Scope and Contents This periodical was published twice yearly as a survey of historic design style and typography and its influence on contemporary graphic design. Various Mohawk papers and printing techniques were employed in this outstanding esthetically appealing example of graphic design. Design & Style's mission was to examine the relationship between printing technology and graphic style. The cover of this volume depict a cut-out version of a streamlined locomotive. The text traces the streamline style as deriving from "Modernism, as extolled by Futurism, Constructivism, De Stijl and Bauhaus, [that] was exported to America via books, annuals and the many proponents of the movement who emigrated to New York and Chicago, Their distinctly European ideas were wed to the developing American design forms, resulting in a pluralistic but distinct period style - a blend of the decorative and the austere, the modern and the moderne, the geometric and the biomorphic." -- Source of annotation: Marvin...

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Insight, inspiration, and wit from over one hundred designers, artists, and other relevant thinkers about the art, craft, process, business, and controversy of design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.

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This book is designed and published by the author. Using paradox and parody he "graphically portrays the never-ending quarrel over the use of illegible and unconventional typography." Aphorisms by several noted designers are presented by Skjei in creative typographic forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ellen Shapiro contirbuted an essay, "Posterity's Yiddishkeit," dealing with the Yiddish Book Center. In it, she mentions and reproduces the cover of a facsimile edition of El Lissitzky's "Yingle Tsingl Khvat." The Sackner Archive holds the second edition of this book published in Warsaw. It is a children's story in verse about a boy named Tsingl Dhvat who brought winter to his village. Juanita Dugdale writes about the English craft of lettercutting in stone and mentions the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. This issue features a large section that reproduces computer screens on the Internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains essay by Philip Meggs on El Lissitzky's "For The Voice" which provides an English translation of its content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ellen Lupton reviewed The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946. Steven Heller contributed an interview with Rick Poynor, design writer and editor of Eye Magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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El Lissitzky's poster "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge" pictured on page 11 is same design as the poster held in the Sackner Archive. The poster reproduced but not displayed in the exhibition, is from the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The core of this exhibition of posters originates from the collection of Merrill C. Berman who also provides an interview with Alma Law on collecting such works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jan Tschichold has written a section of the journal devoted to the work of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a profusely illustrated, well documented catalogue of Lissitzky's life and works. The works depicted in this catalogue, which are held by the Sackner Archive, include "Pressa Cologne, Six Tales with Easy Endings, For the Voice, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, and All Union Printing Trade Exhibition." Works formerly held by the Sackner Archive include "Of Two Squares, Had Gadya 1923, Proun 2C, Yingl Tsingl Khvat, and Wendingen." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Teal Triggs contributes an essay on British small magazines (fanzines). She states that the term fanzine was first coined by Russ Chauvenet in the United States in 1941 to describe mimeographed publications devoted primarily to science fiction and super hero comic enthusiasts. Today, it has come to mean a periodical that embraces any subject faithful to the specific interests of the "fans." Frances Butler contributes an essay, "New Demotic Typography: The Search for New Indices." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.