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Graphic design

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 489 Collections and/or Records:

We Monitor Your Phone Line 24 Hours A Day... / Anonymous., 1989

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Identifier: CC-24772-25225
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

[When Beta Cells become Too Worn out] / Anonymous., 2006

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Identifier: CC-45062-47238
Scope and Contents

In this advertisement, the torso of the characters is formed from the Greek letter "beta" to denote beta cells, the insulin secreting cells of the insulin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Which One is Different? / Rothman, Joel ; Chwast, Seymour ; Kotowitz, Victor., 1975

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Identifier: CC-48211-69235
Scope and Contents

This book was designed by Seymour Chwast and Victor Kotowitz. The Sackner Archive holds photostats of collages by Kotowitz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Who Nose Marketing? / Anonymous., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32874-34489
Scope and Contents

The cover and pages are cut in the middle to accommodate a pencil sharpener in the shape of a nose that is attached to the last page and presents itself on each page. Wordplay on the nose (knows) is used as a promotion to introduce the principals of the marketing firm that commisioned this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Woman's World: a novel / Rawle, Graham., 2005

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Identifier: CC-62537-47692
Scope and Contents This book is a work of fiction in which all the texts and illustrations are clipped from women's magazines from the 1960's. It resembles the cut-up stories made by William Burroughs except that the flow is deliberate rather than random. Graham Rawle describes the making of the book in an afterward. "I started writing this book in the usual way. When I had completed a rough draft, I then searched through hundreds of women's magazines, cutting out anything that seemed relevant to the scenes I'd written - sentences and phrases that, when joined together, could be rearranged to approximate what I wanted to say. These cuttings were then filed and from them I began to reassemble my story. Little by little, my original words were discarded and replaced by those I'd bound. Once the transition was complete, I could start pasting up the pages as artwork. The method was primitive: scissors and glue. Apart from a little tweaking here and there to enlarge very small type to a readable size,...
Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

World Design Conference Tokyo 1960 / Ernst, Jupp, editor ; Roh F ; Moholy-Nagy L ; Ray M ; Albers J., 1962

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Identifier: CC-60752-10003605
Scope and Contents

Most of the illustrations in this book were done by students. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

World Geo-Graphic Atlas / Bayer, Herbert, editor., 1953

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Identifier: CC-23787-24235
Scope and Contents

According to the critic, Arthur Cohen, this Atlas is a masterpiece of cartographic clarity. It achieves a brillant integration of diffuse and complex information through a precisely conceived iconography unparalled in a work of such scope. None of the copies were for sale. The book is inscribed to Jose Luis Sert, born July 1, 1902, Barcelona - died March 15, 1983, Barcelona. Spanish-born American architect noted for his work in city planning and urban development. After graduation from the School of Architecture, Barcelona (1929), Sert worked with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Paris. From 1929 to 1937 he had his own architectural office in Barcelona; works from the period include apartment houses in Barcelona, "¦ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1953
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Your Name Here / Mohawk Paper Mills., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32007-33538
Scope and Contents

This catalogue demonstrates typographic and graphic designs on various weights and shades of Mohawk Superfine papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

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