Design

Hyde Park Houses - An Informal History, 1856-1910

Location

Hyde Park
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Book, Block
Date: 
1978
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History of Hyde Park neighborhood through documentation of notable residences.
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English
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0226060004
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Ars Combinatoria

Location

Chicago
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Zine, Ars Combinatoria
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Abstract found on first page of zine: "Ars Combinatoria is an exploration of the graphic possibilities of a single piece of wood type - a thirty pica Clarendon R- and restricted set of operations- positive and negative auto-pressure printing with only one inked impression."
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English
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Koshka Zine

Location

2261 North Kedzie Boulevard #2
60647 Chicago
United States
US
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Zine, Koshka Zine
Date: 
2011
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Issue: 
1
Abstract: 
Focus on Eastern European/former Soviet Union countries; oriented around interviews with artists: performance, printmaking, design, photography, typography, comics, cooking, folk tales.
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English
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koshkazine.tumblr.com

Distance 01: Concerns Beginnings

Location

Chicago
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Magazine, Distance
Date: 
2012
Issue: 
01
Abstract: 
This independent journal operates under the mission of putting forth scholarly essays about design, while being published quarterly. Distance is also published digitally via MailChimp.
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ISSN/ISBN: 
9780985051501
Website: 

distance.cc

Ultra Local Geography: Doors! Of Rogers Park!

Catalog Number: 
Zine Ultra Local Geography
Date: 
Winter 2005
Volume: 
2
Abstract: 
In the second installment of his Ultra Local Geography, Larry Shure documents the "functional beauty" of the portals to various buildings in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. An exhaustive zine-cum-architectural-guidebook, it documents and describes the features of eleven doors, including date, architect, building owner, cost, size, building materials, and even the reference information for the City of Chicago building permits. Shure provides drawings of the doors, their building facades, and street addresses/intersections.
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English
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Convention Challenged

Catalog Number: 
Book, Tigerman, Stanley
Date: 
2006
Abstract: 
Essays, case studies, and commentary from the cofounders, administrators, project facilitators, students, and project partners and consultants, describing Archeworks's 12-year history as an avant-garde education and design institution in Chicago.
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English
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Abstract adapted from inside front cover.
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ISSN/ISBN: 
0975340549

Archeworks

Date: 
2007-2008
Abstract: 
This catalog offers information on Archeworks' alternative design program and school, which provides its students with a Post Professional Diploma in Alternative Design. The program is one full year long and is open to students from a broad range of disciplines; Archeworks is a part-time evening program.
Language: 
English
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Catalog with application form; both enclosed in clear baggie
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Cryptozoa

Location

710 N. Bishop
60622 Chicago, IL
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Book Robinson, Androo
Date: 
2006
Abstract: 
Zine containing whimsical single-panel "picture fictions"
Language: 
2006
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ISSN/ISBN: 
0971213267

How to Colonize the Alphabet

Date: 
eng
Volume: 
Summer 2008
Abstract: 
Handmade book made by students in the Letterpress Bookworks class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The test is set in Grotesque 14 point and Garamond 12 point. The colonized alphabet is set in 25 different typefaces. The colonizer is Helvetica.
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alphabet, letterpress, colonization, typeface, Vandercook, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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