Visual Communication: New Books

The Rob Roy Kelly Wood Type Collection is a comprehensive collection of wood type manufactured and used for printing in nineteenth-century America. Comprising nearly 150 typefaces of various sizes and styles, it was amassed by noted design educator and historian Rob Roy Kelly starting in 1957 and is now held by the University of Texas.

Strikethrough explores protest materials through the urgency of their typographic form. With a rich selection of broadsheets, signs, banners, posters, and ephemera spanning the 19th century to today, this exhibition catalog celebrates the use of letters to amplify and empower.

The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton, revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces.