryfkonste...(Mirror of the Art of Writing)
Pastor Fido
“How Will It Print?” Original Lettering
Das Hohe Lied Salomonis
How to Show Telephone Numbers on Letterheads
Ledentu le Phare (Ledentu as a Beacon)
Calligrammes
Prière Chrétiennes Pour Monsieur de Bonneil (Manuscript Book of Hours)
Admin/Finance
Be Here Now (Remember, Be Here Now)
双喜 (Until Death Do Us Part)
Magicians Club Seattle Matchbook
International Inn SF Matchbook
Dead Kennedys, Zeros, and Young Adults at the Mabuhay Gardens
Flipper Get Away b/w
Untitled Miniature Alphabet Book
allotropes
Collections
Cours de Théorie pour le Tissage (Weaving Theory Course)
Milwaukee Transit Ticket 1937 No. 16
Redaction
دُعا / Dua (Prayer)
A Marca e o Logotipo Brasileiros
Abundancia: Catálogo de las Colecciones de Piezas Super-Veloz
NASA: Graphic Standards Manual
Spare Parts
Passport of Witness
White Persimmon
Curatorial
Free Huey Banner
प्रेम संगीत (Prem Sangeet) Movie Poster
Flashdance Movie Poster
Cut Slate Demonstrating Four Stages of Inscription: Painting, Initial Cutting, Finished Cutting, Gold Leaf
อักษรวิจิตร (Decorative Lettering)
Glass Font for “MB31” Phototypesetting Machine
Los caballos negros son. Las herraduras son negras.
Untitled Example of Original Micrography
Just Hangin’ Out
El Bazaar Sabado Poster
Education
番付表 banzukehyō (Sumo wrestler rankings)
江戸祭り暦 (Edo Festival Information)
WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing Vol 4. No. 2
Сказочная азбука (Fairy Tale Alphabet)
San Francisco Reverberation
Fortune Magazine Cover Study
Existence is Unhappiness
SCOPE Vol. 2 No. 7
SCOPE Vol. 2 No. 10
SCOPE Vol. 2 No. 12
Exhibitions
Grand Valley State University Poster
Jet van Oosten Exhibition Poster
SC_1/1_1/2_1/4_1/8
Schrofer Sketches
Reprint
Ribbon Calligraphy Metallic Typeface Specimen Poster
Mad Pride Seoul Poster
Rest Forest 2019 Poster
Great Legacies of the Past Meet Today Poster
CHiDM: Something Impossible
Marketing
Coca-Cola: Advertising Manual
Pink Panther, Miller Blues Band, Daily Flash, and The Doors at Avalon Ballroom Poster
Cliff House Matchbook
Rainbow Room Matchbook
Pony Brand Prepared Mustard Label
Hollywood Orange Dry Label
Motel California
Chez Panisse Cookbook Poster
Mark Hopkins Hotel Luggage Label
Uncut Print of Two Works: Come Alive & Life Is a Complicated Business
Publishing
The Complete Commercial Artist Vol. 12
Le Pater
No. 5 Culture Chanel
daydream
Christmas Woman Poster
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood)
Typo Bilder Buch
Helvetica Type Specimen
Modelès de Lettres; Extraits Journal Manuel de Peintures Vol. 2
Mars Attacks the World Movie Banner
Docents
Type Book
Ceasefire Now!
Nkemdiche (Mine is Different): Why We Do Not Grow Beards
Words
For the Record
Everyone is a Designer! Manifest for the Design Economy
풀, 김수영 (Grass, Kim Su-yong)
The Square
Solidarity with the African American People
Sounds
Type West
Ain’t No Border High Enough
Jornada de Solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina
La Beauté est dans la Rue
Heartbeat Law (from the series Trump Papers (Hoisted by His Own Petard ))
Vive La Plume
Les Ecritures
Calligraphic Alphabet
Yusuf and Zulaikha Manuscript
Manuscript with Commentary on Al-Kafiya
Marginalia VI
10 × 10 for 10 is a Letterform Archive Exhibition