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This book presents biographies of extraordinary women who lived in the Middle ages. The borders on each page are modified from a 15ht centure Book of Hours and the binding resembles a medieval book. The text was hand printed by the typography class at Scripps College. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book presents images and poetry written by thirteen students in the Scripps College typography class dealing with the theme of time of the day. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a collaboration between twelve woman at Scripps College each of whom contributed a chapter that consisted of a travel diary presented either in prose or verse and illustrated with maps and views. The gray chamois book binding is hinged with a snap to enclose the entire book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The aim of this book project was to focus on intuition and music. The participants were asked to choose music that was important to them and to create imagery as they listened to the music, and then to compose words to enhance the imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The introduction indicates that the theme of this book is the idea of constant change, particularly on how to write text which requires typographic change throughout each section of the book. In addition to a section contributed by each of the six participants, there are five pop-up pages spaced throughout the book which reflect a collaborative text on the theme of dream versus reality. Such topics as color and emotion, and insomnia are explored. The photographic images in the book were printed with a laser printer and roughening of the plexiglas covers and slipcase was accomplished with sandpaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book presents images and poetry written by six students in the Scripps College typography class dealing with the theme of nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The aim of this book was to first enunciate the rules of typography and then to break one of these rules in such a manner that the copy is not compromised; i.e., to write or find texts that might actually require the breaking of rules for enhanced meaning. These rules have arisen from such practical reasons as readability, legibility and clarity of ordering, e.g., where paragraphs start. They are listed in three introductory pages. For example, 1) A capital letter begins a sentence; when enlarged, it aligns with the base of a line of type, 2) Word spacing is equal to the width of an i, or one-fourth of an em, etc. Each of the nine contributors then contributed two pages, the first a statement documenting the use of a rule, the second an example of violating the rule in a successful way. This book appears to be a very early example of what currently is called the new typography by such practitioners as David Carson and Neville Brody. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

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This book was written and designed by the Scripps College typography class under the direction of Kitty Maryatt. The project was to make "Chinese" (in this case Western) spirit papers from handmade paper with the students adding elements to the pulp as a way to insert small poignant messages each wrote for this project. Chinese spirit papers were burned in ceremonies to honor ancestors. Several examples of handmade paper were used throughout the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.