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May 09, 2017
First Look: Ed Benguiat
We were so pleased to receive work from legendary typographer Ed Benguiat, including original lettering and print samples of his typefaces in action.
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August 17, 2014
Type cast
Some type-based design from Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast.
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March 23, 2014
Henry Wolf on typography
In 1958 Henry Wolf, newly appointed art director for Harper’s Bazaar, was tapped by the Advertising Typographers Association to write an essay on magazine typography for their bulletin.
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March 03, 2014
That New York
Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Geismar’s expressive typography for The Composing Room.
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November 24, 2013
Love and joy about letters
Love and Joy About Letters is a testament to Ben Shahn’s love affair with letters: the beauty of the letter forms, the liberating influence hand-lettering, and how the incorporation of letters added meaning to his art.
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October 28, 2013
A brief tour of Milton Glaser’s typography
Glaser’s typefaces combine Push Pin-era Deco motifs with conventions adapted from hand-painted signs, but share a tendency to imbue generic letterforms with geometric dimension.
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June 15, 2013
How does one become an Emigre?
Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko’s Emigre defined the look of new media that emerged with the proliferation of the personal computer.
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May 14, 2013
The Composing Room type specimens
Some more examples of The Composing Room’s elegant type specimens series Typography and Paper after the jump.
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January 03, 2013
Push Pin and the P-Head
From the Push Pin Slide Collection: what appears to be a study for an alphabet based on the 1971 PBS identity designed by Lubalin Studio.
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April 03, 2009
P22 Type Foundry, Toy Box extras
The P22 Type Foundry, based in Buffalo, New York, packaged a typeface called Toy Box (originally named Child’s Play) with a set of extra glyphs including a collection of animal line-drawings based on children’s drawings. Commissioned by the London Transport Museum for a children’s exhibition in 1996, it was digitized by P22 founder Richard Kegler, with Michael Want, Mariah Kegler, Kevin Kegler, and Jennifer Kirwin-Want. Steven Heller included it in his book as an example of vernacular type.
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By Collection
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SVA Historical Event Recordings
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Gail Anderson Collection
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SVA COVID Collection
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Ed Benguiat Collection
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SVA Publications and Institutional Records
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Ivan Chermayeff Collection
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Ralph Caplan Collection
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Chermayeff & Geismar Collection
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Seymour Chwast Collection
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Stephen Doyle Collection
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Heinz Edelmann Collection
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Richard Wilde Papers
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Roger Ferriter Collection
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Louise Fili Collection
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Cris Gianakos Collection
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Bob Gill Collection
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Milton Glaser Collection
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Keith Godard Collection
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Steven Heller Collection
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David Mazzucchelli Collection
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Ed McCabe Collection
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James McMullan Collection
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Tony Palladino Collection
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Stefan Sagmeister Collection
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Paul Sahre Collection
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Deborah Sussman Collection
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Fred Troller Collection
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George Tscherny Collection
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Henry Wolf Collection
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