Scope and Contents Consists of a collection of essays about graphic design which were written between 1985 and 1995. The topics among others include decontructivism, written numbers, and history of styles, punctuations, ornaments, and alterations to typefaces. In a chapter entitled, Language of Dreams, the authors identify graphic differences among pictograph, ideograph, rebus, syllabary and alphabet. If stylized standing figures of a man and woman are depicted adjacent to each other, the pictograph symbolizes "man and woman" whereas the ideograph "toilets." Stylized images of a knife and fork placed next to each other symbolize "knife and fork" as a pictograph and "restaurant " as ideograph. A stylized standing figure of a man might signify "john" or a stylized front-view of an automobile "car" as a rebus. The alphabet letter 'A' might be depicted as a Martini glass, 'B' as a boat, etc. The final section of this book deals with a history of graphic design in America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin...

Scope and Contents This exhibition catalogue of selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection is organized into four sections: Design and the Avant-Garde; Design and Commerce; Design and Social Change; Design and Politics. In addition to Yale, the catalogue was published by Willliams College of Art and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Berman's collection is the premier graphic design collection of the 20th century works in the United States. In her introductory essay, "Writing a History," Maud Lavin points out that Berman collected with aggression and dedication for twenty years starting in 1975, shaping the history of graphic design during the period when the scholarly field of design history was emerging. Berman viewed graphic design works as objects of art, politics and cultural history. His collection "covers innovative design used in the politics of everyday life, in persuading consumers, in propagating for political causes, in redesigning ever-industrializing cultures, in papering...

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The authors write that stationery for the avant garde 20th century movements served as typographic manifestos and reflected the artists' and designers' ambitions to merge art into life and to create visual identities for themselves. This book contains an international avant-garde net-work time line that diagrams the interaction of the major movements and artists. The reproductions of the poster, "Kleine Dada Soiree" by Schwitters and Van Doesburg and the brochure, "Reklame Mechano" by Henryk Berlewi in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Barbara Glauber. The topics covered in this experimentally designed catalogue, with varied typefaces and layout approaches, include "The Anonymous Profession" by Steven Heller, "Roadside Culture" by George LaRou and "Anarch-Graffiti in New York City's Lower East Side" by John Dale and Margaret Morton. The themes mainly deal with the influence of outdoor sign designs, logographs, and advertisements of graphic designs as a whole. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This booklet was given to visitors at the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition was organized around questions of form, function, and medium and focused on designers beginning their careers in the 1980s and 1990s. The first section dealt with messages on the street, graphic design competing for public attention. Next, typography was analyzed, the art of creating letters for reproduction and organizing them in space. The third section of the book considered the chief social function of design: to visualize the identity of institutions and audiences. The last chapter looked at publishing including books, magazines and computers. Selected interviews with noted graphic designers appear in the final section of the book. Pages of the following items, which are held by the Sackner Archive, "Through Light and the Alphabet" by Johanna Drucker, the 1989 Time Warner Annual Report, and the Independent Project Press are reproduced. In...