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A French novel has been placed on a slanted base covered with finely inked cross hatched markings. The pages are folded, woven and sewn so that it is impossible to read the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The twenty-four screenprints alternate with twenty-four pages of Hebrew text that are printed randomly on translucent mat flic (artist's term for a type of plastic) in varyied dimensional typefaces. The images are abstract, organic and colored surrealistic forms which interplay with texts on each set of pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The hard cover book includes 15 hieroglyphic drawings uilizing Scherstjanoi's own alphabet that is explained in the book. The poem-drawings are sound poems. Each card depicts a single "letter" of the alphabet. The calligraphy resembles that of Albrecht Genin and Werner Hartmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book presents biographies of extraordinary women who lived in the Middle ages. The borders on each page are modified from a 15ht centure Book of Hours and the binding resembles a medieval book. The text was hand printed by the typography class at Scripps College. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book presents images and poetry written by thirteen students in the Scripps College typography class dealing with the theme of time of the day. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This chapbook is a collaborative class project which describes the origins of the Scripps College Press. It is based on the talk delivered by Judy Harvey Sahak in 1992 at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Press. It was edited and arranged by the typography class consisting of Reika Go, Natalie Hamner and Penelope Willard with the assistance of Professor Kitty Maryatt. The contents consist of the correspondence between Frederic W. Goudy, designer of Scripps College Old Style, and Dorothy Drake, college librarian. Goudy wrote to the class in 1939 that Dorothy Drake "will present craft & craftsmanship in a manner to inspire you for good books & for the details of their making." Included with several handwritten letters from Goudy to Drake are drawings of letter designs and a portrait. The text of the book was printed in Scripps College Old Style from the original matrices. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a collaboration between twelve woman at Scripps College each of whom contributed a chapter that consisted of a travel diary presented either in prose or verse and illustrated with maps and views. The gray chamois book binding is hinged with a snap to enclose the entire book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The aim of this book project was to focus on intuition and music. The participants were asked to choose music that was important to them and to create imagery as they listened to the music, and then to compose words to enhance the imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The introduction indicates that the theme of this book is the idea of constant change, particularly on how to write text which requires typographic change throughout each section of the book. In addition to a section contributed by each of the six participants, there are five pop-up pages spaced throughout the book which reflect a collaborative text on the theme of dream versus reality. Such topics as color and emotion, and insomnia are explored. The photographic images in the book were printed with a laser printer and roughening of the plexiglas covers and slipcase was accomplished with sandpaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book presents images and poetry written by six students in the Scripps College typography class dealing with the theme of nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The aim of this book was to first enunciate the rules of typography and then to break one of these rules in such a manner that the copy is not compromised; i.e., to write or find texts that might actually require the breaking of rules for enhanced meaning. These rules have arisen from such practical reasons as readability, legibility and clarity of ordering, e.g., where paragraphs start. They are listed in three introductory pages. For example, 1) A capital letter begins a sentence; when enlarged, it aligns with the base of a line of type, 2) Word spacing is equal to the width of an i, or one-fourth of an em, etc. Each of the nine contributors then contributed two pages, the first a statement documenting the use of a rule, the second an example of violating the rule in a successful way. This book appears to be a very early example of what currently is called the new typography by such practitioners as David Carson and Neville Brody. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

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This book was written and designed by the Scripps College typography class under the direction of Kitty Maryatt. The project was to make "Chinese" (in this case Western) spirit papers from handmade paper with the students adding elements to the pulp as a way to insert small poignant messages each wrote for this project. Chinese spirit papers were burned in ceremonies to honor ancestors. Several examples of handmade paper were used throughout the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Seilles's two page letter to the Sackners details her trials of readjusting to life in France, her artistic work and concern for her health. She is pleased to hear that the Sackners saw her exhibition in the Janet Fleisher Gallery in Philadelphia. The collaged pages of found scraps of paper include a cutting from the Sackner Archive stationery. The loose sheets and the letter are inserted inside a fold of the final page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The critical text is written by Martin Schwander. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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With the exception of one page that has the rubberstamped word, SEA, the remainder of the pages depict the word(s) OCEAN in different layouts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem sums up the seedier side of New York city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several poems in this book are written like limericks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem sums up the seedier side of New York city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.