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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 931 Collections and/or Records:

[Untitled] / Monguzzi, Bruno, editor ; Schlemmer O ; Mayakovsky V ; Feininger L., 1992

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Identifier: CC-29493-30858
Scope and Contents

This exhibition presents books and posters designed by Monguzzi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Untitled] / Sych, Paul., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27613-28690
Scope and Contents

This card depicts discernable letterforms, 'E, P and F' that resemble multicolored neon lights. The letters overlay a background of collaged-like forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Ursachen Rauschen, 1990

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Identifier: CC-08199-8360
Scope and Contents

Karl Riha wrote the introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Variations Typographiques Sur deux poemes / Queneau, Raymond ; Fernand, Michel., 1964

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Identifier: CC-03717-3788
Scope and Contents

Typography by Jean Vodaine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations, 1967

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Identifier: CC-62402-47535
Scope and Contents

Flexitype heads [allowing the manipulation and distortion of type] were used in this book in co-operation with Cooper and Beatty. To the knowledge of the Editors of this book, it was the first time that Flexitype has been used in any quantity outside the field of advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Visible Language. No.3 / Niikuni S., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33885-35557
Scope and Contents

Min-Soo Kim contributes an essay on the work of Yi Sang, a korean poet and philosopher whose concepts and experimental poetry "go beyond Dada and concrete poetry." This poetry is oriented to a mathematical approach. Ken Friedman's book "The Fluxus Reader," and Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery's "Imagining Language, an Anthology" are reviewed by Sharon Poggenpohl. An excerpt from Richard Kostelanetz' "A New Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes" is also included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Visible Language. No.4/Fall., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00801-820
Scope and Contents

James Hartley contributes an essay on the favorable effect that the use of a word processor program has on the writing skills of children. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Visible Signs / Crow, David ; Basquiat JM ; Barthes R ; Duchamp M ; Magritte R ; Morris W ; Rand P ; Wittgenstein L., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42648-44666
Scope and Contents

The aim of this book is to introduce the terms and theories relating to visual language in an attempt to help you understand how visual communication works. Visible Signs features a range of contemporary examples of art & design and helps to explain how they work by applying the ideas and theories outlined in the text. The reader is invited to use the stickers on the first page to customize the cover! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri 1st Edition / Soleri, Paolo ; Wall D., 1970

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Identifier: CC-02333-2373
Scope and Contents This is the 1st edition of the book. An extensive review of this book can be found in Eye Magazine volume 8, number 32. Rick Poyner reviews "Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri" by Donald Wall in his essay "The Designer as Architect: The Book as Spectacle." Poyner writes, "Nearly thirty years ago, when Donald Wall created this extraordinary book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a vision of 1990s typography in its most process-driven, radical form...Just to list a few of the book's most striking typographic features is to recall the mannerisms of some of contemporary design's more celebrated figures: text blocks that run into the gutter; words reversed out of columns of type, obliterating the text; words that shoot off the edge of the text area and continue mid-letter on the next line; overlapping messages that merge in dense overlays with Soleri's photos and drawings; a giant Helvetica sentence that rolls on like a juggernaut for nineteen...
Dates: 1970

Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri 2nd Edition / Soleri, Paolo ; Wall D., 1971

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Identifier: CC-02334-2374
Scope and Contents This is the expanded 2nd edition of the book; it is missing the dust jacket. An extensive review of this book can be found in Eye Magazine, volume 8, number 32. Rick Poyner reviews "Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri" by Donald Wall in his essay "The Designer as Architect: The Book as Spectacle." Poyner writes, "Nearly thirty years ago, when Donald Wall created this extraordinary book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a vision of 1990s typography in its most process-driven, radical form...Just to list a few of the book's most striking typographic features is to recall the mannerisms of some of contemporary design's more celebrated figures: text blocks that run into the gutter; words reversed out of columns of type, obliterating the text; words that shoot off the edge of the text area and continue mid-letter on the next line; overlapping messages that merge in dense overlays with Soleri's photos and drawings; a giant Helvetica sentence that...
Dates: 1971

Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri 2nd Edition / Soleri, Paolo ; Wall D., 1971

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Identifier: CC-32855-34469
Scope and Contents This is the expanded 2nd edition of the book; its dust jacket is in fine condition. An extensive review of this book can be found in Eye Magazine, volume 8, number 32. Rick Poyner reviews "Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri" by Donald Wall in his essay "The Designer as Architect: The Book as Spectacle." Poyner writes, "Nearly thirty years ago, when Donald Wall created this extraordinary book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a vision of 1990s typography in its most process-driven, radical form...Just to list a few of the book's most striking typographic features is to recall the mannerisms of some of contemporary design's more celebrated figures: text blocks that run into the gutter; words reversed out of columns of type, obliterating the text; words that shoot off the edge of the text area and continue mid-letter on the next line; overlapping messages that merge in dense overlays with Soleri's photos and drawings; a giant Helvetica sentence...
Dates: 1971

Voir Dire Maelstrom / Griefen, John Adams ; Smith, Esther K. ; Faust, Dikko., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29163-30509
Scope and Contents

The theme of the title is expressed in the stormy, wave-like reliefs on the recto and verso of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Vorwerk 1 & 2, 1991

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Identifier: CC-10237-10440
Scope and Contents

Paragraphs of the text are added to newer paragraphs by overprinting in different horizontal and vertical arrangements with increased or decreased type faces and shadings of ink such that the final pages appear the most dense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991