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Typography

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:

Visible Language. No.3 / Niikuni S., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33885-35557
Scope and Contents

Min-Soo Kim contributes an essay on the work of Yi Sang, a korean poet and philosopher whose concepts and experimental poetry "go beyond Dada and concrete poetry." This poetry is oriented to a mathematical approach. Ken Friedman's book "The Fluxus Reader," and Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery's "Imagining Language, an Anthology" are reviewed by Sharon Poggenpohl. An excerpt from Richard Kostelanetz' "A New Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes" is also included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Visible Language. No.4/Fall., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00801-820
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James Hartley contributes an essay on the favorable effect that the use of a word processor program has on the writing skills of children. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Visible Signs / Crow, David ; Basquiat JM ; Barthes R ; Duchamp M ; Magritte R ; Morris W ; Rand P ; Wittgenstein L., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42648-44666
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The aim of this book is to introduce the terms and theories relating to visual language in an attempt to help you understand how visual communication works. Visible Signs features a range of contemporary examples of art & design and helps to explain how they work by applying the ideas and theories outlined in the text. The reader is invited to use the stickers on the first page to customize the cover! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri 1st Edition / Soleri, Paolo ; Wall D., 1970

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Identifier: CC-02333-2373
Scope and Contents This is the 1st edition of the book. An extensive review of this book can be found in Eye Magazine volume 8, number 32. Rick Poyner reviews "Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri" by Donald Wall in his essay "The Designer as Architect: The Book as Spectacle." Poyner writes, "Nearly thirty years ago, when Donald Wall created this extraordinary book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a vision of 1990s typography in its most process-driven, radical form...Just to list a few of the book's most striking typographic features is to recall the mannerisms of some of contemporary design's more celebrated figures: text blocks that run into the gutter; words reversed out of columns of type, obliterating the text; words that shoot off the edge of the text area and continue mid-letter on the next line; overlapping messages that merge in dense overlays with Soleri's photos and drawings; a giant Helvetica sentence that rolls on like a juggernaut for nineteen...
Dates: 1970

Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri 2nd Edition / Soleri, Paolo ; Wall D., 1971

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Identifier: CC-32855-34469
Scope and Contents This is the expanded 2nd edition of the book; its dust jacket is in fine condition. An extensive review of this book can be found in Eye Magazine, volume 8, number 32. Rick Poyner reviews "Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri" by Donald Wall in his essay "The Designer as Architect: The Book as Spectacle." Poyner writes, "Nearly thirty years ago, when Donald Wall created this extraordinary book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a vision of 1990s typography in its most process-driven, radical form...Just to list a few of the book's most striking typographic features is to recall the mannerisms of some of contemporary design's more celebrated figures: text blocks that run into the gutter; words reversed out of columns of type, obliterating the text; words that shoot off the edge of the text area and continue mid-letter on the next line; overlapping messages that merge in dense overlays with Soleri's photos and drawings; a giant Helvetica sentence...
Dates: 1971

Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri 2nd Edition / Soleri, Paolo ; Wall D., 1971

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Identifier: CC-02334-2374
Scope and Contents This is the expanded 2nd edition of the book; it is missing the dust jacket. An extensive review of this book can be found in Eye Magazine, volume 8, number 32. Rick Poyner reviews "Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri" by Donald Wall in his essay "The Designer as Architect: The Book as Spectacle." Poyner writes, "Nearly thirty years ago, when Donald Wall created this extraordinary book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a vision of 1990s typography in its most process-driven, radical form...Just to list a few of the book's most striking typographic features is to recall the mannerisms of some of contemporary design's more celebrated figures: text blocks that run into the gutter; words reversed out of columns of type, obliterating the text; words that shoot off the edge of the text area and continue mid-letter on the next line; overlapping messages that merge in dense overlays with Soleri's photos and drawings; a giant Helvetica sentence that...
Dates: 1971

Voir Dire Maelstrom / Griefen, John Adams ; Smith, Esther K. ; Faust, Dikko., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29163-30509
Scope and Contents

The theme of the title is expressed in the stormy, wave-like reliefs on the recto and verso of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Vorwerk 1 & 2, 1991

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Identifier: CC-10237-10440
Scope and Contents

Paragraphs of the text are added to newer paragraphs by overprinting in different horizontal and vertical arrangements with increased or decreased type faces and shadings of ink such that the final pages appear the most dense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Vous Souhaitent une Bonne Annee / Lecointre, Didier ; Drouet, Dominique., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38690-40600
Scope and Contents

Every other line in this new year greeting is printed on the verso, creating frontward and backward lines of text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Vous Souhaitent une Bonne Annee / Lecointre, Didier; Drouet, Dominique., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36664-38478
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The letters of the engraving are green and the background is red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Voyelles by Arthur Rimbaud / Koch, Peter, editor., 1989

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Identifier: CC-07866-8019
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This poem is based upon the five vowel sounds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

War, the musical / Fitterman, Robert ; Rowntree, Dirk., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62661-48788
Scope and Contents Notes on this book by Robert Fitterman - web site: Dirk & I have a very active, over-the-shoulder style of collaboration. As with our earlier project, cedars estate (www.ubu.com), Dirk & I tend to sit in front of the computer together and look at images and text and have conversations about the implications of each choice. In War, the musical I produced a text, first, comprised solely of web language, and Dirk also chose to compose with mostly downloadable, digitized images. The intersections became complex when we discussed the larger frame of our thinking processes. For instance, Dirk became engaged with ideas about commodification and institutional critique that echo my own ideas about how we, as Americans, process war through media. Dirk saw, in the text, an engagement with the media that he, in turn, wanted to maximize in the design of the book. The blank pages, black pages, odd ball fonts, etc., all contribute to his interest in presenting a "product" that draws our...
Dates: 2006

watching words move / Chermayoff, Ivan ; Geismar, Tom., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42490-44505
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This booklet was first published in 1959 as a handmade typographic notebook of pasted upletters and words in one size typeface. In 1962, it was published as an insert in Typographica magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

[Wedding Invitation] / Karsch, Benjamin; Sharabi, Liat., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28723-30029
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This is an invitation to the wedding of Ruth Sackner's nephew in Israel designed by the artist calligrapher, Denni Ann Gershaw. One sheet on parchment paper is designed with the Hebrew letters Lamed and Vav, the first initials of the bride Liat and the groom Benjamin. These two letters also spell "heart" in Hebrew and it is the first word from a quote from the Book of Psalms which is written in calligraphy around the two letters. This motif is repeated on the second sheet, the actual wedding invitation, as an under printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Westvaco: Inspirations for Printers. No. 191-202 / Bayer H ; Cassandre AM ; Held Jjr ; Lubalin H ; Matter H ; Steinberg S ; Thompson B ; Brodovich A ; Dwiggens WA ; Miro J ; Picasso P., 1953 - 1955

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Identifier: CC-43978-46089
Scope and Contents This book is a compilation of printed material from journals of West Virginia Paper from the years 1953, 1954 and 1955, including cover designs and pages. Bradbury Thompson designed the cover and index of the book. The index describes and lists the contributors in the following categories: artists and photographers, illustrations, subject headings, engraving processes and type faces. The text conveys the importance of print, ink and paper in mid-20th century America. For example, in issue 194 one reads,"To the sculpture, stone is a cosmic force crying for form. The strokes of Michelangelo's chisel unlocked ideas from marble that remain as valid today as four centuries ago. Great works af art provide mankind with imperishable riches because, as expressions of eternal ideas, they retain a constant value for every time. Printing, too, endows the human spirit with a legacy of indestructible ideas. The currency of thought in every age is minted by the printing press. Ink and papers...
Dates: 1953 - 1955

What I Did This Summer / Number Seventeen., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44090-46208
Scope and Contents

Number Seventeen is a design study in NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005