Gift Ideas for the Type Obsessed

As we wind down the year in type, here’s a sampling of gift ideas for the type lover in your life.

Sista Said: Words of Wisdom from Black Women in Social Justice & the Arts

We love this set of postcards for its serendipitousness. You’ll get a random selection of three hand-pressed works by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., each offering timeless wisdom from women such as Sojourner Truth to Audre Lorde to Fannie Lou Hamer. No two cards are alike.

Find it at Letterform Archive.

Chicago Architecture Playing Cards

We’re obsessed with everything Christopher Devine at Peacham is doing at the intersection of his twin passions: history and design.

This deck, a collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Center and Wonder City Studio, is like a walking tour of Chicago as the birthplace of modern American architecture. The cards are typeset in Söhne and the playing suits are in Pitch, both by New Zealand-based Klim Type Foundry.

Find the deck at Wonder City Studio.

Devine recently collaborated with Tré Seals and Village Preservation on the Greenwich Village Building Set. He’s also worked with Tobias Frere-Jones and the Historic Districts Council on the Rowhouse Playing Cards, featured here.

The Yearbook of Type No. 7

This hefty volume is all about the numbers: 608 pages.,180 typefaces, 206 type designers from 108 foundries in 29 countries, and one diversion-worthy microsite.

Find it at Slanted.

Riveted in the Word

To call it an e-book feels like an injustice. About a woman’s battle to regain language after a stroke, Riveted is more a moveable feast of letters and words. Lehrer spoke about his collaboration with the book’s subject and about its design at the PRINT Book Club earlier this year. For more, access the recording here.

Find Riveted in the App Store.

More PRINT Book Club gift ideas for type lovers: My First Book of Fancy Letters by Jessica Hische, the 3rd edition of Ellen Lupton’s Thinking With Type, and Citizen Printer, a monograph on the life and career of Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.

Mistaken Lyrics Coasters

A personal favorite (my 80s set is well-worn), these coasters are not so much about typography, but rather the love of words. And music. And laughter. Does a better combo exist?

Classic rock to the 90s to the greatest hits. There’s even a mix-tape option.

“Rock the cat spa” at Bright Beam Goods.

System Process Form: Type as Algorithm

This book, by Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir, is described by the publisher as, “The ultimate typographic experiment. 7,762,392 typefaces from one of the world’s foremost typography studios.” Angela Riechers, in her review for PRINT, called it a feast for the eyes and the imagination.

Find the book at Thames & Hudson.

365 Typography Calendar

Designer Kit Hinrichs wants you to look past the words and numbers and appreciate the sculpture and emotion of typography every day of the year.

Find it at Studio Hinrichs.

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