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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 931 Collections and/or Records:

Vous Souhaitent une Bonne Annee / Lecointre, Didier; Drouet, Dominique., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36664-38478
Scope and Contents

The letters of the engraving are green and the background is red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Vous Souhaitent une Bonne Annee / Lecointre, Didier ; Drouet, Dominique., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38690-40600
Scope and Contents

Every other line in this new year greeting is printed on the verso, creating frontward and backward lines of text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Voyelles, 1989

 Item — Box 620: [Barcode: 31858072461076]
Identifier: CC-07866-8019
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon the five vowel sounds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

War, the musical / Fitterman, Robert ; Rowntree, Dirk., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62661-48788
Scope and Contents Notes on this book by Robert Fitterman - web site: Dirk & I have a very active, over-the-shoulder style of collaboration. As with our earlier project, cedars estate (www.ubu.com), Dirk & I tend to sit in front of the computer together and look at images and text and have conversations about the implications of each choice. In War, the musical I produced a text, first, comprised solely of web language, and Dirk also chose to compose with mostly downloadable, digitized images. The intersections became complex when we discussed the larger frame of our thinking processes. For instance, Dirk became engaged with ideas about commodification and institutional critique that echo my own ideas about how we, as Americans, process war through media. Dirk saw, in the text, an engagement with the media that he, in turn, wanted to maximize in the design of the book. The blank pages, black pages, odd ball fonts, etc., all contribute to his interest in presenting a "product" that draws our...
Dates: 2006

watching words move / Chermayoff, Ivan ; Geismar, Tom., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42490-44505
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This booklet was first published in 1959 as a handmade typographic notebook of pasted upletters and words in one size typeface. In 1962, it was published as an insert in Typographica magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

[Wedding Invitation] / Karsch, Benjamin; Sharabi, Liat., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28723-30029
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This is an invitation to the wedding of Ruth Sackner's nephew in Israel designed by the artist calligrapher, Denni Ann Gershaw. One sheet on parchment paper is designed with the Hebrew letters Lamed and Vav, the first initials of the bride Liat and the groom Benjamin. These two letters also spell "heart" in Hebrew and it is the first word from a quote from the Book of Psalms which is written in calligraphy around the two letters. This motif is repeated on the second sheet, the actual wedding invitation, as an under printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Westvaco: Inspirations for Printers. No. 191-202 / Bayer H ; Cassandre AM ; Held Jjr ; Lubalin H ; Matter H ; Steinberg S ; Thompson B ; Brodovich A ; Dwiggens WA ; Miro J ; Picasso P., 1953 - 1955

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Identifier: CC-43978-46089
Scope and Contents This book is a compilation of printed material from journals of West Virginia Paper from the years 1953, 1954 and 1955, including cover designs and pages. Bradbury Thompson designed the cover and index of the book. The index describes and lists the contributors in the following categories: artists and photographers, illustrations, subject headings, engraving processes and type faces. The text conveys the importance of print, ink and paper in mid-20th century America. For example, in issue 194 one reads,"To the sculpture, stone is a cosmic force crying for form. The strokes of Michelangelo's chisel unlocked ideas from marble that remain as valid today as four centuries ago. Great works af art provide mankind with imperishable riches because, as expressions of eternal ideas, they retain a constant value for every time. Printing, too, endows the human spirit with a legacy of indestructible ideas. The currency of thought in every age is minted by the printing press. Ink and papers...
Dates: 1953 - 1955

What I Did This Summer / Number Seventeen., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44090-46208
Scope and Contents

Number Seventeen is a design study in NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Wheeling, 1992

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Identifier: CC-07329-7473
Scope and Contents

Theme deals with the rise and fall of the automobile in American culture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Winter 93-94 / Purgatory Pie Press ; Faust D ; Smith EK ; Dervaux I ; Cherches P ; Sackner MA ; Ely T., 1994

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Identifier: CC-04716-4805
Scope and Contents

Marvin Sackner published his famous "Chicken Soup" postcard with PPP in 1987. The Sackner Archive is listed in "Collections." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Wordrobe, 1997

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Identifier: CC-29670-31045
Scope and Contents

This exhibition, curated by Richard Martin, inegrates texts and textiles with stunning fashion designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Words Fail Me / Monachino, Teresa., 2006

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Identifier: CC-47024-49762
Scope and Contents Amazon.com review: WORDS FAIL ME by Teresa Monachino, is a collection of mind-teasing wordplay designed to artfully manipulate the unpredictability of the English language. Award-winning designer and typographer Teresa Monachino has always been baffled by the English language's contradictions and peculiarities. Words do not mean what they say--the middle letters of believe spell lie. Words have the same spelling but differ in both pronunciation and meaning--minute is both miniscule and a measurement of time. Words are paired together redundantly--empty space or honest truth. WORDS FAIL ME is a witty collection of these unruly words, all set in Monachino's immaculate typography, that demonstrate the offbeat nature of the English language. Questions of spelling, pronunciation or the blatantly nonsensical are illustrated through clever visual representations that are created entirely through artfully manipulated typography. This playful and sometimes hilarious text sorts the homonyms...
Dates: 2006

Working with Computer Type 3: Color & Type / Carter, Rob ; Duchamp M., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30283-31692
Scope and Contents

This handbook illustrates and explains how various combinations of type and color affect the clarity, mood, and readability of a design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Worte Worte Worte - words, words, words / Spencer, Herbert ; Goethe J ; Themerson S., 1972

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Identifier: CC-39682-41642
Scope and Contents

Each page is minimally laid out with text from mostly classic writers that consists of aphorisms about words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972