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Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:
Poems 1923-1954: First Complete Edition / cummings, e.e.., 1954
The clippings accompanying the book are reviews. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Poems l905-l962: An Authorized Typewriter Edition of 770 Collected, 45 Uncollected & 20 Unpublished Poems / cummings, e.e., 1973
This book was designed by George James Firmage and contains copious notes about the poems .This is an Authorised Typewriter Edition of 770 Collected, 45 Uncollected and 20 Unpublished Poems Recreated from the "Poet's Manuscripts with Bibliographical and Textual Notes by George James Firmage." This Typewriter Edition is limited to 225 Numbered copies, of which 200 were for sale. Quarter bound in green leather with hessian boards. Gilt titles to spine & gilt "E.E.Cummings" signature to front leather. Green-stained top edge. Beige card endpapers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Poesia e Cosi Sia / Sarenco., 1971
This book provides examples of Sarenco's 1) concrete poems (1963-1968), 2) public poems (1968-1971), 3) poem objects (1968), 4) environmenal poems (1968-1971), 5) body poems (1968-1971), 6) black & white concrete poems (1969), 7) Baroque alphabet poems (1969-1979), 8) worded photographs (1969-1970), 9) picture poems (1971), and 10) experimental music scores (1971). The folded sheet is an announcement from the director's office of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam concerning an exhibition of Sarenco's work who will also curate an exhibition of 20 international poets for the museum from February 1972 to June 1973. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Porte - Voix, 1979
An unusal typeface ws used in this poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
PPPABCXYZ / Smith, Esther K. ; Faust, Dikko., 1989
Ppress Magazine. No.Black / Alan Sondheim, editor ; Waldrop K ; Acconci V ; Coolidge C ; Patterson B ; Waldrop R., 1972
A specimen page mentions the following: "The enclosed plates are hand printed in editions ranging from 1 to 240... This magazine appears only in a continuing edition. Works run out, new ones are added. Ppress remains in a state of flux." The issues are unnumbered and to distinguish the two held by the Sackner Archive, this one is designated as black for color of the typeface on the envelope, the other as red for its typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Print: 50 Years of Graphic Design. No.6/Nov-Dec / Meggs P., 1989
Print: European Regional Design Annual 1997. No.2/Mar-Apr / Brockmann G., 1997
On page 111, a map of the world is depicted solely with the names of countries placed horizontally or vertically with varies sized fonts. It was designed by George Brockmann for an annual report of a business. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Print: Hoping for the Millennium: A Print Parody Issue. No.6/Nov-Dec / Meggs P., 1994
The entire issue is skillfully devoted to a parody of itself, photographers (Duane Michaels, Helmut Newton), graphic designers (Paul Rand), and graphic design companies (Emigre). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Print. No.1/Jan-Feb., 1992
This issue desribes cult magazines, such as Beach Culture and Surfer which have used innovative typography in their design. Philip Meggs reviews "The Elements of Euclid" by William Pickering, a 19th century British book designer and publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Print. No.3/May-Jun / Cage J ; Mayakovsky V ; Werkman HN., 1995
Book and dust jacket design are discussed in an essay by Chip Kidd. Japanese book and poster design which creates "an anti-traditional visual language" by Koga Hirano is described by Steven Heller. Alston Purvis contributes an in-depth essay with 27 illustrations of Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman titled "The Outsider." Werkman's periodicals "The Next Call," (issues are held by Sackner Archive) are described and depicted. In addition, an example of Werkman's typewriter art (1926-1927) is shown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Print. No.5/Sep-Oct / Warhol A ; Helmes S., 1989
Print: Print's European Regional Design Annual. No.1/Jan-Feb / Heller S., 1996
Print: Print's Regional Design Annual. No.5/Sep-Oct / Carol Stevens, editor ; Heller S ; Themerson S ; Themerson F., 1995
Eve Kahn contributes an essay on the funny side of advertising. Stephen Heller writes on the American Design Style 1925-1933. Jan Kubasiewitcz contributes an essay on the history of Themersons' Gaberbocchus Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
printed matter\ drukwerk / Martens, Karel., 1996
This book was first printed in 1996 and reprinted in 1997 (present copy). This 2nd printed copy includes coverage of over 35 years of works by the award-winning Dutch graphic designer, including his essay "What Design Means For Me" (in addition to his partly autobiographical essay). Additional essays by Kinross, Triest, Koosje Sierman and Hugues C. Boekraad; includes bibliography. "Reprinted 1997" (colophon; originally published in 1996). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Printer and Compositor / Enke, Werner., 1994
Werner Enke printed this catalog using letterpress on the occasion of his lectureship at the Graphic Workshop. An element of lead type is collaged to back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Printing at The Whittington Press 1972-1994, 1994
Part 4 includes an annotated listing of the issues of Matrix, a periodical published by the Whittington Press and held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification , 1980
Book describes the craft of letterpress printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification , 1980
This book was sent to master printer Walter Hamady to review for "The American Book Collector" by Daniel Traister, book review editor. Hamady's response to Traister, his refusal to critique the book, and his reaction to the text is described in the correspondence. Furthermore, Hamady mutilated several pages by violently stabbing them with a ball point pen, reversed the dust jacket, wrote scathing opinions in the margins of the text, and returned the volume to Traister. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Printshop in a Cowpasture or, Making Books in the Woods / Robertson, James., 1986
Subject of lecture was the Yolla Bolly Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.