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This book presents 90 artist and graphic design books, each one on facing pages with varying colored papers and interesting typography. The dust jacket unfolds to a poster and lists the books by year of publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In addition to artist biographies, the catalogue lists book-related resources including collections, presses, catalogues, publications, organizations, bookstores, and supplies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Internet: Enrique Sacerio-Garí is the Dorothy Nepper Marshall Professor of Hispanic and Hispanic-American Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where he has taught since 1977. He is known especially for his work on Jorge Luis Borges, and for his poetry. He introduced and edited a selection of Jorge Luis Borges' early articles in the volume Textos cautivos, Ensayos y resenas en El Hogar. His poetic works include: Comunion (a concrete poem) and Poemas interreales (Pennsylvania, 1981; Madrid, 1999; La Habana, 2004). R -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Diane Crandall's book "Violent Crime," held by the Sackner Archive, is illustrated as a design award winner. Includes an essay by Juanita Dugdale on contemporary graphic design in religious art that utilized concrete and visual poetic themes. The computer generated brochures and books in this issue bear a close resemblence to artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designed by Karen Wilks and edited by Lucy Rix, this book surveys work from the 90s. It is divided into four sections, viz., Type as Composition: designing with words; Type Plus: the alliance of type and imagery; Type as Text: typography as a medium for the reader and writer; Type Itself: recent font designs. A poster by Edward Fella is reproduced in opposition to Neville Brody's typographic magazine, "Fuse." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.