Project
2026Matchbook Book: the archive keeping a lost design legacy alight
Once a mainstay of social life in Britain, the branded matchbook no longer accompanies a restaurant bill or sits on a pub’s bar. This new book presents a vast collection of these miniature windows into the graphic sensibilities of a former era.
Closest kin

Project
Artist Pio Abad delves into the vast TfL Lost Property archive: “a real-time portrait of London”

Photograph
Café Royal Books is an impressive archive of decades of British documentary photography
Logo Archive#5
Brand
Logo Archive#5

Publication
The team at Letterform Archive reveal their favourite type-filled books
A new book catalogues both the grand and inconspicuous icons of British design
Publication
A new book catalogues both the grand and inconspicuous icons of British design