On each page, the student has rendered a typographic composition within a rectangle, 10.2 cm x 7.2 cm (and sometimes overflowing outside these limits). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book designed by Harley Parker is a contemporaneous parody of Wyndham Lewis' Vorticist magazine Blast. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a parody of Wyndham Lewis' magazine "Blast," with its contents dealing with communication and the Information Age. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This short explanation by Henninger explains the often misquoted title of McLuhan's book, "The Medium is the Massage." The "Medium is the Message appeared in his large 1964 book, "Understanding Media." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Printed on gray paper; the Sackner Archive also has a copy printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letters reprinted in chronologic order with minimal annotations were selected and edited by Matie Molinari, Corinne McLuhan and William Toye. They provide a background to McLuhans's life and intellectual growth and reveal his staggering knowledge of the literature of the great writers and thinkers who inspired him to achieve his penetrating insights into the age of electronic communication and become its most renowned interpreter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints are photographic reproductions of some of the works in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This profusely illustrated book dealing with the power of the media, written over 32 years ago at the time of writing this annotation still is current in thought today. Thus, McLuhan writes on page 67, "The new interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This profusely illustrated book dealing with the power of the media, written over 32 years ago at the time of writing this annotation still is current in thought today. Thus, McLuhan writes on page 67, "The new interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue deals largely with the "new" digital typography and communications revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Features calligraphic script in a number of styles along with line drawings that appear to be pages taken from a sketch book. Elbert Walker is the name of a well known mathematics professor; perhaps, he was the author of this piece since there are several mathematic references in the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Flexitype heads [allowing the manipulation and distortion of type] were used in this book in co-operation with Cooper and Beatty. To the knowledge of the Editors of this book, it was the first time that Flexitype has been used in any quantity outside the field of advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Flexitype heads [allowing the manipulation and distortion of type] were used in this book in co-operation with Cooper and Beatty. To the knowledge of the Editors of this book, it was the first time that Flexitype has been used in any quantity outside the field of advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first edition of this text by the authors of "The Medium is the Massage." It brings together all forms of conflict, political, racial, and religious, into meaningful perspective. It offers ideas and an understanding essential to the "electric age." The ideas presented in this book seem to forecast the information age and even the advent of the Internet. The text is combined with multiple black and white images and includes many relevant quotations in the margins from James Joyce's "Finnagan's Wake." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.