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The largest book consists of dictionary pages over which is printed, "Anatole France suggested that the dictionary is the universe in alphabetical order. But life does not come in alphabetical order." The smaller three books consist of photocopied colored prints made from found printed text and images collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book dealing with the Passover song, Chad Gadya, was inspired by the work of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The book celebrates 21 years of the Archetype Press and relates to the legal drinking age of 21. Each page is a typographic recipe for an alcholic beverage. It was produced by undergraduate students at the Art Center College Archetype Press under the direction of Gloria Kondrup. The Sackner copy of the book is the hard cover limited edition version. The other copies are soft cover books. Interview with Gloria Kondrup, Director of Archetype Press in The Dotted Line, official blog of Art Center College of Design: Interviewer: What do you see in the future for Archetype Press? Kondrup: "Unfortunately, the foundry metal type will eventually wear out, become lost or destroyed. But as education continues the digital march forward, the process of letterpress printing will hopefully remain a valuable technology in the study of typography and language, and conventional printing process will continue through the integration photopolymer plates that are digitally created. I see us moving...

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By spreading open the cover one can read the following: "lay open this book - and you will see - typophilia - undisguised - a quaint affliction - illustrated - by mesostich - paeans to - the queen of letters." Each double opened page is printed with a different font of the letter Q and with a large stylized reproduction of part of the font. A mesostic poem on each page contains the name of the 27 typefaces, in alphabetical order, used for the letter Q, e.g., anna, bookman, castellar, didot, eva, felix, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored with Archetype Press material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Esther K Smith was the art director and Dikko Faust did the letterpress and typography for this bookwork by Happersett. The colophon states that "This series of mathematical drawings is based on growth and decay patterns of twigs and the Fibonacci sequence," The books are entitled, "Twig," "Leaf," "Conch," "Bloeman" and "Sprout." Each page of the books is made with additional calligraphic strokes using a progressive Fibonacci sequence page by page to connote the natural history of growth of the plants mentioned in the titles.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Text of book repeats title in letters shaped with human figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Renate Habinger (1957-born in St. Polten ) is an Austrian graphic designer and picture book illustrator .Renate Habinger studied from 1971 to 1975 Graphic Design at the Higher Graphic Federal Education and Research Institute and has since worked as a freelance artist. In 1997 she directed in Oberndorf at the Melk a paper workshop, the "Schneiderhausl", and since then there has workshops in papermaking for children, adolescents and adults. Since 2008, there is an annual summer school for children's book illustration instead. On August 10, 2013, the children's book was opened in Schneiderhausl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Printed in white, black, and blue inks on black and white paper stock. Wagner was working in a Berlin printing press at that time this book was published and did the printing of his books after working hours. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The folded pages unfold into a single sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The font of the letters on the pages has been taken from game of Scrabble. The cover is labeled in crayon as Silkscreen by Miekel And. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The main text on each page is printed in black ink with wood blocks. The smaller text is letterpress in red ink. Each page contains a collage of found fragments enclosed with acetate. Carbone writes in the colophon that we should "observe each piece, bit, scrap, chip, sliver, particle - reduced to tarnished, withered, warped, punctured, frayed, mared, burned, brused, violated, gnawed, impaired, dog-eared, decrepted, corroded, fragments." The book is printed on artwax brown paper (kraft paper) that imparts a pleasant, waxy smell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mira's typography is reminiscent of the Textos/Signos works by Clemente Padin held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of three booklets and a leaflet mounted within the hard covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.