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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 87 Collections and/or Records:

Sculptures by Alice Hutchins , 1972

 Item — Folder 64: [Barcode: 31858072537982]
Identifier: CC-18767-19141
Scope and Contents

Designated as appearing in the periodical, Ou 40/41. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

The Collected Ephemera of the Adagio Press, 1972

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-21581-21992
Scope and Contents

Each pamphlet consists of a folded sheet of fine paper thereby amounting to four pages. The subjects include ornaments, alphabets of type specimens and quotes from writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[The Getty Center Fellowship] , 1992

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-23999-24449
Scope and Contents

This poster has a more experimental design than usually distributed by the Getty. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., on purple], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19933-20321
Scope and Contents

The background color of this print is purple; the text is the same on all the prints with tis title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Theo 1919 / Caruso, Barbara., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-19879-20267
Scope and Contents

The letters of this drawing are based on an alphabet by Theo Van Doesburg. The letters were formed by extensive cross-hatching with a very fine rapidiograph pen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Typographia 1 , 1976

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-21973-22385
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of typographical exercises interspersed with notes on printing, typography and the private press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Typographia 2 , 1979

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-21964-22376
Scope and Contents

The book deals with definitions of the private press and includes 24 quotes from printers and critics in chronologic order by year beginning with 1897 and ending with 1979. The typographic styles for these quotes are varied in the tradition of fine press work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Ursachen Rauschen, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08199-8360
Scope and Contents

Karl Riha wrote the introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-62402-47535
Scope and Contents

Flexitype heads [allowing the manipulation and distortion of type] were used in this book in co-operation with Cooper and Beatty. To the knowledge of the Editors of this book, it was the first time that Flexitype has been used in any quantity outside the field of advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967