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Date Wednesday, October 28th 2026

Venue University of the Arts Sharjah / AVA

Rare Prints: Inside Abboudi Bou Jaoude’s Archive

During the tour, Abboudi will guide participants through selected rare prints and ephemera from his archive, sharing the stories behind their discovery, preservation, and cultural context. The tour will highlight the relationships among typography, illustration, printing, publishing, cinema, and popular culture, revealing how these media reflect evolving visual languages in Lebanon and the wider Arab… Continue reading Rare Prints: Inside Abboudi Bou Jaoude’s Archive

Date Wednesday, May 27th 2026

Venue Stanford University / Green Library

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Rare books (tour)

Capacity: 25 peopleTour ticket is required

Date Thursday, May 28th 2026

Venue Stanford University / Green Library

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David Rumsey Map Center (tour)

Capacity: 20 peopleTour ticket is required The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more than 200,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes,… Continue reading David Rumsey Map Center (tour)

Date Thursday, May 28th 2026

Venue Stanford University

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Woven Words, Technology, and Culture (tour)

Capacity: 20 peopleTour ticket is required Stanford Libraries now holds an 1883 edition of a rare book, Les laboureurs: poème tiré de Jocelyn, whose pages (text and ornaments) were entirely woven on a Jacquard loom by the firm of silk merchant Joseph-Alphonse Henry. This book predates the more widely known and held Livre de Prieres… Continue reading Woven Words, Technology, and Culture (tour)

Date Friday, May 29th 2026

Venue Stanford University

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The MingKwai Chinese Typewriter (tour)

Sorry, this tour is sold out The MingKwai (“bright and clear”) Chinese typewriter, invented by famed writer and linguist Lin Yutang in the 1940s, was a singular breakthrough. Not only was it the first Chinese typewriter with a true keyboard—it was a rethinking of writing technology itself. Its 72-key layout did not inscribe characters directly,… Continue reading The MingKwai Chinese Typewriter (tour)

Date Thursday, May 28th 2026

Venue Stanford University

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An ATypI Visit to Letterform Archive (tour)

Capacity: 40 peopleTour ticket is required Tour Letterform Archive’s gallery and get hands-on access to material curated specifically for ATypI attendees. Letterform Archive is a nonprofit center for inspiration, education, and community in graphic design, with a collection of over 100,000 items illuminating the history of calligraphy, lettering, and typography. This guided tour, led by… Continue reading An ATypI Visit to Letterform Archive (tour)

Date Wednesday, May 27th 2026

Venue Stanford University / Green Library

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Exploring Early Digital Type Materials at Stanford

Capacity: 20 peopleTour ticket is required The Special Collections at Stanford’s University Archives hold unique primary source materials related to the earliest period of digital type and digital typography. This year’s ATypI conference offers an opportunity to engage in such materials from the collections of Donald Knuth (e.g. on development of Metafont, an early digital… Continue reading Exploring Early Digital Type Materials at Stanford