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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:

?, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-14040-14345
Scope and Contents

The humorous poems are nonsense verses after the style of Lewis Carroll. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

21: Celebrating 21 Years, 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-52579-73712
Scope and Contents The book celebrates 21 years of the Archetype Press and relates to the legal drinking age of 21. Each page is a typographic recipe for an alcholic beverage. It was produced by undergraduate students at the Art Center College Archetype Press under the direction of Gloria Kondrup. The Sackner copy of the book is the hard cover limited edition version. The other copies are soft cover books. Interview with Gloria Kondrup, Director of Archetype Press in The Dotted Line, official blog of Art Center College of Design: Interviewer: What do you see in the future for Archetype Press? Kondrup: "Unfortunately, the foundry metal type will eventually wear out, become lost or destroyed. But as education continues the digital march forward, the process of letterpress printing will hopefully remain a valuable technology in the study of typography and language, and conventional printing process will continue through the integration photopolymer plates that are digitally created. I see us moving...
Dates: 2010

Alphabet Delight, 2007

 Item — Box 198: [Barcode: 31858072459682]
Identifier: CC-46563-49292
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2007

Ampersand, 1981

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-43953-46064
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1981

Ampersand (unsigned and unnumbered), 1981

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-24523-24976
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1981

Ampersands, 1968

 Item — Folder 13: [Barcode: 31858069877920]
Identifier: CC-22038-22454
Scope and Contents

Design by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

An Only Kid , 1990

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-25606-26064
Scope and Contents

This book dealing with the Passover song, Chad Gadya, was inspired by the work of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Before After Birth Death, 1988

 Item — Box 58: [Barcode: 31858072538576]
Identifier: CC-10330-10533
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1988

Box of Growth, 1999

 Item — Box 150: [Barcode: 31858072458031]
Identifier: CC-34487-36184
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1999

Brazilian Concrete & Visual Poetry from the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive , 1989

 Item — Folder 63: [Barcode: 31858072537974]
Identifier: CC-22449-22874
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1989

Brazilian Concrete & Visual Poetry from the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive, 1989

 Item — Folder 63: [Barcode: 31858072537974]
Identifier: CC-22487-22912
Scope and Contents

Announces the lectures presented by Claus Cluver and Roland Greene in conjunction with the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Com. Mix., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-27301-27865
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1972

Crossword, 1975

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-25344-25800
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1975