The first half of this book consists of portraits of famous men and women that are created by the author in specific and appropriate fonts. The second half of the book, People of Substance, the author combines type ornaments and icons to suggest a face with singular attributes like fear, passive, nice and money. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lists Ian Hamilton Finlay's corrected galley proofs of "The Sea-Bed and Other Stories" for sale at $2,500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The authors comment that "In four short but inspired years, Ray Gun has captured the imagination of American alternative culture as a forum for debate and as an arbiter of credibility on music, graphic design, culture, and style." This book presents new design on the cutting edge of typography, writing, photography, illustration, fashion. The compact disc is formatted for the MacIntosh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Born in 1957 and educated at the London College of Printing, the early influences on Brody were Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Punk Rock, Moly Nagy, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and Malevich. Brody has designed record covers, magazines book covers, logos most recently digitized images and alphabets. Brody was a founder of Fuse, a digital disc accompanied by posters of experimental typography. Jon Wozencroft provided the text and captions for these books which are reprinted from the 1988 & 1994 editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.