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Marguerita Mergentime : American textiles, modern ideas

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Madelyn Shaw -- Marguerita Mergentime: inventing tablecloths / Virginia Bayer -- Radio City Lilies: 1932 -- Garden flowers: 1935-1940 -- Shapes and colors: 1934, 1935 -- Folded -- Code signals: 1936 -- Tablecloths lie on a table / Donna Ghelerter -- Modern history: 1936 -- Folk flourishes: 1937, 1939 -- The typographic cloth / Linda Florio -- Table talk: 1936,1939, 1940-- Americana: 1939 -- Exhibitions.…”

A history of graphic design by Meggs, Philip B.

Table of Contents: “…Renaissance Graphic Design. 8. An Epoch of Typographic Genius -- 3. The Industrial Revolution: The impact of industrial technology upon visual communications. 9. …”
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The way beyond 'art' : the work of Herbert Bayer by Dorner, Alexander, 1893-1957

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / by John Dewey -- I : Preface -- II : Tensions of contemporary art -- The artist as servant of absolute form -- The artist as spontaneous creator -- The designer as energy in the self-changing life process -- III : The genesis of contemporary art -- The evolution of magic reality -- The three-dimensional world and its inner change -- The dissolution of three-dimensional reality : the split-world of enlightenment and romanticism -- The supraspatial reality of pure energies -- IV : The work of Herbert Bayer -- Herbert Bayer as modern realist -- Herbert Bayer as commercial designer -- Herbert Bayer as typographer and designer of exhibitions -- V : Conclusion.…”

Political cartoons and caricatures from the collection of Michael Alexander Kahn

Contempo : this American tempo by Vassos, John, 1898-1985

Paul Rand, a designer's art by Rand, Paul, 1914-1996

Table of Contents: “…Art for art's sake -- The beautiful and the useful -- The designer's problem -- The symbol in visual communication -- Versatility of the symbol -- The trademark -- Seeing stripes -- Imagination and the image -- Integrating form and content -- Ideas about ideas -- The meaning of repetition -- The role of humor -- The rebus and the visual pun -- Collage and montage -- Yesterday and today -- Typographic form and expression -- Legibility and modernity -- The good old "neue typografie" -- Design and the play instinct -- Black black black -- The art of the package: tomorrow and yesterday -- The third dimension -- The complexity of color -- Word pictures -- The lesson of Cézanne -- Politics of design -- Integrity and invention.…”
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Salamina by Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971

A Century of Japanese photography

Exhibit labels : an interpretive approach by Serrell, Beverly, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…-- Learning styles -- Levels of information and modalities -- Writing visitor-friendly labels -- Selecting the right reading level -- Bilingual labels -- Labels that ask questions -- 3: Tasks -- Getting started (and getting it done) -- The number of words -- Evaluation during development -- Making words and images work together -- Labels for interactive exhibits -- Electronic labels and hypermedia -- Typographic design -- Production and fabrication -- Evaluation after opening -- 4: Summary -- Ten deadly sins and 14 helpful research findings.…”
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Print and culture in the Renaissance : essays on the advent of printing in Europe

Table of Contents: “…Moxey -- Prints and the definitive image / Charles Talbot -- The Reformation in England and the typographical revolution / John N. Wall, Jr. -- Early music printing / Stanley Boorman -- Making books from leaves / Richard C. …”

The Modern reader's Japanese-English character dictionary.

The modern reader's Japanese-English character dictionary = 最新漢英辞典 /

by Nelson, Andrew Nathaniel, 1893-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Typographical explanations -- JAPANESE-ENGLISH CHARACTER DICTIONARY.…”

Alessandro Filipepi, commonly called Sandro Botticelli, painter of Florence, by Horne, Herbert P. (Herbert Percy), 1864-1916

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Graphic design : now in production

Table of Contents: “…The designer as producer / Ellen Lupton -- Fuck content / Michael Rock -- Research and destroy : design as investigation / Daniel van der Velden -- Unraveling / Lorraine Wild -- Tool (or, postproduction for the graphic designer) / Andrew Blauvelt -- Design entrepreneur 3.0 / Steven Heller -- Practice from everyday life : defining graphic design's expansive scope by its quotidian activities / James Goggin -- Reading and writing / Ellen Lupton -- Magazine culture / Jeremy Leslie -- The persistence of posters / Andrew Blauvelt -- The making of typographic man / Ellen Lupton -- Experimental typography. …”

Art of the printed book, 1455-1955 : masterpieces of typography through five centuries from the collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

Printing types : their history, forms and use ; A study in survivals. by Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941

Table of Contents: “…The invention of printing : the cutting and casting of types in relation to their design -- A font of type and its case : the typographical point : point-set and lining types -- The Latin alphabet and its development up to the invention of printing -- Types of the fifteenth century in Germany -- Types of the fifteenth century in Italy -- Types of the fifteenth century in France -- Types of the fifteenth century in the Netherlands : Holland and Belgium -- Types of the fifteenth century in Spain -- Types of the fifteenth century in England -- The Aldine italic -- A word on type specimens -- German types, 1500-1800 -- Italian types, 1500-1800 -- French types, 1500-1800.…”

Freedom : a fable : a curious interpretation of the wit of a negress in troubled times : with illustrations by Walker, Kara Elizabeth

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From Gutenberg to opentype : an illustrated history of type from the earliest letterforms to the latest digital fonts by Dodd, Robin

Table of Contents: “…The postmodern era : The New Wave: postmodern typographic design ; Adobe and the personal computer ; Hermann Zapf: script fonts and Zapfino ; Zapfino: better with Open Type® -- Digital typefoundries : The relative newcomers: larger foundries ; More relative newcomers: smaller foundries -- A brief introduction to type recognition and classification -- Glossary.…”

The Black worker to 1869

Table of Contents: “…Race discrimination in the Cooper's Union, 1868 ; Lewis H. Douglas and the Typographical Union ; Exclusion of blacks from other unions -- Part X: The demand for equality. …”
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9. glasauktion in Zwiesel.

Important Continental furniture and tapestries.