On a drizzly December evening, Randall Ann Homan and Al Barna walked through the doors of an unassuming building tucked away on a quiet street in San Rafael and found themselves transported to another ...

When Letterform Archive opened in 2015, it became an immediate destination for lovers of typography and letters — it’s already had over 5,000 visitors from 30 countries. They come for letter-blocks, ...

What most people recognize as graffiti art arose in the late 1960s in such places as Philadelphia and especially New York, which, by the early to mid '70s, was the unofficial capital of an art form ...

An exhibition at San Francisco’s Letterform Archive highlights typography’s role in iconic social movements from the 1800s through the present. Munro, a surfer, paddled out with a group of others on ...

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. This month, we share work by Dutch designer ...

The legacy of the Bauhaus school’s graphic design has been vast, informing the likes of Kamekura Yusaku’s iconic Tokyo 1964 Olympics identity, with its condensed sans serif font; Malcolm Garrett’s ...