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Typography

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 936 Collections and/or Records:

True to Type / Crombie, John., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-46389-49114
Scope and Contents

This is a fictional biography of a man from his birth to age 80 years when he is near death. Several typefaces are employed to simulate the aging process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[Tune in] / Sych, Paul., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27611-28688
Scope and Contents

The poster depicts a radio, a woman's face, and a stylized eye pupil with a cartoon bubble reading, "tune in." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Typecasting / Murphy, Jay; Corris M., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-06223-6337
Scope and Contents

Review of Michael Corris' books, "As if the Pillars of Society" and "Typographical Samples, Pictures & Polemics." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

typewriter art / Sonnenfeld, Mark., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-49512-70558
Scope and Contents

The typewitten fonts are have been enlarged in a random style on each page along with a poetic phrase in small type. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Typografische Monatsblatter. No.12/Dec / Lissitzky E., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-01133-1163
Scope and Contents

Jan Tschichold has written a section of the journal devoted to the work of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

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

TypoGraphic. No.50., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30600-32038
Scope and Contents

This issue of Typographic takes the work of type-designers and explores the differing reasons and purposes for their use of the computer as an appropriate tool. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

TypoGraphic: Other Values - Plus Ca. No.52., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-37938-39818
Scope and Contents

This issue is concerned with the problems faced by the teachers of typography in higher education dealing with governments that have imposed mass accessibiity upon a system whose internal values remain elitist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

TypoGraphic: The real world. No.55., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-34427-36124
Scope and Contents

This issue is concerned with the real world of graphic design and the education of design students who will "shape the real world into a place more to their liking." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Typographie kann unter Umstanden Kunst sein / Volker Rattemeyer, curator ; Dietrich Helms, curator ; Helmes D ; Riha K ; Heissenbuttel H ; Erloff M ; Vordemberge-Gildewart F ; Schwitters K ; Zwart P ; Elffers D ; Heartfield J ; Kassak L ; Michel R ; Sutnar L ; Teige K., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01164-1194
Scope and Contents

The three volumes comprising this exhibition include: 1) Frederich Vordemberge-Gildewart Typographie und Werbegestaltung, 2) Ring, neue werbegestalter Amsterdamer Ausstellung von 1931, and 3) Kurt Scwitters Typographie und Werbegestalting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Typography Now Two / Poynor, Rick, editor ; Fella E ; VanderLans R ; Greiman A ; Carson D ; Libeskind D ; Baines P ; Brody N ; Schorn B ; Crisp DG., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27534-28601
Scope and Contents

Profusely illustrated book that reproduces experimental typographic spreads from magazines, exhibition catalogues, posters, and ads. It also has a section on student work. Magazines represented among others include Ray Gun, Emigre, Bulldozer, Form + Zweck, The Downlow, Zed, Coil, Bikini, Wired, and Now Time. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996