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The duplicate copy has printing errors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Teal Triggs contributes an essay on British small magazines (fanzines). She states that the term fanzine was first coined by Russ Chauvenet in the United States in 1941 to describe mimeographed publications devoted primarily to science fiction and super hero comic enthusiasts. Today, it has come to mean a periodical that embraces any subject faithful to the specific interests of the "fans." Frances Butler contributes an essay, "New Demotic Typography: The Search for New Indices." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes articles on children's school books, Arabic typography, and Mayan hieroglyphics, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes an indepth essay on preserving cuneiform titled "Communicating cuneform: the Evolution of a Multimedia Cuneiform Database." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes an essay Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and related languages for concrete poetry with illustrations by Marth Scotford. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The aim of this book is to introduce the terms and theories relating to visual language in an attempt to help you understand how visual communication works. Visible Signs features a range of contemporary examples of art & design and helps to explain how they work by applying the ideas and theories outlined in the text. The reader is invited to use the stickers on the first page to customize the cover! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article deals with the utilization of concrete and visual poetic forms in advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the introduction, Tufte characterizes his three books on information design as follows. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is about pictures of numbers, i.e., depicting data and statistics. Envisioning Information is about pictures of nouns and visual strategies for design. Visual Explanations is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, of process and dynamics, of causes and effects, of explanation and narrative. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This section of the Review considers new publications relating to design in graphics, typography, travel literature, religious illumination, design history, British modernism and California "cool" in art, culture and film. "Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide by Johanna Drucker and Emily McVarish is reviewed. It is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The letters of the engraving are green and the background is red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is a compilation of printed material from journals of West Virginia Paper from the years 1953, 1954 and 1955, including cover designs and pages. Bradbury Thompson designed the cover and index of the book. The index describes and lists the contributors in the following categories: artists and photographers, illustrations, subject headings, engraving processes and type faces. The text conveys the importance of print, ink and paper in mid-20th century America. For example, in issue 194 one reads,"To the sculpture, stone is a cosmic force crying for form. The strokes of Michelangelo's chisel unlocked ideas from marble that remain as valid today as four centuries ago. Great works af art provide mankind with imperishable riches because, as expressions of eternal ideas, they retain a constant value for every time. Printing, too, endows the human spirit with a legacy of indestructible ideas. The currency of thought in every age is minted by the printing press. Ink and papers...

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In this advertisement, the torso of the characters is formed from the Greek letter "beta" to denote beta cells, the insulin secreting cells of the insulin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was designed by Seymour Chwast and Victor Kotowitz. The Sackner Archive holds photostats of collages by Kotowitz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover and pages are cut in the middle to accommodate a pencil sharpener in the shape of a nose that is attached to the last page and presents itself on each page. Wordplay on the nose (knows) is used as a promotion to introduce the principals of the marketing firm that commisioned this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is a work of fiction in which all the texts and illustrations are clipped from women's magazines from the 1960's. It resembles the cut-up stories made by William Burroughs except that the flow is deliberate rather than random. Graham Rawle describes the making of the book in an afterward. "I started writing this book in the usual way. When I had completed a rough draft, I then searched through hundreds of women's magazines, cutting out anything that seemed relevant to the scenes I'd written - sentences and phrases that, when joined together, could be rearranged to approximate what I wanted to say. These cuttings were then filed and from them I began to reassemble my story. Little by little, my original words were discarded and replaced by those I'd bound. Once the transition was complete, I could start pasting up the pages as artwork. The method was primitive: scissors and glue. Apart from a little tweaking here and there to enlarge very small type to a readable size,...