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xx, 376 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Books, 1993.
American metal typefaces of the Twentieth Century / by Mac McGrew.
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xx, 376 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
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New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Books, 1993.
artefacts
Saint Luke's tower.
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1 model : lead ; 15 x 13 x 6 cm
[between 1920 and 1940?] (Chicago, Ill. : A.C. Rehberger)
artefacts
[between 1920 and 1940?] (Chicago, Ill. : A.C. Rehberger)
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72 unnumbered pages : illustrations, plates (some color) facsimiles ; 30 cm
London ; Paris and ; New York : Studio', 1904.
The royal academy from Reynolds to Millais / ed. by Charles Holme.
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72 unnumbered pages : illustrations, plates (some color) facsimiles ; 30 cm
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London ; Paris and ; New York : Studio', 1904.
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249 pages ; 23 cm.
[Paris] : Fayard, [1989], ©1989
Considérations morales sur la destination des ouvrages de l'art ; suivi de, Lettres sur l'enlèvement des ouvrages de l'art antique à Athènes et à Rome / Quatremère de Quincy ; [texte revu par Jean Louis Déotte].
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249 pages ; 23 cm.
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[Paris] : Fayard, [1989], ©1989
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Three interconnected palimpsest essays recount (1) the backstory of a “meta” font recently updated by Dexter Sinister and used to typeset the Contemporary Condition book series, (2) a broad history of the rationalization of letterforms that considers the same typeface from “a higher point of disinterest,” and (3) a pending proposal for a sundial designed to operate in(...)
Dexer Sinister: Notes on the type, time, letters & spirits
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Three interconnected palimpsest essays recount (1) the backstory of a “meta” font recently updated by Dexter Sinister and used to typeset the Contemporary Condition book series, (2) a broad history of the rationalization of letterforms that considers the same typeface from “a higher point of disinterest,” and (3) a pending proposal for a sundial designed to operate in parallel physical and digital realms. Along the way they contemplate the ambiguous nature of our shared idea of *time* itself.
Design Theory
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Lucky Dip.
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1 online resource.
[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2021.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Lateral Addition, 2021.
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40 pages : 1 folded plan ; 22 cm
Paris : Didot frères, 1846.
Propositions pour l'achèvement des Tuileries et du Louvre / par A.F. Mauduit.
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40 pages : 1 folded plan ; 22 cm
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Paris : Didot frères, 1846.
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An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn. On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was the architect Louis Kahn (1901–1974). This chance encounter served as preamble to a(...)
Our days are like full years: letters from Louis Kahn
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An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn. On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was the architect Louis Kahn (1901–1974). This chance encounter served as preamble to a fifteen-year romance, with Pattison becoming the architect’s closest confidante, his intellectual partner, and the mother of his only son.Married and twenty-seven years her senior, Kahn sent her scores of letters—many from far-flung places—until his untimely death. This book weaves together Pattison’s own story with letters, postcards, telegrams, drawings, and photographs that reveal Kahn’s inner life and his architectural thought process, including new insight into some of his greatest works, both built and unbuilt.
Architecture Monographs
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294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Chicago, IL. : Haymarket Books, 2016., ©2005
Recovering the sacred : the power of naming and claiming / Winona LaDuke.
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294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Chicago, IL. : Haymarket Books, 2016., ©2005
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This classic book, first published in 1983 and updated in 1990, helps designers to recognize and identify typefaces seen and used on an everyday basis, and also provides assistance with the process of typeface selection. It highlights the essential characteristics of over 700 typeface specimens, all fully cross-referenced to a comprehensive index.Typefaces are grouped(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
December 2004, London
Rookledge's classic international type finder : the essential handbook of typeface recognition and selection
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This classic book, first published in 1983 and updated in 1990, helps designers to recognize and identify typefaces seen and used on an everyday basis, and also provides assistance with the process of typeface selection. It highlights the essential characteristics of over 700 typeface specimens, all fully cross-referenced to a comprehensive index.Typefaces are grouped according to specific design features and the typefinding process is by visual inspection and elimination. 'Earmark' or letter feature tables offer an alternative but companion method of identifying text typefaces, illustrating the more distinctive and unusual identifying features of letters. Each category of typeface is prefaced with an introduction by Phil Baines examining its historical background. The book also contains an eight-page section of fifty brief biographies of leading type designers.
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December 2004, London
Graphic Design and Typography