Typography

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

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Alphabetize / Faust, Dikko ; Smith, Esther K.., 1992

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Identifier: CC-11343-11559

Scope and Contents

This is an address book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

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

Always Endeavor / Nannucci, Maurizio., 1997

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Identifier: CC-40334-42305

Scope and Contents

The sentence on the recto by Nannucci states, " Always endeavor to find some interesting variation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

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

America / Bigus, Richard., 1974

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Identifier: CC-21250-21660

Dates: 1974

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

American Letterpress in London / Purgatory Pie Press ; Faust D ; Smith EK ; Sackner MA ; Bartalos M ; Buczak B ; VanHorn E ; Lederman SB ; Haynes R ; Cherches P ; Holman B., 1991

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Identifier: CC-04200-4279

Scope and Contents

Includes listing of all artist/poets on Postcard seies including Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

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

American Typeplay / Heller, Steven ; Anderson, Gail ; Allen T ; Byrne D ; Crumb R ; Kruger B ; Maisner B ; Makela S ; Scher P ; Drescher H ; Lubalin H ; Carson D ; VanderLans R ; Scher P., 1994

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Identifier: CC-27885-29024

Scope and Contents In his opening essay, Steven Heller states that Herb Lubalin, a devout typophile, built upon the ideas of earlier twentieth-century type/image makers, such as Kurt Schwitters and Lazar El Lissitzky, and blurred the distinction between type and image. In the late 1940's Bradbury Thomas, a pioneer of American typography, encouraged designers to occasionally release type from its moorings and play with it as if it were a toy. His idea, inspired by the Futurists, Dadaists and Surrealists of the 1920's was that smart typographic puns could enhance a reading by providing an additional level of meaning. Thompson made puns with letterforms that released specific sounds, not unlike the onomatopoeic type poems of the Italian Futurists. A decade later, Herb Lubalin took the idea even further by combining photographs and drawings with expressive letters that underscored or amplified the meaning of a headline. This was serious typeplay!Chapters in this well designed book include Cutting Edge,...

Dates: 1994

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

America's Mission: The Art Show / Stetser, Carol., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34538-36237

Scope and Contents

The largest book consists of dictionary pages over which is printed, "Anatole France suggested that the dictionary is the universe in alphabetical order. But life does not come in alphabetical order." The smaller three books consist of photocopied colored prints made from found printed text and images collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

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

Ampersand, 1981

Item — Box Ahe-Alt: [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