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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:

Shadow of a Sound / Voznesensky, Andrei., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-40915-42892
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds an unsigned copy of the book. Both covers depict the same photographic portrait of the poet but the shading and cropping differ. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Shalom / Richard C.., 1989

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Identifier: CC-03173-3222
Scope and Contents

The word "Shalom" is rubberstamped in English with pseudo-Hebrew letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Signes: Special Festival de Chaumont. No.4 / Obalk H., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29490-30855
Scope and Contents

The issue has a supplement by Hector Obalk entitled, "Sensible a la Typographie." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Silver Flower Coo / Ford, Charles Henri., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-11463-11679
Scope and Contents

Each page is composed of text of varying size fonts and styles of "words and readymade phrases in magic paste-ups." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Sixpointoneoctoberone / Reese, Harry., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-03274-3323
Scope and Contents

Title refers to San Francisco earthquake Oct. 1, 1989 which was 6.1 on the Richter scale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Small Press Books: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, 1988

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Identifier: CC-01842-1878
Scope and Contents

Contains interview of Steve Clay and Merce Dostak, proprietors of Granary Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Smashed / Sych, Paul., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27605-28682
Scope and Contents

The poster depicts the typographically stretched word, 'smashed' overlaying an image of a broken bottle and fabric with psychodelic colors making up the background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[So, where will I go] / Campo, Allan; Campo, Donna., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31277-32748
Scope and Contents

This is a thank you message composed by the Campos after a visit to the Sackner Archive. The message is printed in varying type faces and reads, "So where will I go with my feelings. No idea at all. Accuse Moi? The charge: too much wonder. Guilty! There are no words, only gratitude..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Sock & Kiss / Fluke, Gordon, editor; Risseeuw, John L., editor; Bruggeman I; Carter S; Chen J; Ellis EV; Fluke G; Golden A; Hardwick T; Honn T; King S; Licher B; O'Connell M; Phelan M; Price R; Reese H; Risseeuw J; Schneider U; Smith EK; Faust D; Stern C; Tetenbaum B; Tisdale W; VanVleit C; Kennedy APjr; Faye JR; Stolz U., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36694-38508
Scope and Contents

This portfolio, solicited and collated by Fluke and Risseeuw, was shown for the first time at the Cortona International Print Symposium: A Print Odyssey 2001. The editors define sock as "...in printing, the use of heavy pressure, usually on dampened paper, to drive types that may be uneven or worn deep into the paper for a readable text." They defined Kiss as "...in printing, a light impression with just enough pressure to transfer the ink from type to paper, leaving no permanent indentation in the paper." The paper stock for the prints varies widely as do the techniques of printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Soleil! Soleil! / Saura, Salvador, editor ; Torrente, Ramon, editor., 1986

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Identifier: CC-35835-37595
Scope and Contents

This book was first published in Mallorca, Spain by Edicions de l'Eixample in 1983. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Some Came to Stay / Crombie, John., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42101-44102
Scope and Contents

In the preface, Crombie states, "These rhymes were concocted as a pretext for a sequence of fantastical creatures inspired and printed from patterned vinyl wallpaper. " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003