A crowd-sourced virtual archive of inclusive graphic design history. The Archive celebrates everyday design and includes everything from finished projects to process, photos, correspondence, oral histories, anecdotes, articles, essays, and other supporting material. Browse for research, inspiration or just for fun!
From the dawn of writing until today, including the development of handwriting, history of type faces, history of books, Arts & Crafts and the Private Press, Posters, Printing History, History of Advertising, The Bauhaus, Digital Design and Digital Typography. Created by Nancy Stock-Allen.
Based in San Francisco, Letterform Archive is a nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community. It preserves important artifacts in the history of letterforms and graphic design, and it strives to actively share them with the public. A recent addition includes a digitized collection of Bauhaus books and magazines.
