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 Archive’s collection, paired with 50 contributions from some of the most admired designers working today.
We sent out a call to folks we admire—from type designers like Zuzana Licko and Lucas Sharp, to lettering artists and calligraphers like Julien Priez and Petra Dočekalová, from graphic designers like Bráulio Amado and Marian Bantjes, to illustrators like Christoph Niemann and Susan Kare. What we got back was pure delight. The creativity and range of the submissions astounded us.
In this online event we’ll hear directly from creatives from multiple spots around the globe who contributed to the campaign. They’ll share their submissions, and the processes, inspirations, and obsessions that shaped them.
We’ll also present a few of the design artifacts from the Archive’s collection—from Gutenberg to Rand—that complete the 100 Tens. It’s a total celebration of typographic design, old and new.
The Past is Always Present lecture series is part of The 10th Anniversary Symposium celebrating ten years of Letterform Archive.
This event will be recorded. Please register for the event and you will receive an email when the video is available.