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Graphic design

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

2398 gr. A Book about Food, 2003

 Item — Box 184: [Barcode: 31858072459542]
Identifier: CC-40697-42671
Scope and Contents

Fabrica is a communication research and development center founded in 1994 by the Benetton Group. At Fabrica young artists and experimenters under 25 gather and develop their creativity and concrete communication pojects in fields that range from cinema, graphic design, industrial design, music, illustration, photography, new media and editorial production...2398 gr. is the title of a book interpreting food - a fundamental cultural and anthropological stimulus. Exploring our relationship with food, the techniques of contemporary art; food as fetish, ritual, dependence, festivity, emotion, pleasure, obsession, chemistry, relation or fear. Or food as landscape, design, a metaphor, a sign, dance and architecture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Brew Moon, 1994

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-24001-24451
Scope and Contents

This is a napkin designed and lettered by Jan Baker as an advertisement for a beer brewery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Captured Glance: The Avante-Garde and Advertising in the Twenties / Serger, 1987

 Item — Box 623: [Barcode: 31858072461100]
Identifier: CC-16751-17106
Scope and Contents

The essay by Monica J. Strauss traces the successful collaboration between fine and commercial artists in Germany between the wars and questions the "rigid distinctions between art and design" in contemporary times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Genesis Twenty-two / The Binding of Isaac, 2006

 Item — Box 70: [Barcode: 31858070812213]
Identifier: CC-47610-68622
Scope and Contents

According to David Moss' explanation in the afterward of the accompanying book, the print was originally designed as a mural for the Akiba Academy in Dallas. The piece was a 45-foot canvas mural in three sections running down the entire central hall. Originally created as a collage using cut, colored papers it was scanned and refined to create the mural as well as the fine art giclee print. the work was inspired by a visit to the Arthur and Metta Jaffe Libraray at Florida Atlantic University. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Jottings , 2003

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-41456-43441
Scope and Contents

These are samples of Jan Baker designed textiles created in collaboration with Lori Weitzner for an award winning upholstery fabric collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Porte - Voix, 1979

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-28504-29783
Scope and Contents

An unusal typeface ws used in this poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Spirit World, 1992

 Item — Box 205: [Barcode: 31858072460110]
Identifier: CC-29041-30379
Scope and Contents

The texts intermingle the early democratic principles of America' founding fathers with slavery issues. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[The Getty Center Fellowship] , 1992

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-23999-24449
Scope and Contents

This poster has a more experimental design than usually distributed by the Getty. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992