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Letterform Archive Images

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randomly sharing images from the thousands (27K+) over at the fabulous Letterform Archive

Emigre #64: Rant
Rudy VanderLans
Item date: 2003.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0064&targPic=lfa_emigre_0064_055.jpg

Emigre #64: Rant
144 pages, 5.25 x 8.25. Edition of 6,000. Co-published by Princeton Architectural Press. Printed at R.R. Donnelley and Sons in Harrisonburg, VA.

America Conquers Death
W. A. Dwiggins
Item date: 1928.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_dwiggins_0143&targPic=lfa_dwiggins_0143_016.jpg

America Conquers Death
30 pages

"Becker's Ornamental Penmanship. And Braughtsman's letter book."
G. I. Becker, H. Earle
Item date: 1941.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_writingmanuals_0105&targPic=lfa_writingmanuals_0105_014.jpg

"Becker's Ornamental Penmanship. And Braughtsman's letter book."
20th century reprint using original plates from 1854. Green cloth full binding; landscape format; excellent quality; ornamented gold lettering embossed on cover. Folded measurements: 20 x 31 cm.

Black book with comb binding
Aaron Marcus
Item date: 1960s.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_ama_0218&targPic=lfa_ama_0218_013.jpg

Black book with comb binding
"Small square book, comb binding, black board covers. Interior pages either board or transparencies, printed with the same shape resembling an angular capital ""G"" in black and white, with or without outlines, varying thicknesses, or grouped into larger square shape."

BlackDog Letterpress Reloaded
Suzanne Powney
Item date: 2015.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#poster #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_atypisp_0052&targPic=lfa_atypisp_0052_001.jpg

BlackDog Letterpress Reloaded
Red, yellow, black and grey ink on white paper; for Letterpress Reloaded exhibit at the ATypI conference in São Paulo, 2015.

Nouvel Album de Lettres Peintes
Paul Fleury
Item date: 1903.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#looseleaf #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_france_0003&targPic=lfa_france_0003_029.jpg

Nouvel Album de Lettres Peintes
Loose sheets in folded paper cover. Plates 3–33 and 34–38. Cover dimension: 46 x 32.

Die Klinger Type
Julius Klinger
Item date: 1926.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0735&targPic=lfa_type_0735_001.jpg

Die Klinger Type
"Cover: ""Die Klinger Type"" in black, orange and black border at left, abstract bird emblem at bottom right. Single sheet folded in two colors. Typeface designed 1925."

Emigre #67: Graphic design vs. style, globalism, criticism, science, authenticity, and humanism
Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko
Item date: 2004.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#periodical #magazine #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0067&targPic=lfa_emigre_0067_003.jpg

Emigre #67: Graphic design vs. style, globalism, criticism, science, authenticity, and humanism
144 pages, 5.25 x 8.25. Edition of 4,000. Co-published by Princeton Architectural Press. Printed at Friesens Corp. in Altona, Manitoba, Canada.

Die Gegenstandslose Welt (Bauhausbücher 11)
László Moholy-Nagy
Item date: 1927.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_bauhaus_0011&targPic=lfa_bauhaus_0011_045.jpg

Die Gegenstandslose Welt (Bauhausbücher 11)
Book, 104 pages. Hard cover with book jacket and sewn binding. Includes black and white photographs. One of fourteen volumes in the Bauhausbücher (Bauhaus Book) series organized by the Bauhaus.

The Five Columbia Type Series
Walter H. McKay
Item date: ca. 1960.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen:typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_1596&targPic=lfa_type_1596_004.jpg

The Five Columbia Type Series
Book, 24 pages. Saddle stitched. 3 color printing. Black, red, and gray ink.

Gargantua & Pantagruel
W. A. Dwiggins
Item date: 1936.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_dwiggins_0196&targPic=lfa_dwiggins_0196_017.jpg

Gargantua & Pantagruel
5 volume set of green hardcover books with color printed spines; in blue cardboard slipcase with illustration.

The Goudy Type Family
Item date: 1927.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0554&targPic=lfa_type_0554_034.jpg

The Goudy Type Family
"123 page book, olive green cover. ""THE GOUDY TYPE FAMILY"" in green ink, inside a black rectangle. ""A Composite Showing of Goudy Types."""

"Ondina"
Karl Kranke
Item date: 1935.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0752&targPic=lfa_type_0752_004.jpg

"Weber's Schön-Schreib Kunst."
Heinrich Hugo Cöntgen, Johann Gottfried Weber
Item date: 1780.
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#book #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_writingmanuals_0055&targPic=lfa_writingmanuals_0055_032.jpg

"Weber's Schön-Schreib Kunst."
"Allgemeine Anweisung der neusten Schönschreibkunsr des Lippischen Bottenmeisters und Aktuarius; Johann Gottfried Weber, für die Jugend hohen und niedern Standes, desgleichen: für andere Liebhaber einer schönen Feder und für Frauenzimmer Mit einer gedruckten Anweisung und beigefügten Orthografie; Im Verlag der Helwingschen Universitäts Buchhandlung zu Duisburg am Rhein.Book, 40 numbered plates. Hard marbled cover and leather binding. Gold embossed sticker label on cover; rounded and frayed corners. Measurements closed: 20 x 25 cm. Measurement open: 20 x 50 cm.English title translation: Weber's penman art. English translation of title page: General instruction of the newest calligraphic art of the court penman and actuary of Lippe; Johann Gottfried Weber, for the youth of high or low social class, aswell: for other lovers of the beautiful pen and for women; With a printed instruction and attached spelling; Publisher of the Helwingschen University Bookstore Duisburg am Rhein.Left: As far as the common good is concerned, all gifts are not seated in one place. Right: It alone had them all in existence, and this separation itself is the society's bond."

Bilderdijk Ornamenten
Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos
Item date: 1921.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen:typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_1728&targPic=lfa_type_1728_004.jpg

Bilderdijk Ornamenten
16 pages + cover (Red and black ink on dark gray cardboard paper)

Die Gebrauchs-Vignette in neuem Gewande!
Item date: 1922.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0804&targPic=lfa_type_0804_020.jpg

Die Gebrauchs-Vignette in neuem Gewande!
Cover: Large black and red illustration of workmen at press. Specimen booklet, 40 pages. in stiff illustrated wrappers. Printed in red and black.

Bauer Types
Item date: ca. 1935.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_1902&targPic=lfa_type_1902_041.jpg

Bauer Types
Specimen book, spiral bound, 164 pp, dark red cover.

The Power of Print––And Men
W. A. Dwiggins
Item date: 1936.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#book #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_dwiggins_0167&targPic=lfa_dwiggins_0167_007.jpg

The Power of Print––And Men
Book, 180 pages. Hardcover with abstract gray and brown paper cover. Interior includes illustrations by Dwiggins. Electra in use.

Newspaper Heads
Item date: 1919.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #boundspecimen #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0937&targPic=lfa_type_0937_005.jpg

Newspaper Heads
The first general section contains a catalog of all head-letter faces which can be set from the keyboard. The second is a collection of display pages showing head-letter settings, sub-heads, and body matter, every line of which can be produced from the keyboard - including the 48, 54, and 60 point heads.

Genzsch & Heyse
Eduard Ege
Item date: 1926.
Courtesy #LetterformArchive
#typespecimen #typeephemera #graphicdesign
highres: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_0370&targPic=lfa_type_0370_035.jpg

Genzsch & Heyse
Book. Green cover with black text and black illustrations. Contains ornaments. Includes four loose mock pieces inside, two of which are folded sheets of onionskin paper featuring Christmas ornaments.

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