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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:

First Book of Omens from American Dialogues / Young, Karl., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-38314-40211
Scope and Contents

The cover design is based upon Mayan figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

First Book of Omens from Middle American Dialogues / Young, Karl., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-38315-40212
Scope and Contents

The cover design is based upon Mayan figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Flower Power] / Sych, Paul., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27614-28691
Scope and Contents

This card depicts the words, flower, in yellow, and power, in blue, in a three dimensional typeface floating in a multi-colored sky-like background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Folder. No.4 / Daisy Aldan, Richard Miller, editors ; Mallarme S ; Aldan D., 1956

 Item
Identifier: CC-11432-11648
Scope and Contents

Includes first published English translation of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des by Daisy Aldan. The Sackner Archive also holds the separately issued hard cover book of Aldan's translation, the Cosmopolis version of 1897 and the 1914 version published after Mallarme's death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1956

For a Designer Known as Chank Letters Are Art / Petzinger, Thomas Jr.., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29374-30739
Scope and Contents

Description of type designer who uses Internet for distribution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

For the Birds: In Conversation with Daniel Charles / Cage, John ; McLuhan M ; Fuller B ; Duchamp M ; Joyce J ; Berberian C ; Tudor D ; Young L ; Feldman M ; Wolff C ; Wittgenstein L ; Riley T ; Kaprow A ; Higgins D ; Cunningham M ; Paik NJ ; Satie E., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-16646-17000
Scope and Contents

The introduction of this book by Cage has an experimental typographic layout. The remainder consists of a standard layout of questions and answers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

form + zweck. No.1., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-13028-13320
Scope and Contents

This issue is concerned with design and architectural principles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Found Poems / Gallo, Philip., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-10337-10540
Scope and Contents

These are the first proof pages of book which was underwritten by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Fowarding the Book in California / Tanner W ; Reese H ; Butler F ; Raworth T ; Davids B ; Golden A ; Hoyt S ; Campbell C ; Chen J ; Johnston A ; King S., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10802-11012
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was sponsored by the Pacific Center for the Book Arts and consisted of books submitted by American letterpress printers. Several books in this exhibition are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Fragments / Carbone, Denise., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33892-35564
Scope and Contents

The main text on each page is printed in black ink with wood blocks. The smaller text is letterpress in red ink. Each page contains a collage of found fragments enclosed with acetate. Carbone writes in the colophon that we should "observe each piece, bit, scrap, chip, sliver, particle - reduced to tarnished, withered, warped, punctured, frayed, mared, burned, brused, violated, gnawed, impaired, dog-eared, decrepted, corroded, fragments." The book is printed on artwax brown paper (kraft paper) that imparts a pleasant, waxy smell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Freuds verschwunde Nachbarn / Pamminger W., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-42346-44356
Scope and Contents

Walter Pamminger, the German graphic designer, incorporated facsimiles of original notes, bills and documents of Sigmund Freud while he or his family were living in the Viennese house (1938-1941) where a Freud museum now stands. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Frog Boks (1982-84) / Adair, Gilbert; Mayer P; Edwards K., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-24350-24802
Scope and Contents

One loose sheet incorporates image of an advertisement for "Other Books By W.H. Mallock," the author of "A Human Document." Adair is a Scottish author, film critic and journalist. He won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec. He currently lives in London, England. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

From Arne with Love / Wolf, Arne., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-00499-511
Scope and Contents

The title is repeated in grid-like patterns, over printed, and turned up-side-down to create a highly textured, dense work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

From The Book of Legends / Brakhage, Jane ; Pound E ; Sanders E ; Creeley R ; Olson C ; Siskind A ; Gallo P., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-22269-22691
Scope and Contents

A fine printing by Philip Gallo of three short stories about Maya Deren, Joseph Cornell, and Charles Olson and the Black Mountain school. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989