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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Abacus: Bookscape. No.33/Apr / Johanna Drucker., 1988

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Identifier: CC-24418-24870
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Ganick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Books: 1970 to 1994 / Drucker, Johanna ; Davids B ; Freeman B., 1994

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Identifier: CC-16378-16728
Scope and Contents

Drucker annotates each book she has created and printed under her early imprint Chased Press and the current Druckwerk. The loose sheet provides the current prices of her works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Charles Nypels Award 1998 / Emigre ; Licko Z ; VanderLans R ; Poynor R ; Wild L ; Drucker J., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30499-31927
Scope and Contents

This catalogue depicts the typefaces designed with the Apple computers by Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans and the origins of Emigre Magazine they founded in 1984. For these achievements, Licko and Vanderlans received the fifth Charles Nypels Award, given every two years to an individual or institution that has made innovations in the area of typography in the briadest sense. This catalogue published to commemorate the award was edited by Gor Rosbeek and Jean Rosbeek. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture / Lupton, Ellen, editor ; Bayer H ; Brody N ; Chwast S ; Drucker J ; Fella E ; Friedman M ; Greiman A ; Heartfeld J ; Lissitzky E ; Lubalin H ; Makela S ; Miller J ; Rand P ; Scher P ; Tschichold J ; McCoy K ; Koch R ; Glaser M ; Friedman D ; Longhauser W ; Kunz W ; Greiman A ; Licher B ; Eckersley R., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27802-28935
Scope and Contents This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. The exhibition was organized around questions of form, function, and medium and focused on designers beginning their careers in the 1980s and 1990s. The first section dealt with messages on the street, graphic design competing for public attention. Next, typography was analyzed, the art of creating letters for reproduction and organizing them in space. The third section of the book considered the chief social function of design: to visualize the identity of institutions and audiences. The last chapter looked at publishing including books, magazines and computers. Selected interviews with noted graphic designers appear in the final section of the book. Pages of the following items, which are held by the Sackner Archive, "Through Light and the Alphabet" by Johanna Drucker, the 1989 Time Warner Annual Report, and the Independent Project Press are reproduced. In...
Dates: 1996

Through Light and the Alphabet / Drucker, Johanna., 1986

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Identifier: CC-15712-16041
Scope and Contents

The typography becomes more complex and varied as the story unfolds and is reminiscent of the early typography of Iliazd. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986