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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:

Lettering Design; Form & Skill in the Design & Use of Letters / Harvey, Micheal., 1975

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Identifier: CC-46454-49183
Scope and Contents This well illustrated book was written by Michael Harvey, the major lettering collaborator of Ian Hamilton Finlay. However, no examples of Finlay's work appear in this book.Wikipedia: Michael Harvey MBE (born 1931, died 18 October 2013) was an English lettering artist, teacher and writer specialising in lettering, type design and letter cutting. His work appears in many English cathedrals and on the National Gallery, London.Originally inspired by reading Eric Gill's Autobiography, he worked as Reynolds Stone's assistant between 1955 and 1961. He then became a freelance, producing some 1500 hand-lettered book jackets over the next twenty years for major publishers such as Heinemann, The Bodley Head and Cambridge University Press. As technology changed he developed his interest in type, producing designs for Adobe Systems and The Monotype Corporation and later, with Andy Benedek for his own foundry, Finefonts. His inscriptional work included a long collaboration with Ian Hamilton...
Dates: 1975

Letters from the Avant Garde: Modern Graphic Design / Lupton, Ellen ; Cohen, Elaine Lustig ; Bayer H ; Berlewi H ; Breton A ; Cangiullo F ; VanDoesburg T ; Delaunay S ; Depero F ; Dexel W ; Hausmann R ; Lissitzky E ; Lustig A ; Marinetti FT ; Munari B ; Peret B ; Rodchenko A ; Schwitters K ; Tzara T ; Werkman HN ; Zwart P ; Tschichold J ; Baader J ; Cervelli F ; Kassak L ; Peeters J ; Sankowsky A ; Strzeminski W ; Sutnar L ; Seuphor M ; Huszar V ; Schuitema P ; Moholy-Nagy L ; Schmidt J., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28006-29159
Scope and Contents

The authors write that stationery for the avant garde 20th century movements served as typographic manifestos and reflected the artists' and designers' ambitions to merge art into life and to create visual identities for themselves. This book contains an international avant-garde net-work time line that diagrams the interaction of the major movements and artists. The reproductions of the poster, "Kleine Dada Soiree" by Schwitters and Van Doesburg and the brochure, "Reklame Mechano" by Henryk Berlewi in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Letters Patterns Structures / Topel, Andrew., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50179-71243
Scope and Contents

These poems were subsequently collected as a booklet version in 10 proof copies as a proof copy an -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Letters to the Ether/Other, 1996

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Identifier: CC-07687-7837
Scope and Contents

Laxson writes that the "Letters to the Ether Other" first existed as one-of-a-kind bas relief wall pieces... This small edition is a spin off of that work printed while the hand-set type was still in tack on various papers found around the studio." Each page is presented as a combination folded letter with a black printed envelope waiting to be mailed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Letterwork: Creative Letterforms in Graphic Design / Neuenschwander, Brody, editor ; Currie, Leonard, designer ; Quay, David, designer ; Baines P ; Brody N ; Burgert HJ ; Chase M ; Greiman A ; Lutz HR ; Massoudy H ; Reichert J ; Cutler-Shaw J ; Waters J ; Zapf H ; Skarsgard S ; Schmidt H., 1994

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Identifier: CC-32650-34236
Scope and Contents

This book is concerned with making letters and letterforms for specific purposes, including handwritten, computer generated, cut and torn, constructed, photocopied and faxed, painted and sprayed. The editor states in the first section of the book that letterforms communicate their emotional content before their verbal content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Lift and Separate: Graphic Design and the Vernacular (Quote Unquote) / Heller S ; Lupton E., 1993

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Identifier: CC-28178-29341
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by Barbara Glauber. The topics covered in this experimentally designed catalogue, with varied typefaces and layout approaches, include "The Anonymous Profession" by Steven Heller, "Roadside Culture" by George LaRou and "Anarch-Graffiti in New York City's Lower East Side" by John Dale and Margaret Morton. The themes mainly deal with the influence of outdoor sign designs, logographs, and advertisements of graphic designs as a whole. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[Like snowflakes floating...] / Williams, Madelyn., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40188-42158
Scope and Contents

This is a particularly creative appeal from a deliverer of the New York Times to the mother of Ruth Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

List 16: Ars Typographia; Fine Printing / Ursus Rare Books ; Ginsberg A ; Grabhorn R ; Hoyem A ; Abbott E ; Bradbury R ; Pound E ; Joyce J ; Mark E ; Mayakovsky V ; Beckett S ; Kaldewey G ; Koch P ; Lissitzky E ; Mutel D ; Zapf H., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30149-31548
Scope and Contents

The presses are listed alphabetically and include works from Arion Press, Black Sun Press, Gehenna Press, Kaldewey Press and Mutel Art Books. A detailed description of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Didier Mutel is included. The Sackner Archive holds both the English and French version of this extraordinary book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996