Letter Love: 40 Postcards from the Collection of Letterform Archive
Typographic treats in the form of perforated pull-out postcards including works by design giants Saul Bass, Seymour Chwast and Takenobu Igarashi
San Francisco museum Letterform Archive boasts a curated collection of over 100,000 items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy and graphic design that spans the history of the written and printed word. Letter Love shares the collection with a full alphabet sourced from across its holdings, plus 10 numerals and four punctuation marks. Each postcard features a scene-stealing character by design favorites including Saul Bass, Seymour Chwast, Hansje van Halem, Imre Reiner, Jean Midolle, Takenobu Igarashi and Hermann Zapf. Printed with metallic ink and presented in a unique perforated booklet, the postcards tear off to reveal an illustrated catalog that shares reproductions and details about the art. Both delightful and practical, Letter Love makes an ideal gift for design and lettering enthusiasts. Artists and designers include: Vincent de Boer, Armin Haab, Peter Malutzki, Hans Donner, Sylvia Trenker, Julien Priez, Angel de Cora, Tauba Auerbach, Maurice Dufrčne, Tezzo Suzuki, Kuwayama Yasaburo, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, James Edmondson, Ross F. George, Roger Excoffon.
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Friends, this Valentine’s Day week, we couldn’t resist. Pictured here are four of the forty pull-out postcards included in Letterform Archive’s archival typography book, Letter Love. Highlighting one far-out yet beloved example of each of the 26 letters of the alphabet plus the numbers 1–10 and a few key symbols, this perforated cardboard paperback is drawing from more than 100,000 items in Letterform Archive’s deeply researched collection. The stars of today’s show include the letter L from the alphabet Calder, 1952, Switzerland, by Armin Haab & Walter Haettenschweiler; the letter O from the alphabet Ornamental Riband, date unknown, by an unknown designer at Freeman Delamotte engraver, compiled in 1905, Chicago; the letter V from an unnamed alphabet, as seen in Ornate Colored Alphabets, 1883, Weimar; and the letter E from the typeface Four-Line Pica Ornamented, date unknown, as seen in the type specimen catalog Bruce’s New York Type Foundry, 1882, New York. Other designs are by Vincent de Boer, Peter Malutzki, Sylvia Trenker, Tauba Auerbach, Tezzo Suzuki, Kuwayama Yasaburo, Milton Glaser and Paul Rand, among others. continue to blog
Letter Love: 40 Postcards from the Collection of Letterform Archive
Published by Letterform Archive Books.
Typographic treats in the form of perforated pull-out postcards including works by design giants Saul Bass, Seymour Chwast and Takenobu Igarashi
San Francisco museum Letterform Archive boasts a curated collection of over 100,000 items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy and graphic design that spans the history of the written and printed word. Letter Love shares the collection with a full alphabet sourced from across its holdings, plus 10 numerals and four punctuation marks. Each postcard features a scene-stealing character by design favorites including Saul Bass, Seymour Chwast, Hansje van Halem, Imre Reiner, Jean Midolle, Takenobu Igarashi and Hermann Zapf. Printed with metallic ink and presented in a unique perforated booklet, the postcards tear off to reveal an illustrated catalog that shares reproductions and details about the art. Both delightful and practical, Letter Love makes an ideal gift for design and lettering enthusiasts.
Artists and designers include: Vincent de Boer, Armin Haab, Peter Malutzki, Hans Donner, Sylvia Trenker, Julien Priez, Angel de Cora, Tauba Auerbach, Maurice Dufrčne, Tezzo Suzuki, Kuwayama Yasaburo, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, James Edmondson, Ross F. George, Roger Excoffon.
