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The essay by Monica J. Strauss traces the successful collaboration between fine and commercial artists in Germany between the wars and questions the "rigid distinctions between art and design" in contemporary times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition was organized around questions of form, function, and medium and focused on designers beginning their careers in the 1980s and 1990s. The first section dealt with messages on the street, graphic design competing for public attention. Next, typography was analyzed, the art of creating letters for reproduction and organizing them in space. The third section of the book considered the chief social function of design: to visualize the identity of institutions and audiences. The last chapter looked at publishing including books, magazines and computers. Selected interviews with noted graphic designers appear in the final section of the book. Pages of the following items, which are held by the Sackner Archive, "Through Light and the Alphabet" by Johanna Drucker, the 1989 Time Warner Annual Report, and the Independent Project Press are reproduced. In...

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This booklet was given to visitors at the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Detailed description of Zwart's catalog for NKF which is held by the Sackner Archive. Also described and held by the Sackner Archive is Zwart's catalog for PTT. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Text by Arthur A. Cohen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to the critic, Arthur Cohen, this Atlas is a masterpiece of cartographic clarity. It achieves a brillant integration of diffuse and complex information through a precisely conceived iconography unparalled in a work of such scope. None of the copies were for sale. The book is inscribed to Jose Luis Sert, born July 1, 1902, Barcelona - died March 15, 1983, Barcelona. Spanish-born American architect noted for his work in city planning and urban development. After graduation from the School of Architecture, Barcelona (1929), Sert worked with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Paris. From 1929 to 1937 he had his own architectural office in Barcelona; works from the period include apartment houses in Barcelona, "¦ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.