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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 950 Collections and/or Records:

Books: 1970 to 1994 / Drucker, Johanna ; Davids B ; Freeman B., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-16378-16728
Scope and Contents

Drucker annotates each book she has created and printed under her early imprint Chased Press and the current Druckwerk. The loose sheet provides the current prices of her works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

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

Brain Darts / Turkel, Bruce., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33136-34762
Scope and Contents

This book illustrates the work of the Miami design and advertising firm. Bruce Turkel is the executive creative director of Turkel Schwartz & Partners. -- 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

Breakfast Special / Tilson, Jake., 1989

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Identifier: CC-01081-1109
Scope and Contents

Pamphlet is enclosed which explains theme of each book. No.1 El Dottore di Terracotta, No.2 La Carta Propre, No.3 Miasto Alfabet, No.4 El. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Breathing through the Body of A / Schorn, Brian., 1994

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Identifier: CC-02911-2955
Scope and Contents

This work is reproduced in Emigre No.32 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk / Scher, Paula, designer., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34502-36200
Scope and Contents

Paula Scher and Lisa Mazur of Pentagram designed this program for the award winning Broadway production. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Bruce Rogers: A Life in Letters 1870-1957 / Blumenthal, Joseph., 1989

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Identifier: CC-23171-23609
Scope and Contents

This is the biography of Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), a famous American book designer and printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Bucher/Livres / Schwarz, Robert., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02227-2267
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive is listed as a organization collecting the works of Robert Schwarz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

By Air/Daily Swift / Unger, Gerard., 1988

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Identifier: CC-60330-63782
Scope and Contents This work is based upon the Swiftâ„¢ font family was designed by Gerard Unger and released by the German firm Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell GmbH in 1987 after a three year design period. The lines of the characters follow the sweeping motions of the similarly named bird; the typeface is presently available in twenty-four variants. Interenet: Gerard Unger Born at Arnhem, Netherlands, 1942. Studied graphic design, typography and type design from 1963"“'67 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. He teaches as visiting professor at the University of Reading, UK. Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, and taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy till January 2007. From 2006 till 2012 he was Professor of Typography at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Free lance designer from 1972. He has designed stamps, coins, magazines, newspapers, books, logo's, corporate identities, annual reports and other objects, and many typefaces. In 1984, he received the H.N.Werkman-Prize, in '88 the...
Dates: 1988

Caffeconcerto (reprint) / Cangiullo, Francesco., 1979

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Identifier: CC-16706-17061
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Luciano Caruso. A copy of the original edition is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979