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Graphic Design History traces the social and cultural role of visual communication from prehistory to the present, connecting what designers do every day to a history of innovative graphic forms and effects. The contents of this book include the following chapters titled Early Writing: Mark-making, Notation Systems, and Scripts - Medieval Letterforms and Book Formats - Modern typography and the Creation of the Public Sphere - the Graphic Effects of Industrial Production - The Culture of Consumption - Corporate Identities and the International Style - Postmodernism in Design - Digital Design. The book includes an extensive glossary of terms, a bibliography and a list of image credits. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This exhibition catalogue of selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection is organized into four sections: Design and the Avant-Garde; Design and Commerce; Design and Social Change; Design and Politics. In addition to Yale, the catalogue was published by Willliams College of Art and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Berman's collection is the premier graphic design collection of the 20th century works in the United States. In her introductory essay, "Writing a History," Maud Lavin points out that Berman collected with aggression and dedication for twenty years starting in 1975, shaping the history of graphic design during the period when the scholarly field of design history was emerging. Berman viewed graphic design works as objects of art, politics and cultural history. His collection "covers innovative design used in the politics of everyday life, in persuading consumers, in propagating for political causes, in redesigning ever-industrializing cultures, in papering...

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Subtitled "explorations of an uneasy relationship." this book consists of essays related to the title. Paul Elliman's essay deals mainly with the books by Georges Perec. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each pillow depicts a monthly calendar for 2004 along with a graphic design image from a well-known graphic designer. The work was presented to the Sackners as a gift from students, designers and faculty of the NWS of the Arts in Miami. A photograph of Barbara Wilson sitting amongst her pillows on a sofa is stored within an artist's correspondence looseleaf notebook in the Sackner study. The October pillow picturing Piet Zwart was selected for the opening exhibition at the Miami-Dade Library in Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each pillow depicts a monthly calendar for 2004 along with a graphic design image from a well-known graphic designer. The work was presented to the Sackners as a gift from students, designers and faculty of the NWS of the Arts in Miami. A photograph of Barbara Wilson sitting amongst her pillows on a sofa is stored within an artist's correspondence looseleaf notebook in the Sackner study. The October pillow picturing Piet Zwart was selected for the opening exhibition at the Miami-Dade Library in Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article is a review of Paula Scher's first gallery exhibition of her maps at Maya Stendal Gallery in New York, an interview on her methods of work and illustrations of her loft space. It mentions that all of the paintings in the show were sold. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book features several examples of the deconstructed typographies of the nineties that have been designed and used on the Mac &/or PC digital computers. Each font design is accompanied by the name of the designer, versions available, purpose, examples of usage and an illustration of a full page, graphic design using the typeface by its designer. There are seven typographic designs by Paul Sych reproduced in this book that are held in poster form by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dust jacket description: Hand-drawn graphics mark a return to the creator's immediacy and craft. Increasingly, advertising campaigns, CD covers, and branding are adopting the rough-hewn style of manually created typography. Notable recent examples can be seen in the Calvin Klein campaign designed by M/M, Paris, the self-inflicted body marks of Stefan Sagmeister, and the painstaking illustrations of Pentagram partner Paula Scher. This is the first publication to offer a complete overview of handwritten typographics, drawing on an extensive array of examples from around the world. At the heart of the book are hundreds of graphics, presented in creative themes: "Scrawl" (letterforms that are raw, splotchy, untidy); "Scratch" (scraped, cut, gouged fonts); "Script" (type that is sinuous, curlicued, ornate); "Simulate" (typefaces that have been redrawn or copied); "Shadow" (dimensional, voluminous, and monumental letterforms); "Suggestive" (forms that suggest the metaphorical, surreal,...

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These are the designs for the publication edited by jw curry and Michael Dean, published by Underwhich Editions in 1985. The latter is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: Helvetica is not only the preferred typeface of leading professionals, it is also an all-time favourite among the multitude of codes, signals and signs that flavour urban life. This book sings the praises of the honest worker and solo entertainer of typefaces, Helvetica, and of its forgotten creator and all those who have contributed to its unparalleled international march of triumph over the past forty years. Filled with pages of color images of Helvetica in use, from album covers and road signs to advertisements and product packaging, the designs gathered together in honor of Helvetica have been created by superb designers and anonymous amateurs from all over the world. The result is an exciting collection of this icon of modern design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mark C. Taylor has written a philosophical and intellectual text with an experimental layout that is concerned with surfaces, postmodernism and theology. Intermingling text and image from multiple sources, he divided the book into chapters that are titled "Skinc(r)apes, Dermagraphics, De-signing, Ground Zero, Interfacing." The book includes an extensive section on tattooing. Photographic colored reproductions of fashion advertisements form a section of the book. Jack Miles introductory essay "How to Read This Book" is subtitled "A Note to the Reader from a Concerned Friend." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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One copy is printed in German and the other in English. Walter Siegfried in an essay, "It is hard to make someone laugh," reproduces analog recordings of the breathing pattern during laughter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pamphlet has English summaries of the German texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.