Publication lists partial holdings of the collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes a review of Black Sparrow Press, particularly their book cover designs, a photo essay on Blackpool urban typography, the typographic designer Berthold Wolpe, the comic strip artist Will Eisner, and the cover essay on the St Bride's Printing Library. The latter collects any materials related to the printing trade. Mafaida Spencer 's essay contrasts the work of Piet Zwart" the designer" and Hendrik Werkman "the artist." The books depicted in this essay are 'Netherlands Cable Work' by Zwart and 'The Next Call' by Werkman, both held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

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.

The book was designed by Willem Sandberg and edited by Jurriaan Schrofer as a festschrift for Piet Zwart on his 80th birthday. It consists mainly of philosophical aphorisms enunciated by Zwart over the years. Its design is in the typical style of Sandberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.