Fabrica is a communication research and development center founded in 1994 by the Benetton Group. At Fabrica young artists and experimenters under 25 gather and develop their creativity and concrete communication pojects in fields that range from cinema, graphic design, industrial design, music, illustration, photography, new media and editorial production...2398 gr. is the title of a book interpreting food - a fundamental cultural and anthropological stimulus. Exploring our relationship with food, the techniques of contemporary art; food as fetish, ritual, dependence, festivity, emotion, pleasure, obsession, chemistry, relation or fear. Or food as landscape, design, a metaphor, a sign, dance and architecture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a napkin designed and lettered by Jan Baker as an advertisement for a beer brewery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to David Moss' explanation in the afterward of the accompanying book, the print was originally designed as a mural for the Akiba Academy in Dallas. The piece was a 45-foot canvas mural in three sections running down the entire central hall. Originally created as a collage using cut, colored papers it was scanned and refined to create the mural as well as the fine art giclee print. the work was inspired by a visit to the Arthur and Metta Jaffe Libraray at Florida Atlantic University. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These are samples of Jan Baker designed textiles created in collaboration with Lori Weitzner for an award winning upholstery fabric collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

An unusal typeface ws used in this poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The texts intermingle the early democratic principles of America' founding fathers with slavery issues. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.