“Archival recovery: it’s journalism, but with dead people” 😵☠️🪦🗃️Elizabeth Colwell (1881–1961) was the only woman listed as an American designer by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) in 1948. A working artist in Chicago, sh...

“Well, I want the Christmas card” 🎄🎅✉️Elizabeth Friedlander (1903–1984) made a typeface, disinformation campaigns, Die Dame fashion magazine layouts, decorative paper patterns for Curwen, book covers for publishers like P...

“I have too many tabs open” 📑 🗂️Today we talk about some women whose archival trace is almost ghostly in its faintness. Sometimes we only have a single date and some work products, leaving huge gaps in both their professional and persona...

“History: problematic and cool, all at once” 📜✒️🗃️Anna Simons (1871–1951) taught hand lettering to a generation of designers. She studied calligraphy with Edward Johnston at Royal College of Art (UK), then taught courses in his pl...

“Why did you rub the lamp that contains me?” 🧞Joe and Bethany cover what you’ll be hearing on Re(un)Covered, what is archival recovery, some feminist history, and how knowing a more inclusive past can help us make a better future. Also: ...