Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Amazon.com: Helvetica is not only the preferred typeface of leading professionals, it is also an all-time favourite among the multitude of codes, signals and signs that flavour urban life. This book sings the praises of the honest worker and solo entertainer of typefaces, Helvetica, and of its forgotten creator and all those who have contributed to its unparalleled international march of triumph over the past forty years. Filled with pages of color images of Helvetica in use, from album covers and road signs to advertisements and product packaging, the designs gathered together in honor of Helvetica have been created by superb designers and anonymous amateurs from all over the world. The result is an exciting collection of this icon of modern design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Highly stylized typography in the genre of the San Francisco "flower children" posters of the same period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Prints depict circus images through a combination of typefaced and calligraphic letters and inventions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The subject of this piece is Jim Cramer, a frenetic television stock touter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is the 4th printing of the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mark C. Taylor has written a philosophical and intellectual text with an experimental layout that is concerned with surfaces, postmodernism and theology. Intermingling text and image from multiple sources, he divided the book into chapters that are titled "Skinc(r)apes, Dermagraphics, De-signing, Ground Zero, Interfacing." The book includes an extensive section on tattooing. Photographic colored reproductions of fashion advertisements form a section of the book. Jack Miles introductory essay "How to Read This Book" is subtitled "A Note to the Reader from a Concerned Friend." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

With a new publisher, The Miami Herald introduced new graphic design features into their newspaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book "collects and celebrates" selected ephemera, posters, announcements, flyers and objects from the dance culture in England from 1985 to 1995. The artistic styles vary from psychodelic to pop to minimal to punk to concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition catalogue documents a portfolio published by the group on football as well as reproducing photographs of the Rixdorfer Group playing football. Other publications mentioned with photographic reproductions include Dr. phil. Letttaus Sittenjournal, Rixdorfer Gastebuch Nummer 1, an artist book in an edition of 13 that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is designed and published by the author. Using paradox and parody he "graphically portrays the never-ending quarrel over the use of illegible and unconventional typography." Aphorisms by several noted designers are presented by Skjei in creative typographic forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Near the title page, special thanks are printed mentioning Ruth and Marvin Sackner and others for their support of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Near the title page, special thanks are printed mentioning Ruth and Marvin Sackner and others for their support of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poster depicts the text of the title printed in deconstructed letterforms over a stylized beating heart with psychedelic colors in the type and background. This is an example of the "new typography of the nineties." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.