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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 940 Collections and/or Records:

Wheeling, 1992

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Identifier: CC-07329-7473
Scope and Contents

Theme deals with the rise and fall of the automobile in American culture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Winter 93-94 / Purgatory Pie Press ; Faust D ; Smith EK ; Dervaux I ; Cherches P ; Sackner MA ; Ely T., 1994

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Identifier: CC-04716-4805
Scope and Contents

Marvin Sackner published his famous "Chicken Soup" postcard with PPP in 1987. The Sackner Archive is listed in "Collections." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Wordrobe, 1997

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Identifier: CC-29670-31045
Scope and Contents

This exhibition, curated by Richard Martin, inegrates texts and textiles with stunning fashion designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Words Fail Me / Monachino, Teresa., 2006

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Identifier: CC-47024-49762
Scope and Contents Amazon.com review: WORDS FAIL ME by Teresa Monachino, is a collection of mind-teasing wordplay designed to artfully manipulate the unpredictability of the English language. Award-winning designer and typographer Teresa Monachino has always been baffled by the English language's contradictions and peculiarities. Words do not mean what they say--the middle letters of believe spell lie. Words have the same spelling but differ in both pronunciation and meaning--minute is both miniscule and a measurement of time. Words are paired together redundantly--empty space or honest truth. WORDS FAIL ME is a witty collection of these unruly words, all set in Monachino's immaculate typography, that demonstrate the offbeat nature of the English language. Questions of spelling, pronunciation or the blatantly nonsensical are illustrated through clever visual representations that are created entirely through artfully manipulated typography. This playful and sometimes hilarious text sorts the homonyms...
Dates: 2006

Working with Computer Type 3: Color & Type / Carter, Rob ; Duchamp M., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30283-31692
Scope and Contents

This handbook illustrates and explains how various combinations of type and color affect the clarity, mood, and readability of a design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Worte Worte Worte - words, words, words / Spencer, Herbert ; Goethe J ; Themerson S., 1972

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Identifier: CC-39682-41642
Scope and Contents

Each page is minimally laid out with text from mostly classic writers that consists of aphorisms about words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Writing through Finnegans Wake / Cage, John ; Joyce J., 1978

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Identifier: CC-16658-17013
Scope and Contents

The mesostic line is "James Joyce." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Your Name Here / Mohawk Paper Mills., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32007-33538
Scope and Contents

This catalogue demonstrates typographic and graphic designs on various weights and shades of Mohawk Superfine papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Zaoumni by Velimir Klebnikov / Caine, Michael; Da Ros, Francois; Catherine Prigent, translator., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36673-38487
Scope and Contents

The poems of Khlebnikov were translated from the Russian Zaum language of Khlebnikov to French using varied type faces. The illustrations are abstract engravings in earth colors, with imagery reminiscent of prints by Stanley Hayter. The colophon is printed in the layout of a Russian ferro-concrete poem. This edition is one of 60 printed on grand papier either Moulin du Verger of Somerset. Ten examples were printed of Japon Bunkosbi and 10 on Japon paper made by hand in China. The Japon de tete had smaller dimensions with an additional set of 13 engravings done in black and white. Twenty copies were also produced on Lanagravure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Zaum / Segay, Serge., 1997

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Identifier: CC-60725-10003576
Scope and Contents

This work was taken from the Archive of O!!Zone 1997. Stored in Segay box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Zeichen Fur Zeichen / Reichert, Josua, editor; Coply, W.; Arp, H.; Bissier, J.; Bogatzki; Capogrossi; Gaul, W.; Greishaber, H; Hoehme, G.; Kalinowski, H.; Reichart, J.; Schultz., 1963

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Identifier: CC-61488-50966
Scope and Contents

Published in conjunction with the Schift und Bild Exhibition held in Baden-Baden, West Germany in 1962. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Zivot Je Kolaz / Das Leben ist eine Collage / Trinkewitz, Karel ; Weiss C ; Bense M., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34506-36204
Scope and Contents

Christina Weiss and Max Bense contributed introductory essays for the catalogue. On page 105, a letter from Marvin Sackner to Trinkewitz in 1985 is included in the collage titled "Ehrung fur Andre Breton." The work also includes a sketch of Jiri Kolar packing a work for Marvin Sackner that Trinkewitz made while the Sackners visited Kolar's studio and Karel served as the translator. The brochures, placed separately between several pages, are gallery invitations to exhibitions of Trinkewitz's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Zum Ballspeil, 1989

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Identifier: CC-39876-41843
Scope and Contents

The first section of the book consists of typographic work and photo-documentation of soccer activities of the group. The second section reproduces press work from 1976 to 1988. Several pieces held by in the Sackner Archive are reproduced including "Dr.phil. Lettaus Sittenjournal." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Zum Lesen sind Verietzungen unumgagnglich / Hoffmann, Suitbert ; Elsas, Wolfgang., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35839-37599
Scope and Contents

This copy is cut on the foredge of the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Zum Lesen sind Verietzungen unumgagnglich / Hoffmann, Suitbert ; Elsas, Wolfgang., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35840-37600
Scope and Contents

This issue is uncut on the foredge of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998