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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 941 Collections and/or Records:

Internationale Ausstellung Neuer Theatertechnik / Freddy Flores Knistoff, curator ; Exter A ; Vesnin A ; Kiesler F ; Schlemmer O., 1975

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Identifier: CC-08387-8553
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of a catalog originally published in 1924. The exhibition was curated by Friedrich Kiesler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Interpretations & Insinuations , 1965

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-22792-23227
Scope and Contents

Bahr explores the background of Adagio Press' pressmark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

I've Been Thinking / Seeger, Dick., 1976

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Identifier: CC-02546-2588
Scope and Contents

A major portion of the text consists of stencilled lettering. Includes a few sections of positive-negative stencilled lettering, similar to the images produced by Ann Noel in her prints. The themes of the book deal mainly with life, love and death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Jade-Sound Poems / Cobbing, Bob., 1984

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Identifier: CC-17557-17923
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of book first published in 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Janus Press 1976-80, The / VanVliet C., 1982

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Identifier: CC-08181-8342
Scope and Contents

Catalogue Raisonne by Ruth Fine Lehrer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Jedermann Sein Eigener Dichter / Enke, Werner., 1981

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Identifier: CC-14062-14367
Scope and Contents

Each page has been cut into five horizontal pagelets with a printed phase in varied typographical styles. By arranging these segments chosen from different pages in this book from top to bottom, over 100,000 permutations of a poem are formed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Joy to You / Langdon, John., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32568-34149
Scope and Contents

Through innovative calligraphy, the title can be read from right to left or vice-versa; Langdon calls this technique an ambigram. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Just My Type: a book about fonts / Garfield, Simon ; Kidd C ; Baines P ; Banks C ; Cobden-Sanderson TJ ; Daines M ; Dwiggens WA ; Frutiger A ; Gill E ; Kindersley D ; Koch R ; Lichtenstein R ; Licko Z ; Lubalin H ; Morris W ; Ono Y ; Peignot C ; Spiekermann E ; Tschichold J ; Vignelli M ; VanderLans R ; Warde B ; Zapf H., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53250-74402
Scope and Contents Rob Hardy Amazon.com review: You are looking at it right now, and if it is doing its job, you don't even notice it. It might represent a creation that has taken centuries to come to its current state of perfection, or it might be something that a dedicated specialist worked on for years and brought out a decade ago. It represents artistry directed within a circumscribed realm. I am talking about the font in which these letters are presented. Thirty years ago, fonts were usually the interest of only a select few in the printing world, but now every computer is charged with fonts and everyone gets to be an amateur typographer (technically, the font is a specific set of metal parts, or digital files, that allows reproduction of letters, and a typeface is the design of letters the font allows you to reproduce, but you can see how the words would get used interchangeably). Simon Garfield is not a professional typographer; his role is bringing out fine nonfiction about, say, stamp...
Dates: 2011

Kinder Kinder: 69 mannliche & weibliche vornamen / Becker, Heinz., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36085-37862
Scope and Contents

Each page lists three proper names with varied typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Kinetic Poems, Pictures and Paintings / Ruutsalo, Eino., 1990

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Identifier: CC-03153-3202
Scope and Contents

Many works held by Sackner Archive are reproduced in this catalogue including "Yellow Nailbox," ABC 123" and several prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Konglomerati: Concrete II: An Anthology. No.1-2 / Richard Mathews, Barbara Russ, editors ; Aldridge A ; Mathews R ; Kostelanetz R ; Russ B ; Beining G ; Brannen J ; Nettelbeck FA ; Grillo P ; Gitin D ; Targowski H ; Kallsen T., 1978

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Identifier: CC-37099-38941
Scope and Contents

In the table of contents, each author was assigned a hieroglyph rather than a page number to point to the contribution. There were 150 numbered copies in the edition, with 26 lettered copies for the contributors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Konsonanten-Chaos / Daniel, Peter., 1991

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Identifier: CC-27728-28838
Scope and Contents

Daniel randomly cut Hebrew letters of various styles and sizes and collaged them onto paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Kontraste / Wolfenter, Friedrich., 1999

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Identifier: CC-35776-37533
Scope and Contents

The word KONTRASTE is printed in two typographic forms. A new word, ROKOKOSSAKKO, is formed vertically from the first letter of each rearranged word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999