Inherent in the Grolier Club’s extensive collection is the Lisa Unger Baskin Exhibition which showcases a land grant from the thirteenth century. The scribal parchment is the collections’ oldest item, dated back to the 9th of March in 1240. Signed by Ildenbrandinus de Navacchio, this document expresses a posthumous request […]

By: Otasha James Futura is a font which started being sketched in 1924 and was released in 1927, at the Bauer Type Foundry. It is referred to as, “the fully developed prototype of the century Geometric Sans-serif .” Designed by Paul Renner, Futura was designed as a contribution on the […]