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This publication provides a description of prior Emigre magazines, publications, and typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This highly illustrated book analyzes and demonstrates the best examples of graphic wit in the past thirty years. The text and examples illustrate that ideas that happen in the mind stay in the mind whether the graphic designs are found in annual reports, technical literature, arts, advertising or product design. A section of the book carrys interviews of designers, Alan Fletcher, Milton Glaser, etc., with regard to how they get their ideas. It is an insight into the creative process using text and image. Included are an index of design groups, types of wit, items that use wit, businesses that use wit, and sources. Most of the work in this book draws from British and American graphic designers. Includes a political poster employing an American flag attributed to an unknown designer in the 1960's on page 44. This poster was designed by George Maciunas, and an example is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reprinted from Der Druckspiegel, a graphic arts magazine, Stuttgart. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In his opening essay, Steven Heller states that Herb Lubalin, a devout typophile, built upon the ideas of earlier twentieth-century type/image makers, such as Kurt Schwitters and Lazar El Lissitzky, and blurred the distinction between type and image. In the late 1940's Bradbury Thomas, a pioneer of American typography, encouraged designers to occasionally release type from its moorings and play with it as if it were a toy. His idea, inspired by the Futurists, Dadaists and Surrealists of the 1920's was that smart typographic puns could enhance a reading by providing an additional level of meaning. Thompson made puns with letterforms that released specific sounds, not unlike the onomatopoeic type poems of the Italian Futurists. A decade later, Herb Lubalin took the idea even further by combining photographs and drawings with expressive letters that underscored or amplified the meaning of a headline. This was serious typeplay!Chapters in this well designed book include Cutting Edge,...

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Linda Bandt Depew designed the typography for Wally Depew's Art Book Box 1 and the annoucement card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes an essay on Arabic computer-generated typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Steven Heller contributed an essay "Transfiguring the Swastika from Benign to Infamous." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Steven Heller contributed an illustrated essay "Paper Bombs - the art of psychological warfare." The issue includes "A History of Writing: Non-Alpahbetical Systems of Writing" by Jeffrey Head that describes the History of Writing mural in the Grosse Pointe, Michigan Public Library created by Herbert Matter in 1962. An A-Z of digital typefoundries is contained in this issue. Francisca Prieto describes her three dimensional book objects in an illustrated essay entitled, "Antimatter." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dennis Ichiyama contributes an essay on the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Helmut Schmid contributes an essay about Kurt Hauert, "the line the form the sound." Mike Daines writes about "Latino vernacular in East Los Angeles." Steven Heller describes Rudolph de Harak in "A Playful Modernist." Mike Daines contributes "Learning from relationships - the typography e-Lexicon." Caroline Archer's essay is " St Bride and the Watford connection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Steven Heller contributes as illustrated essay "Dancing type and Music Videos" dealing with a student project in his class where the aim was to set the song to type. The results were concrete poetic expressions. Caroline Archer's essay "Body Types" charts the fascinating history of the use of the body as a message-carrier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Steven Heller contributes an illustrated essay "Wilhelm Deffke: Modern Mark Maker" that deals with an originator of the modern logograph. Caroline Archer reviews the underground magazine, "Oz." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Steven Heller contributes an illustrated essay "Wilhelm Deffke: Modern Mark Maker" that deals with an originator of the modern logograph. Caroline Archer reviews the underground magazine, "Oz." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes a review of Black Sparrow Press, particularly their book cover designs, a photo essay on Blackpool urban typography, the typographic designer Berthold Wolpe, the comic strip artist Will Eisner, and the cover essay on the St Bride's Printing Library. The latter collects any materials related to the printing trade. Mafaida Spencer 's essay contrasts the work of Piet Zwart" the designer" and Hendrik Werkman "the artist." The books depicted in this essay are 'Netherlands Cable Work' by Zwart and 'The Next Call' by Werkman, both held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.