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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:

Dream Time/ Rainbow Travel / Ide, Christian ; Chatwin, Bruce., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-08594-8766
Scope and Contents

The text, "Songlines," taken from Chatwin a deceased Australian writer, is typographically presented by Ides on hand dyed Japanese papers. The theme is the Australian Aborigine's idea about how plants and creatures came to inhabit the Earth. One hundred copies were published in German and 60 copies in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Ein Ha Fur Kluge Blicke, 1991

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Identifier: CC-06056-6170
Scope and Contents

The book is based upon a German translation of a Khlebnikov poem, viz. every other page has a line of poetry with two or three letters in bold type face, opposing a stylized, calligraphic-like rendering of these letters by Frenken. An original painted, calligraphic drawing by Frenken is present near the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

El Lissitzky / Tschichold, Jan., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-01132-1162
Scope and Contents

This book is a reprint from the journal "Typografische Monatsblatter."; published in 1970. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Emigre: Alienation. No.8 / Rudy VanderLans, editor ; Bukowski C., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-13725-14029
Scope and Contents

This issue consists of a photographic/typographic experiment by Stefano Massei and Rudy VanderLans. It features a mixture of type and image combinations inspired by television and advertising language. Further, it consists of a mixture of type and image experimentations inspired by television and advertising language and imagery. The issue is centered on a single poem by Los Angeles poet Charles Bukowski. These layouts also feature the first time designer VanderLans uses a page-makeup program to create the entire page without additional paste-up, except for the photographs, which are still stripped into "windows" conventionally. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Emigre: Cranbrook Academy/Dutch Design Special Issue. No.10 / Rudy VanderLans, editor., 1988

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Identifier: CC-13724-14028
Scope and Contents

This issue was edited and designed by graduate students at Cranbrook Academy of Art during the early years of Katherine McCoy's tenure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Emigre: Economy of Means. No.59/Sum / Fake I.D., editor ; Licka S ; Poynor R., 2001

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Identifier: CC-40275-42246
Scope and Contents

Chris Riley contributes an in depth essay 'Sustainable Consumerism" in which he analyzes the brand as a business idea and the notion of cultural influence in advertising. Rick Poyner writes about reaction to the design manifesto of 1999 in his essay "First Things First." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Emigre: Everyone Is a Designer! Manifest for the Design Economy. No.58/Spr / Geert Lovink, Mieka Gerritzen, editors., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-39886-41853
Scope and Contents

This issue is sub-titled "100 Tips for a Design Economy" and is a collection of slogans, comments, maxims and glossaries. There are several negative comments about current design and WEB site design practices expressed in bold colored poster-like pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Emigre: Graphic Design Incl.. No.53/Win / Rudy VanderLans, editor., 2000

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Identifier: CC-33856-35527
Scope and Contents

The theme of this issue is advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Emigre: Joint Venture. No.37 / Rudy VanderLans, editor ; VanderLans R., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-14411-14720
Scope and Contents

According to its editors, this issue is devoted to "collaboration, writing, intellectual property, entrepreneurialism, poetry, authorship, self-publication, reading and everything else that design is made of." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Emigre: Neo-Mania. No.24 / Rudy VanderLans, editor ; VanderLans R., 1992

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Identifier: CC-13709-14013
Scope and Contents

Documents the concept behind the alternative rock magazine, Ray Gun, through an interview with its editorial director, Neil Feineman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Emigre: New Faces: California Institute of the Arts. No.21 / Rudy VanderLans, editor., 1991

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Identifier: CC-13712-14016
Scope and Contents

Reprints a story, "The Spiral" by Italo Calvino, in a highly experimental typographic layout designed by Andrea Futter. Indeed, the other pieces in this issue from students in the Design Program of the California Institute of Arts are also among the most highly experimental works in the run of Emigre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Emigre: The Designer's Republic. No.29/Win / Rudy VanderLans, editor ; VanderLans R., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-13707-14011
Scope and Contents

This issue according to Emigre "features an overview of the work of Sheffield - based The Designers Republic, and a lengthy interview with founder Ian Anderson. This is perhaps Emigre's most sought after issue. Includes a special 12 page insert (calendar) specially designed by TDR for this issue of Emigre." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994