The cards in this catalogue are samples of the nearly 50,000 paper library cards collected and altered with handwriting and images by community volunteers to create wall surfaces in the new San Francisco Library. The card catalogue was replaced with a computer database. "The overlay of hand written citations onto the printed catalogue card manifests the interface of the San Francisco community with their public library collection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue considers six Orisa-Saints of black culture eminating from Brazil and Cuba. Miralda recreates a black cosmology of food, flags, environments, music and maps in installations refecting that culture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Presented as an actual newspaper article, the names of the vessels involved in the fishing incident are printed in traditional calligraphic writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Presented as an actual newspaper article, the names of the vessels involved in the fishing incident are printed in traditional calligraphic writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This drawing of a calligraphic design by Cherry for the Schiff brooch used a perspex background as a reflecting surface. Perspex (plexiglas) was eliminated in the final design but the idea for reflection of Schiff in mirror writing was kept for the final design. The Archive for this work is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The word "Schiff," signifying ship, is printed in stylized calligraphy to resemble the shape of a ship and its reflection in the water. Indexbooks WEB 2011: "One of an edition of 350 signed numbered copies, printed by PKM studios, of a 2 x 12 inch lithographed triple foldout thin card strip with the word "Schiff" in a typeface so that the symmetrical upside down repeat, i.e., reflection, of itself makes for a reflection of itself (as if it were a ship). That's metonymy? Part for whole? Nah. More like metaphor, the word for the thing, i.e., substitution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The word "Schiff," signifying ship, is printed in stylized calligraphy to resemble the shape of a ship and its reflection in the water. ndexbooks WEB 2011: "One of an edition of 350 signed numbered copies, printed by PKM studios, of a 2 x 12 inch lithographed triple foldout thin card strip with the word "Schiff" in a typeface so that the symmetrical upside down repeat, i.e., reflection, of itself makes for a reflection of itself (as if it were a ship). That's metonymy? Part for whole? Nah. More like metaphor, the word for the thing, i.e., substitution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These drawings were done for a sundial sculpture to be made from Portland Stone and Westmorland Slate. The completed sculpture, Umbris Solis, was installed in the National Galleries of Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text was written on translucent paper such that the black ink writings appear like mirror writings owing to transmission through the translucency of the paper. Each page has an illumination in red ink of a single capital letter, S C H R I F T. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ebel accounted for the text and Zielke for the pictures of this book. Its theme is the word 'tiger' found as a component of German words e.g., Tuntiger, Fertiger. These words are written calligraphically and arranged in both orderly and chaotic lists. The pages are black, yellow, and pink color stock and the words are silkscreened onto them in black and white inks. The book is illustrated with several neo-expressionistic images of a tiger. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet celebrates the firsrt ten years of Baroni's involvement with the CD musical recording group, Le Forbici De Manitu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Menu from Chicago restaurant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each drawing consists of black, hand drawn letters or letter forms with the addition of red, blue, yellow or green hand painted abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The images for each month of the year 1999 are colored photographs of graffeti on walls. Halby writes in his essay that the birth of graffiti can be traced to the fifties in New York when young Puerto Rican immigrants protested and drew attention to their desolate condition by spray painting the windows on subway cars. They worked with hectic speed and used bizarre interlocking angular or round letters and signs that came from the world of comics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This calendar reproduces 20 Ex Libris designs from the late 18th and early 19th century. The plates were borrowed mainly from the collection of the Gutenberg-Museum in Maintz and include design styles from Art Nouveau and Expressionist periods as well as embellished calligraphy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.