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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:

Emotional Digital: A Sourcebook of Contemporary Typographics / Branczyk, Alexander, editor ; Nachtwey, Jutta, editor ; Nehl, Heike, editor ; Schlaich, Sibylle, editor ; Siebert, Jurgen, editor ; Licko Z ; VanderLans R ; Lubalin H ; Spiekermann E ; Sych P ; Brody N ; Rodchenko A ; Stone S ; DiSciullo P ; Goudy F ; Tschichold J., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33514-35163
Scope and Contents

For this book, fifty international companies that most strongly influenced the international type industry were invited to submit their best printed matter and visual materials. The material was selected for inclusion in the book according to the originality of the art work and for the important status that some of the fonts have achieved. The companies among others included Adobe, Bitstream, FontShop International, Emigre, Linotype, and U&lc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Exercices de Style / Queneau, Raymond ; Faucheux P., 1956

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Identifier: CC-31872-33395
Scope and Contents The book includes thirteen typographical interpretations by Pierre Faucheux that are presented as end papers and fold-out pages. Queneau's texts are composed of clever rhymes and word-plays.The story is of a twentysomething bus rider with a long, skinny neck and a goofy hat accuses another passenger of trampling his feet; he then grabs an empty seat. Later, in a park, a friend encourages the same man to reorganize the buttons on his overcoat. In Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, this determinedly pointless scenario unfolds 99 times in twice as many pages. These terse variations on a theme are a wry lesson in creativity. The story is told as an official letter, as a blurb for a novel, as a sonnet, and in "Opera English." It's told onomatopoetically, philosophically, telegraphically, and mathematically. It is a profound exploration into the possibilities of language." Gary Jakaitis reviewed the English translation: In the 1930s, Raymond Queneau attended a performance of...
Dates: 1956

Exercices de Style / Queneau, Raymond ; Faucheux P., 1956

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Identifier: CC-32114-33653
Scope and Contents The book includes thirteen typographical interpretations by Pierre Faucheux that are presented as end papers and fold-out pages. Queneau's texts are composed of clever rhymes and word-plays. The book includes thirteen typographical interpretations by Pierre Faucheux that are presented as end papers and fold-out pages. Queneau's texts are composed of clever rhymes and word-plays.The story is of a twentysomething bus rider with a long, skinny neck and a goofy hat accuses another passenger of trampling his feet; he then grabs an empty seat. Later, in a park, a friend encourages the same man to reorganize the buttons on his overcoat. In Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, this determinedly pointless scenario unfolds 99 times in twice as many pages. These terse variations on a theme are a wry lesson in creativity. The story is told as an official letter, as a blurb for a novel, as a sonnet, and in "Opera English." It's told onomatopoetically, philosophically, telegraphically, and...
Dates: 1956

Experimenta Typografica: Gnothi Se Auton. No.3 / Willem Sandberg., 1979

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Identifier: CC-13436-13738
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of the book first published in 1945. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Experimenta Typografica: Servus Fidei Lectura Sub Aqua. No.1 / Willem Sandberg., 1979

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Identifier: CC-13451-13753
Scope and Contents

The cover of the reprint differs from the original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Experimenta Typografica: Servus Fidei Lectura Sub Aqua. No.1 / Willem Sandberg., 1944

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Identifier: CC-14351-14659
Scope and Contents

Willem Sandberg had the name Henri-Willem Van der Bosch during the the WWII period April 1943-May 1945. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1944

Experimenta Typografica: Tektonike. No.11 / Willem Sandberg., 1956

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Identifier: CC-32477-34052
Scope and Contents

Willem Sandberg had the name Henri-Willem Van der Bosch during the the WWII period April 1943-May 1945. This is the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1956

Experimenta Typografica: Tektonike. No.11 / Willem Sandberg., 1957

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Identifier: CC-32506-34083
Scope and Contents

Willem Sandberg had the name Henri-Willem Van der Bosch during the the WWII period April 1943-May 1945. This is the second edition. Its cover image has a slightly different color registration than the 1st edtion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

[Experimental Typography] / Sadek, George, editor; Richman G; Sharits P., 1964

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Identifier: CC-34002-35678
Scope and Contents

This book consists of experimental typographic pieces by graduate students in the design program using bauer bodini typeface with different inks and papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Eye. No.56/Sum / Poynor R ; Heller S ; Mau B., 2005

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Identifier: CC-43842-45938
Scope and Contents

Rick Poynor contributes as essay "Critique/Select, Arrange" and reviews "The Situationist International: A User's Guide" by Simon Ford. Steven Heller writes "Me Feral Designer." Bruce Mau's book "Massive Change: The Future of Global Design." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Fall / Crombie, John., 1984

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Identifier: CC-17967-18337
Scope and Contents

Red colored text dipicts the outlines of leaves and the piling up of mounds of leaves as the story progresses. Often the color changes within s single letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Fall / Emigre., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28303-29481
Scope and Contents

This publication provides a description of prior Emigre magazines and publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Fast 1/2 Minimum / Ide, Christian., 1991

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Identifier: CC-08442-8609
Scope and Contents

The book consists of letter pictures of many different type faces with only a few to a page. The names of the type faces are listed on a page near the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991