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This book presents an overview of the life and work of the American-Japanese computer artist/scientist.The fore edge printing reads, "It is customary that the edges of a page be neglected in favor of its front and back." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Paula Scher traces her design work and career in sections titled Corporate Politics 101, Style Wars and In the Company of Men. Her graphic designs have a concrete and visual poetic sensibility. One of them, "an opinionated map," that is held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced on page 134. In the first section of the book, Scher describes and illustrates her record cover designs. Style Wars concerns designing record, books, logos, marketing graphics, posters and painted maps. The final section concerns Scher's involvement with Pentagram, designing for the Public Theater and Broadway, logos, magazines, architectural design and fabric design. Scher writes, "I began painting small opinionated maps in the early nineties. Over time they grew larger and more obsessive. In the late nineties and now the map paintings serve as an antidote to laborious corporate design projects frustrated by indecisive committees." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: "Robert Massin (b. 1925) is a highly influential French graphic designer and writer. He has worked with many famous authors and playwrights, including Eugene Ionesco, Blaise Cendrars, and Raymond Queneau, and for twenty years has been the art director for the pre-eminent French publisher Gallimard. This is the first monograph published in English on the work of Massin, one of the key exponents in the development of post-war graphic design. Wolff charts Massin's wide-ranging career with detailed discussion of some of his most inventive and exciting projects, including the award-winning THE BALD PRIMA DONNA (1964) and LETTER AND IMAGE (1970). Wolff carried out her research in close collaboration with Massin, gaining unrivaled access to the Massin collection in Chartres as well as the designer's personal archives. MASSIN includes preparatory sketches, letters, and finished works, photographed especially for this book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The announcement was designed by curry for a play based upom the life and work of Kafka. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is comprised of the opening quotes (manifestos) of Wired magazine that influenced the graphics, text and visuals of each issue. Marshall McLuhan, in the first issue of Wired and the first page of this volume, is quoted from his book in 1967, 'The Medium is the Massage,' "The medium, or process, of our time - electrical technology - is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. Everything is changing...You, your education, your family, your neighborhood, your government, your job, your relationship to 'the others.' And they 're changing dramatically." The remaining IntroQuotes from Wired are presented in dramatic colors with clear, bold typography and visual effects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition was organized around questions of form, function, and medium and focused on designers beginning their careers in the 1980s and 1990s. The first section dealt with messages on the street, graphic design competing for public attention. Next, typography was analyzed, the art of creating letters for reproduction and organizing them in space. The third section of the book considered the chief social function of design: to visualize the identity of institutions and audiences. The last chapter looked at publishing including books, magazines and computers. Selected interviews with noted graphic designers appear in the final section of the book. Pages of the following items, which are held by the Sackner Archive, "Through Light and the Alphabet" by Johanna Drucker, the 1989 Time Warner Annual Report, and the Independent Project Press are reproduced. In...

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This booklet was given to visitors at the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This print is taken from a suite of seven prints. Moss comments: A technique I developed for the pots I painted was to create a style of lettering which employed little geometrical islands filled with pueblo-style designs to form the negative spaces between Hebrew letters. In this print "East meets West" literally as the four Hebrew letters, Mem, Zayin, Resh, and Chet, appear in the white spaces between these islands and spell out the Hebrew word Mizrach which means "east". The Mizrach plaque is a traditional Jewish object that was placed on the eastern wall of the synagogue or home to indicate the direction of prayer towards Jerusalem. These plaques would often take the form of intricate calligraphic works employing micrography or papercuts, and became a virtuoso object of Jewish folk art. Often each of the four letters are associated with the first letters of the phrase: Mitzad Zeh Ruach Chaim, meaning, "From this direction comes the spirit of life." -- Source of annotation:...

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This book documents the avant garde exhibitions held in Martin Muller's Modernism Gallery in San Francisco over a 25 year period. It provides a history of 20th Century avant garde movements and depicts full page reproductions of works exhibited in the Modernism shows. The stapled pages insert repoduces an article that was printed in the San Francsco newpaper regarding Martin Muller and his gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page has been smartly designed by advertisers and music companies in the typical MTV design mode. The accordion folded page lists nominees for awards in each category and winners for 1993. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poster depicts the words, 'Muse Me' placed over deconstructed letterforms of M and E as well as abstract forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Grady Harp, April 06 Review Amazon.com. Reza Abedini, a graphic designer and professor at Tehran University, has collected an impressive number of works of contemporary photography, graphic design, and illustration to share in this very well designed book. Large in scale and size, this book contains over 150 pages of the finest in the illustrative arts, examples of which may be new to most readers. Though all of us know and respect ancient Persian art and decor, surely some of the most complexly beautiful art ever created, the current trends absorbing the minds and talents of Iranian artists is a fascinating mixture of poetry, humanistic statements and reactions to the nearly constant states of upheaval in this seminal land. In a tightly written but informative introduction Abedini shares a succinct history of the movements in art in Iran as the country passed through three generations of artists influenced by the 1979 revolution: those artists at the peak of their creative powers...

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Steven Heller contributed an introduction, "Newsletters - No Excuse for Bad Design." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.