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This issue includes an illustrated essay by S.J. Ackerman on 19th century election ballots that featured calligraphic text with features of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Steven Heller contributes an interview with Paul Budnitz, the founder of Kidrobot. Ellen Lupton writes bout Living Ornamenti" in the graphic design MFA program at the Maryland Insosttute College of Art. Julia Hoffamnn, a young colleague of Paula Scher, is reviewd as one of the new visual artists of 2006. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes the 2004 European Design Annual. Andrea Deszo designed the cover that consisted of an embroidered heart. She was also a participant in the Pricked exhibition 2007; the exhibition catalogue is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Felipe Taborda contributes an essay, "Parador Found" that describes the work of the Brazilian designer, Heloisa Faria. She created a whole new country, Parador, for the 1987 film, "Moon Over Parador," starring Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, and Sonia Brage. This issue also includes several articles related to graphic design in India . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bruce Wright writes about several designers who left Cranbrook Academy for new jobs in the West. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ellen Lupton reviewed The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946. Steven Heller contributed an interview with Rick Poynor, design writer and editor of Eye Magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Rick Poyner contributes an essay "Cover Me" in which he writes that the current effusion of attention to book jackets confirms their allure as havens of graphic design. Steven Heller interviews social historian Stephen Duncombe and contributes a photo essay "Trash, Transferred." James Gaddy contributes an essay "Shadow Boxer" that describes the relation between James Harvey, a second generation abstract expressionist painter, who designed the Brillo Box and Andy Warhol who appropriated it for his first Pop Art exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Phillips' The Birth of Art (1973), 10 etchings, is depicted on page 85; this work is not held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Part 4 includes an annotated listing of the issues of Matrix, a periodical published by the Whittington Press and held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book describes the craft of letterpress printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is from the Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies series. "From the writing of seventeenth-centuy England to the avant-garde contemporary poetics of writers...McCaffery traces intersections along a broad conceptual plan that he terms he protosemantic, demonstrating how a reader must examine the interstices of each text, its paragrammic possibilities, and Deleuzean folds." McCaffery includes a section on "A Humument" by Tom Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This essay provides a brief history of typography up to the 15th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This essay provides brief history of typography and the printing trade. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the fourth in a series of four monographs concerned with the evolution of reading traditions and book practices over the past 2000 years. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book reprints the poem Mayakovsky's "Pro Eto," written between December 1922 and February 1923, along with English and German translations, documentation, color reproductions of the original photomontages, and critical text. Alexander Lavrentiev writes that "it is a work in which Mayakovsky uses the novel medium of freely associative verse to grapple - sometimes realistically, sometimes availing himself of poetic licence - with love and philistinism, revolution and drinking tea." When Mayakovsky travelled to Berlin for an exhibition of works by graphic artists from Russia, he noticed publications that successfully used photographs and photomontages instead of drawings. He requested Rodchenko, with whom he had previously collaborated in advertising work, to produce photomontages for the book. Pro Eto was published in 1923. The book is considered one of the milestones in innovative literary content and graphic presentation first "because it represents a new kind of love poetry....

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The theme of this book deals with artificial intelligence as it relates to art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.