Alphabettes.org is a showcase for work, commentary, and research on lettering, typography, and type design. The loose network exists to support and promote the work of all women and nonbinary people in the field.

AQNB is a not-for-profit editorial platform committed to independent media. Working at the intersection of visual art, music and critical thinking, we cover a diverse range of experimental and emerging practices that resist classification.

The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems, and art. They publish six print issues annually, as well as online content every day of the cursed workweek.

BIPOC Design History is an educational platform, which offers a series of live and previously recorded design history classes, facilitated by Polymode. BIPOC Design History was founded due to the frustrations and glaring gaps in design representation for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

Pdf of Ruben Pater’s book that chronicles how design has interfaced with capitalism throughout history, and contemporary models that break from this paradigm.

'Content free' means just that: the content on this site is free. Free at the point of demand, and free in expression and opinion. Maintained by the Royal College of Art (I think?).

Cyberfeminism Index is INCOMPLETE and ALWAYS IN PROGRESS. This archive contains a multitude of information existing at the intersection of feminism and tech (and much more).

This reader is an attempt to gather materials to begin the process of puncturing and making design narratives inclusive. It is about reading, engaging and learning with others and from others and was/is created/maintained by Ramon Tejada.

Design Atlas is an educational tool for teachers, students and designers. They aim to promote discussion and further understanding of basic type and graphic design principles.

Designing Women is an enlightenment project exploring the impact of women in design. It also aims to raise awareness of an ongoing gender imbalance in the design industry.

Dexter Sinister is the compound name of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey. In 2006, Dexter Sinister established a workshop in the basement at 38 Ludlow Street, on the Lower East Side in New York City. The workshop intended to model a ‘Just-In-Time’ economy of print production, running counter to the contemporary assembly-line realities of large-scale publishing. This is a digital archive of pdfs extending from this project.

A collection of unpublished and out-of-print essays by Ellen Lupton.

Emigre was a quarterly magazine published from 1984 until 2005 in Berkeley, California, dedicated to visual communication, graphic design, typography, and design criticism. Produced by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, Emigre was known for creating some of the very first digital layouts and typeface designs. Click through to Letterform Archive to read/view high resolution images of interiors.

span class="resource-link-style"> A book on design history viewed through a critical lens that makes note of important events and advancements in the field, not just a visual analysis of design’s “best” works (looking at you Meggs).

Essays by educator, designer, and writer Dakota Brown with a focus on design, labor, and the history of capitalism.

Rob Giampietro’s “filing cabinet on the internet”, this is a collection of Rob’s writing, workshops, lectures, interviews and much more.

Kate Wagner’s McMansionHell is a bi-weekly blog that aims to educate the masses about architectural concepts, urban planning, environmentalism and history by making examples out of the places we love to hate the most: the suburbs.

Pdf of the book wherein Marshall McLuhan argues that technologies—from clothing to the wheel to the book and beyond—are the messages, rather than the content of the communication. The book is 160 pages in length and composed in an experimental, collage style with text superimposed on visual elements and vice versa. Some pages are printed backwards and are meant to be read in a mirror. Some are intentionally left blank. Most contain photographs and images both modern and historic, juxtaposed in startling ways.

Modes of Criticism is a design criticism journal based in Porto (Portugal). It was originally created as a platform for Francisco Laranjo’s research at the London College of Communication, evolving into a journal working towards the politicization of design discourse and practice. Modes of Criticism is resident at the Shared Institute.

Devised in concert with Rhizome's acclaimed digital preservation department, Net Art Anthology aims to address the shortage of historical perspectives on a field in which even the most prominent artworks are often inaccessible. The series takes on the complex task of identifying, preserving, and presenting 100 exemplary works in a field characterized by broad participation, diverse practices, promiscuous collaboration, and rapidly shifting formal and aesthetic standards, sketching a possible net art canon.

Pdf of a book with aims of investigating the social, economic, political and artistic consequences of networked media enveloping the planet.

Collection of critical essays relating to design, culture, aesthetics and more. Also a radical design meme account.

A collection of texts previously printed by Other Forms. Other Forms is are a mobile research and design collective working in multiple intersections of architecture, graphic design, and publishing.

he People’s Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive that aims to expand, diversify, and preserve graphic design history. It includes finished projects, process, correspondence, oral histories, articles, and other material in the form of images, documents, videos, audio, as well as links to other relevant archives and websites.

Pdf of Ruben Pater’s book that breaks down the politics of design as it relates to language and type, color and contrast, symbols and icons, and information graphics.

The Public Domain Review’s focus is on works now fallen into the public domain, that vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction. Their aim is to promote and celebrate the public domain in all its abundance and diversity, and help our readers explore its rich terrain – like a small exhibition gallery at the entrance to an immense network of archives and storage rooms that lie beyond.

Queer.Archive.Work, Inc. (QAW) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) library, publishing studio, and residency serving Providence, RI and beyond. QAW includes a non-circulating library of books, zines, tools, objects, and downloadable files, a shared publishing studio (with Binch Press), including extensive risograph, screen-printing, letterpress, and other print and publishing resources, and digital meeting spaces.

A collection of design texts that aims to shorten the length between practice and theory. Maintained by Jarret Fuller who also runs the podcast Scratching the Surface.

Real Life was a magazine about living with technology that ran from 2016-2022. The emphasis was more on living.

Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation. Founded by artist Mark Tribe as an email discussion list including some of the first artists to work online, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history of contemporary art engaged with digital technologies and the internet.

The Serving Library is a non-profit organization that publishes an online and print journal, maintains a collection of objects, and offers public events and programs. It was founded in New York in 2011 by Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Angie Keefer, and David Reinfurt.

Pdf of Ellen Lupton’s influential book on typography that many would consider a “must read”.

TYPEROOM is an online platform for the Typophile Generation. Showcasing outstanding typographic works, featuring inspiring stories about the letterforms that matter, premiering breaking news and interviewing type designers from around the globe.

The Walker Art Center’s experimental digital publishing platform, the Walker Reader, explores new horizons for writing about the arts and culture. Each year, the Walker Reader presents a series of evolving series comprised of original scholarly essay, interviews, videos, special projects, and unruly permutations that illuminates the art and ideas that reshape us and our world.

Z-Library is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis, but has since expanded dramatically.