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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:

The Hand Correspondence: Voyeur / Golden, Alisa., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10429-10633
Scope and Contents

This is one of a series of three books; the others are entitled "Mirror Error" and "Paper Has a Memory." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Ideal Book / Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-17368-17732
Scope and Contents

This book was printed with 63 press runs in numerous colors using type, lino- and magnesium-cuts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

The Illustrated Books / Miro, Joan ; Iliazd., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-05988-6102
Scope and Contents

Le Courtism Grotesque a collaboration between Miro and Iliazd is described in detail in this brochure introducing the catalogue raisonne of Miro's illustrated books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., on purple], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19933-20321
Scope and Contents

The background color of this print is purple; the text is the same on all the prints with tis title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Journal of Albion Moonlight fifth edition, 1941

 Item
Identifier: CC-55674-9999271
Scope and Contents

This is an anti-war novel in which the sense of the progression of time is exluded, i.e., characters appear to have died but resurface on later pages as if they never died at all. The book is a masterpiece of experimental writing on a par with the experimental fiction of James Joyce. This is the fifth editon, the number of copies is unknown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1941

The Looking Book: A Pocket History of Circle Press 1967--1996 / Courtney, Cathy, editor ; King R ; Christie J ; Fisher R ; Furnival A ; Furnival J ; Phillips T ; Ackerman M ; Tyson I ; Clark TA ; Rothenberg J ; Eigner L ; Cutts S ; Lurie T., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27866-29004
Scope and Contents

Cathy Courtney researched the history and developments of the Circle Press by its creator, Ron King. She wrote this book as part of the London Institute's Research Project "The Art of the Book 1960 to the Present Day" based at Camberwell College of Arts in collaboration with the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. The opening section describes Ron King's background, how he started the press and his relationships with collaborating artists. Following chapters describe specific bookworks including the following held by the Sackner Archive: Scenes from the Alphabet, posters and pamphlets, Bluebeard's Castle, Sports et Divertissements, The White Alphabet and Anansi Company. The Circle Press Books are well documented and illustrated throughout this artistically presented volume . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The New Architectural Monuments of Baltimore City / Williams, Jonathan; Sparks, John., 1969

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Identifier: CC-00426-437
Scope and Contents

The images of the prints depict fantastic buildings after the style of the artist, Claes Oldenburg, to whom this work is dedicated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The One-Stop Store / Mohawk Paper Mills., 1993

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Identifier: CC-32076-33611
Scope and Contents

This catalogue demonstrates typographic and graphic designs on various weights and shades of Mohawk Superfine papers. The theme of the book is the country store. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Philadelphia Love / Indiana, Robert., 1975

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Identifier: CC-08365-8531
Scope and Contents

Folio contains offset lithographic version of Indiana's "Love" poem and "Wherefore the Punctuation of the Heart." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Portrait Series: Brother Blue, 1995

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Identifier: CC-07688-7838
Scope and Contents

This is a biography of real and imagined events in the life of Brother Blue aka Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill, the "official storyteller of Boston, an ordained minister and raconteur who spins tales of struggle and hope on street corners and in prisons..." Text deals with Black struggles in White America. Primary type family for voice of Brother Blue is Matrix by Emigre. Over 24 other typefaces were utilized for the text; images and text were printed with scanner and desktop publishing software. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Portrait Series: Charlie, 1995

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Identifier: CC-07691-7841
Scope and Contents

This is a biography of the real and imagined events in the life of Charlie Lang. The story line deals with the manic-depressive illness of Lang who was a rock musician and an outsider artist. A section covers his institutilization and treatment with psychotropic drugs. The typeface for the voice of Charlie is Gill Sans and over 24 other typefaces are used as well. The images and text were created with scanner and desktop publishing software. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Public Theatre / Scher, Paula, designer., 1998

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Identifier: CC-34504-36202
Scope and Contents

This publication consists of the design material for three seasons of theater presentations in an "evolving graphic language developed and produced by Paula Scher and her design team at Pentagram." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog and Other Daring Ideas: The Emigre Catalogue 1984 - 2002 / Emigre ; Licko Z ; Fella E ; Baines P ; Greiman A ; Bell N ; Heller S ; Burdick A ; Poynor R ; VanderLans R ; Drucker J ; McCoy K., 2002

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Identifier: CC-48518-69547
Scope and Contents

This catalogue features the entire collection of Emigre typefaces to 2002. The quotes presented by known typographic designers and scholars are from articles and interviews published in Emigre magazine issues 12 through 53. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The QWERTY Institute Annual Report / Szczepaniak, Angela., 2012

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Identifier: CC-54755-990183
Scope and Contents

From the back cover as described by The QWERTY Fanciers Association: A graphic expose on the secret life of letters between the covers. Inside The QUERTY Institute you will find typefaces at their most lascivious - consonants consorting with vowels, flagrant fonts shamelessly embossing in plain sight, linguistically nimble labials and gutturals given to licentious acts of graphology....It must be seen to be belived! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012