Editor: Ellen Lupton
Publisher: Herb Lubalin Study Centre of Design and Typography
Publication: 1989, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, saddle-stitch
Pages: 32
Size: 210 x 275
Text: English
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(Preface) 'This catalogue continues a series of monographs which situate typography and graphic design in a broader context. In Spring, 1988 the Lubalin Center held the exhibition Period Styles: A History of Punctuation, which examined an overlap between typography and literature, linguistics, and grammar. The idea for a project on numbers was inspired in part by the success of this show.
The visualization of numbers belongs to the origins of writing itself, and is thus the most ancient form of "graphic design." Numbers today permeate everyday life, and they constitute the basic language of science and technology. Numbers appear throughout the disciplines represented by The Cooper Union's schools of Art, Architecture, and Engineering, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; numbers thus offered us an ideal starting point for a school-wide collaboration.'
- Object lessons: A brief history of written numbers - Ellen Lupton
- Ice age numbers - Arthur Corwin
- Numb, numbers and sheer numbers - Jean Le Mee
- The three legged horse - Adi Shamir
- Analysing a painting with Da Vinci's theory of human proportions - Margaret Morton
- Living numbers - Alan Wolf
- Golden numbers and the consistency of mathematics - Paul Bailyn
- Algorithms - Eli Mayerfled
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