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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 947 Collections and/or Records:

Art by Mail Subscription No.2; Catching A River: Delta / Alisa Golden., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10394-10597
Scope and Contents

A love story of two fish-like creatures swimming against the current. The design features water-like marbled paper and a small red cellophane fish on a string. The pages of the central small book turn in a wave-like fashion. This book is enclosed in the slipcase with Dreamfish -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Art by Mail Subscription No.2; Catching A River: Delta / Alisa Golden., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10394-10597
Scope and Contents

A love story of two fish-like creatures swimming against the current. The design features water-like marbled paper and a small red cellophane fish on a string. The pages of the central small book turn in a wave-like fashion. This book is enclosed in the slipcase with Dreamfish -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Art by Mail Subscription No.2; Catching A River: The Dreamfish / Alisa Golden., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10395-10598
Scope and Contents

A fish story told within the shape of a fish. This book is enclosed in the slipcase with Delta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Art by Mail Subscription No.2; Catching A River: The Dreamfish / Alisa Golden., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10395-10598
Scope and Contents

A fish story told within the shape of a fish. This book is enclosed in the slipcase with Delta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Art & Metiers du Livre. No.185/May-Jun / Smith P ; Phillips T ; Frank P ; Licher B ; Cavellini GA ; Banana A., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-26697-27167
Scope and Contents

Includes a descriptive article on bookbinding by Philip Smith that contains an illustration of his binding for "The Heart of a Humument" by Tom Phillips. This issue also includes a review of the Stamp Art exhibition, "Timbres d'Artistes," held at Musees de la Poste. The exhibition catalog of this show is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Art Techniques, 1944

 Item
Identifier: CC-04383-4465
Scope and Contents

This book documents Porter's work in photography, photograms, typography, book design, print, collage, and sculpture. Most of the images are photographs of abstract images with wide application of the "Rayogram" technique. One page consists of a "bio-bibliographic" map depicting the career of James Joyce. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1944

Artists Books: Letters And Jazz. No.13 / George Brecht ; Stefan Wewerka., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-24916-25369
Scope and Contents

Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

As in Queen (The Abecedarirum of a Typophiliac) / Black, Leda., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28819-30137
Scope and Contents

By spreading open the cover one can read the following: "lay open this book - and you will see - typophilia - undisguised - a quaint affliction - illustrated - by mesostich - paeans to - the queen of letters." Each double opened page is printed with a different font of the letter Q and with a large stylized reproduction of part of the font. A mesostic poem on each page contains the name of the 27 typefaces, in alphabetical order, used for the letter Q, e.g., anna, bookman, castellar, didot, eva, felix, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Aug Um Ohr / Reichert, Josua., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-03401-3457
Scope and Contents

This book is based upon a poem by Goethe of the same title. Three prints are collaged onto three of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Aux Trente-Deux Vents / Albert-Birot, Pierre ; Schoffer N ; Chopin H., 1970

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Identifier: CC-27127-27602
Scope and Contents

This deluxe edition includes a constructivist, metallic sculpture by Nicolas Schoffer and an afterward by Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

AVIOTAB Wild TA30: Digitalzeichentisch / Anonymous., 1987

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Identifier: CC-32228-33784
Scope and Contents

This is the instruction manual for using the digital drawing table lettering device that is used by Olbrich and other artists for making letters and numbers which can then be collaged onto prints, cards and envelopes, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Baseline. No.26., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31024-32485
Scope and Contents

This issue includes an essay on Arabic computer-generated typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Baseline. No.31 / Heller S., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34660-36361
Scope and Contents

Steven Heller contributed an essay "Transfiguring the Swastika from Benign to Infamous." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000