“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: ...

Join Bethany, a literary researcher with a passion for the obscure, as she shares recovered and uncovered stories from archives around the world. For season one, we'll be talking all about the (mostly) forgotten women of the metal type ...