Typography
Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:
?, 1980
The humorous poems are nonsense verses after the style of Lewis Carroll. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
21: Celebrating 21 Years, 2010
1000, 1974
ABC - Quotarium, 1970
Abracadabra, 1987
Adagio Press Status Report 1983 , 1983
Alphabet Delight, 2007
This dinner set was produced with the help of George Mill. Each plate and the napkin contain a different design composed of letters from the Serbian alphabet. This is a first edition of a unique limited collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ampersand, 1981
A substantial portion of this book deals with Allen's mother's chemotherapy. This copy is signed and numbered. Another copy held by the Sackner Archive is unsigned and unnumbered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ampersand (unsigned and unnumbered), 1981
A substantial portion of this book deals with Allen's mother's chemotherapy. This copy is unsigned and unnumbered. Another copy held by the Sackner Archive is signed and numbered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ampersands, 1968
Design by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
An Only Kid , 1990
This book dealing with the Passover song, Chad Gadya, was inspired by the work of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Badogoodog, 1983
Before After Birth Death, 1988
Four wooden, pie-shaped panels painted BEFORE AFTER in black are hinged to the circular wood base painted DEATH BIRTH in red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Box of Growth, 1999
Esther K Smith was the art director and Dikko Faust did the letterpress and typography for this bookwork by Happersett. The colophon states that "This series of mathematical drawings is based on growth and decay patterns of twigs and the Fibonacci sequence," The books are entitled, "Twig," "Leaf," "Conch," "Bloeman" and "Sprout." Each page of the books is made with additional calligraphic strokes using a progressive Fibonacci sequence page by page to connote the natural history of growth of the plants mentioned in the titles.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Brazilian Concrete & Visual Poetry from the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive , 1989
Lectures by Claus Cluver and Roland Greene were presented in conjunction with the exhibition. The header on theis poster reads "Advertising = Poetry." The Sackner Archive lent most of the works to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Brazilian Concrete & Visual Poetry from the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive, 1989
Announces the lectures presented by Claus Cluver and Roland Greene in conjunction with the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Butcher's Cross, 1980
Com. Mix., 1972
The title abbreviations Com.Mix. stand for Communication Mixture. This book presents mainly typographic images that Kriwet collected from the American and German landscapes, e.g., signs on store fronts, directional signs, trade marks, TV screens, ideograms and logos. He also utilized multiple illustrations of early texts, maps, illustrations, ancient languages and symbols and related them to analogous contemporary images. For example, Kriwet juxtaposed one of his concrete poems arranged as a mandala with an early German poem also written this way. Another category of illustrations are documentary photographs of Kriwet working on his installation projects. Several photographs show, "Walk Talk," a work held by the Sackner Archive. The images are fully documented with notes of reference for each illustration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Con Text One, 1988
Crossword, 1975
The block letterforms with equal dimensions and spacings have positive/negative structures that give rise to optical effects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
