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Graphic design

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 486 Collections and/or Records:

Which One is Different? / Rothman, Joel ; Chwast, Seymour ; Kotowitz, Victor., 1975

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Identifier: CC-48211-69235
Scope and Contents

This book was designed by Seymour Chwast and Victor Kotowitz. The Sackner Archive holds photostats of collages by Kotowitz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Who Nose Marketing? / Anonymous., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32874-34489
Scope and Contents

The cover and pages are cut in the middle to accommodate a pencil sharpener in the shape of a nose that is attached to the last page and presents itself on each page. Wordplay on the nose (knows) is used as a promotion to introduce the principals of the marketing firm that commisioned this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Woman's World: a novel / Rawle, Graham., 2005

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Identifier: CC-62537-47692
Scope and Contents This book is a work of fiction in which all the texts and illustrations are clipped from women's magazines from the 1960's. It resembles the cut-up stories made by William Burroughs except that the flow is deliberate rather than random. Graham Rawle describes the making of the book in an afterward. "I started writing this book in the usual way. When I had completed a rough draft, I then searched through hundreds of women's magazines, cutting out anything that seemed relevant to the scenes I'd written - sentences and phrases that, when joined together, could be rearranged to approximate what I wanted to say. These cuttings were then filed and from them I began to reassemble my story. Little by little, my original words were discarded and replaced by those I'd bound. Once the transition was complete, I could start pasting up the pages as artwork. The method was primitive: scissors and glue. Apart from a little tweaking here and there to enlarge very small type to a readable size,...
Dates: 2005

World Design Conference Tokyo 1960 / Ernst, Jupp, editor ; Roh F ; Moholy-Nagy L ; Ray M ; Albers J., 1962

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Identifier: CC-60752-10003605
Scope and Contents

Most of the illustrations in this book were done by students. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

World Geo-Graphic Atlas / Bayer, Herbert, editor., 1953

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Identifier: CC-23787-24235
Scope and Contents

According to the critic, Arthur Cohen, this Atlas is a masterpiece of cartographic clarity. It achieves a brillant integration of diffuse and complex information through a precisely conceived iconography unparalled in a work of such scope. None of the copies were for sale. The book is inscribed to Jose Luis Sert, born July 1, 1902, Barcelona - died March 15, 1983, Barcelona. Spanish-born American architect noted for his work in city planning and urban development. After graduation from the School of Architecture, Barcelona (1929), Sert worked with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Paris. From 1929 to 1937 he had his own architectural office in Barcelona; works from the period include apartment houses in Barcelona, "¦ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1953

Your Name Here / Mohawk Paper Mills., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32007-33538
Scope and Contents

This catalogue demonstrates typographic and graphic designs on various weights and shades of Mohawk Superfine papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998