John Walters contributes a lengthy, well illustrated essay, "Sound, code, image," that describes visual musical scores that composers use to liberate their sound from its five-line grid. He claims these scores are graphic designs of music. Steven Heller traces the history of picture magazines from German, Russian, Dutch and finally the American Life magazine. He notes that these visual narratives succeeded until the advent of television. Julia Thrift describes the radical magazines published for political purposes on duplicators, copy machines and now on the internet in her essay, "Do-it-yourself." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Book and dust jacket design are discussed in an essay by Chip Kidd. Japanese book and poster design which creates "an anti-traditional visual language" by Koga Hirano is described by Steven Heller. Alston Purvis contributes an in-depth essay with 27 illustrations of Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman titled "The Outsider." Werkman's periodicals "The Next Call," (issues are held by Sackner Archive) are described and depicted. In addition, an example of Werkman's typewriter art (1926-1927) is shown. -- 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.