Book Fair
This year’s Typographics will feature the 5th Typographics Book Fair in an online format, with items for sale from some of our favorite booksellers, July 22–26.
Due to recent schedule changes around Covid-19, the Book Fair is taking place online this year. There will be a wide diversity of material available relating to typography, lettering, design, etc, with everything from rare antiquarian type specimens to contemporary titles on modern graphic design.
Free Registration
Register for the Typographics Book Fair to receive links to the booksellers’ online Book Fair pages and Zoom video booths.
Please note: Registration for the Book Fair is separate from registration for the main Typographics online conference and other portions of the Typographics festival.
This event has ended.
Registration is no longer available.
Online Booths
All booksellers will be available via Zoom video chats at designated times (shown below) to answer questions, discuss shipping, show off their items, negotiate bulk pricing, and anything they usually do at an in-person book fair.
Register for the Book Fair to receive links to each seller’s online booth and any related updates.
| Wed, July 22 |
Thu, July 23 |
Fri, July 24 |
Sat, July 25 |
Sun, July 26 |
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| 10:00–12:00 | 12:30–14:30 | 15:00–17:00 | 12:30–14:30 | 15:00–17:00 | 10:00–12:00 | 15:00–17:00 | 15:00–17:00 | 15:00–17:00 | |
| Display Books | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | |||||||
| Draw Down Books | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ||||
| Inventory Press | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ||||
| Katherine Small Gallery | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | |||||||
| Left Bank Books | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ||||||
| Letterform Archive | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ✔︎ | ||||
Times are listed in the time zone for New York City (UTC-4).
Booksellers
Display Books
Display is an occasional bookstore offering carefully selected and hard-to-find graphic design books, periodicals and ephemera. From the rational to the experimental to the playful, their inventory represents a distinct point of view about modern (c. 1940–1970) graphic design and typography from the United States and beyond.
Draw Down Books
Draw Down Books is a designer-run publishing platform based in New England, producing small and unique books with a focus on graphic design and typography. Draw Down also sells a wide range of design and typography related titles from both large and small publishers. They are especially interested in the overlap between education and publishing and feature small-run titles published by both students and faculty from design programs around the world. They’ll have with them at the fair: Hardcore Fanzine: Good and Plenty, 1989-1992 *recognized by 2019 50 Books/50 Covers competition, Is the Internet Down?, These Posters Are Fireworks: Graphic Design on Display Inside Out & Upside Down: Posters from CalArts, 1980–2019, Post Medium: Catalogue for the 2019 Chaumont Graphic Design International Biennale, Los Angeles (Slanted 35)
Inventory Press
Inventory Press publishes books on topics in art, architecture, design, and music, with an emphasis on subcultures, minor histories, and the sociopolitical aspects of material culture.
Katherine Small Gallery
Katherine Small Gallery presents exhibits meant to encourage affordable collecting as a way for graphic designers and students of design to learn about the history of their field. Meeting sessions will be listed here soon.
Left Bank Books
Left Bank Books is an online used and rare bookshop specializing in literature and the arts. They feature a hand-picked inventory of used and rare books that reflect their interest in the creative process.
For sale: Graphics Diagrams by Walter Herdeg 1983, Memphis Design, Kruithuis 1984, How to Make Origami, Isao Honda, Japanese exhibition calalog for Olivetti product showcase 1971, Paul Rand, His Work from 1946 to 1958, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, signed 1st edition, 1975, Plakat Polski/The Polish Poster, 1979, The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, Donald Barthelme, 1st edition, 1971, Massimo Vignelli’s copy of Design for Point of Sale, Ladislav Sutnar, 1st edition 1952, Terrazzo. No. 1, Fall 1988 1st edition.
Letterform Archive
Letterform Archive is participating in Typographics for the 6th year, this time with gems never before seen at our booth because they were too heavy or too rare to travel. Bound type foundry specimen catalogs and books designed by Paul Renner, Rudolf Koch, Takenobu Igarashi, Karel Martens, W. A. Dwiggins, and Charles Henri Ford.