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A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Our final batch of 100 Tens features contributions from this brilliant bundle of designers:⁠

Lucas Sharp⁠
Matthijs Herzberg⁠ @herzberg.bsky.social
Nolan Pelletier⁠ @nolanpelletier.bsky.social
Craig Frazier⁠
Oded Ezer⁠
Christoph Niemann⁠ @christophniemann.bsky.social
Petra Dočekalová
Susan Kare⁠…
October 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
We continue rolling through 100 Tens to celebrate 10 years of Letterform Archive. This group includes contributions from:⁠

James Goggin⁠ @practise.bsky.social
Jean-Benoit Levy
Jennifer Morla⁠
John Stevens⁠
Tezzo Suzuki
Juan Villanueva⁠
Julien Priez⁠ @boogypaper.bsky.social

#100Tens
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
100 Tens—our multi-day fest for 10 years of Letterform Archive—spins on! This segment features contributions from:⁠

Carl Rohrs⁠
Dinamo⁠ @abcdinamo.bsky.social
Erik Van Blokland⁠ @letterror.bsky.social
Zuzana Licko⁠
Design is Play⁠
Franziska Weitgruber⁠
Ganzeer⁠ @ganzeer.bsky.social

#100Tens
October 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
We’re celebrating 10 years of Letterform Archive with #100Tens. This segment features contributions from:⁠

Thomas Ingmire⁠
Michael Schwab⁠
Sean Adams⁠
Mark SImonson @marksimonson.bsky.social
Alejandro Chavetta
Clement Mok
Marian Bantjes

alongside items from the Archive’s collection by:⁠
October 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Our 10th birthday party continues with a subset of the “100 Tens”. This clip includes a wide range of fabulous 1s contributed by:⁠

Antic-Ham and Francis Van Maele of Redfoxpress⁠
Laura Serra @laureola.bsky.social
Laura Meseguer @laurameseguer.bsky.social
Martin Venezky @martinvenezky.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive partnered with the San Francisco office of COLLINS on 100 Tens — 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection paired with 50 new works from a range of today’s leading designers.

#LetterformArchive #100Tens
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Letterform Archive is a living archive, a perpetual project to not only preserve historic design, but to inspire new work. To mark our 10th anniversary we teamed up with COLLINS to create 100 Tens: 50 interpretations of the number “1” from the collection, paired with 50 contributions living artists.
September 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Recently we hosted a tour of Arabic calligraphy and type with Sabiha Basrai, Letterform Archive docent and co-owner of Design Action Collective.

Sabiha’s next tour is Design and Social Justice on July 11: letterformarchive.org/shop/collect...

#LetterformArchive #DecolonizingDesign #DesignMuseums
June 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It also presents and preserves the pre-digital process of custom lettering―from initial pencil sketches to printer mechanicals to final art (plus some spurned client proposals for good measure).⁠

Leaen more and get the book: letterformarchive.org/shop/doret/?...
June 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM