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Series 6. Digital media, 1994-2005

 Series — Multiple Containers

Scope and Contents

This series consists of hundreds of floppy disks and zip disks containing files created by Antonucci, primarily using Adobe Illustrator. Files are available to researchers as PDF files upon request.

Largely comprising graphic design work for collaborative projects and clients, a small number files include Parsons teaching documents. Files are pages from artist's books, illustrations and illustrated poetry, corporate newsletters, logos, book covers, and spot illustrations for magazines. Other files document Antonucci's business, including invoices and business cards. This material supplements existing series and subseries within the collection. An index of file titles comprising the digital media may be viewed in Google docs here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bll4OHvcHyTybQFZoMIuZz43IN0MpA54fNWAxzG5d70/pub

Most of the disks contain at most a handful of files, many just one or two, usually related to the same project. The titles in this series represent the name of the project, often shortened versions of titles and organizations, many of which are represented elsewhere in this collection by physical elements.

Among the artist book design projects represented here are illustrations and book layouts for illustrated editions of The Odyssey, Proverbs of Hell (William Blake), Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear (William Shakespeare), Dante's Inferno, a collection of Ancient Greek myths, British Slang (P.G. Wodehouse), and artwork for Antonucci's children's book, The Wreathmaker, among other projects. Also included are a book of original poetry by Antonucci illustrated by him, Alcestes. Some of these projects are represented elsewhere in the collection by physical materials, others are only available as digital files in this series.

[this is from earlier note--need to find those two disks--I don't think these were among those files migrated]: Material relating to Antonucci's comic book The Nose, Blake's The Mental Traveller supplement material from these projects found elsewhere in the collection.

Antonucci's design clients represent a wide range of Catholic religious organizations, as well as secular groups. Files include logos, letterheads, newsletter covers and interiors, posters, fliers, and brochures for clients

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such as: Parsons School of Design; the UN Children’s Rights Campaign; White Plains Hospital Center; National Pastoral Life Center; Mercy College; Hastings Center; Enterprise Corporation of the Delta; Women’s Lens; St. Aloysius Church; The Friars of the Atonement; Robert Malone; AFL-CIO Local 144; St. Luke’s LifeWorks; North American Forum for Small Christian Communities; Hastings; Center for Family Life in Sunset Park; National Medical Foundation; Geoffrey Knox, Communication Consultant; Public Discipleship Project; Follow Me Social Ministry; and the Catholic Medical Mission Board. These supplement material from these clients found elsewhere in the collection.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Antonucci began doing design work for a number of Catholic high schools. Included here is design material relating to projects for Chaminade-Julienne; Kennedy School; Mother Seton Academy; Precious Blood; Catholic School; Pace Academy.

Unique book design work is included herein for titles such as: Promise of Obedience; Story as a Way of Knowing; Quicker, Better, Cheaper: Managing Performance in American Government; We All Have a Share: A Catholic Vision of Prosperity through Productivity; Veerni Means Strong Woman; The Human Condition; Make that Spare: A Guide to Better Bowling; a wide variety of Knopf fiction titles, including William H. Gass’s The Tunnel and Salman Rushdie’s East, West; Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities; Spirituality in Transition; and Design Connections.

Also found here are magazine design for Church, Commonweal, Dissent, and the New York Times Book Review. Other design projects for these magazines can be found elsewhere in the collection; however, the items in this series are unique.

Also found here is material pertaining to Antonucci's teaching at Parsons School of Design, including his teaching resume/curriculum vitae, and syllabi and assignments for the courses Editorial Design; Corporate Image; Senior Portfolio Development; Logo Design; and Design for Communication. These supplement material from these clients found elsewhere in the collection.

Much of this series consists of business invoices sent from Antonucci to clients such as the National Pastoral Life Center, Partners in Healing, Children’s Rights Campaign, Rockefeller Institute; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Paulist press; New York Academy of Medicine; F.B. Heron foundation; Persimmon Magazine; Xavier; Marianist academy; and FRIENDS. While materials relating to design projects for these clients are found elsewhere, the invoices and bills are unique to this series.

Designs for poetry books by Ruth Cullen are also found herein, as well as Antonucci's personal business designs (his own letterhead, business cards, and w[ebsite logo) and business correspondence. These items supplement similar material found elsewhere in the collection; as well as Antonucci's annual Christmas cards.

[general note that was in the Digital Object record, where we don't generally have notes, so adding here for the moment: Contained here are files found on a large collection of Emil Antonucci's floppy disks. The files were created by Antonucci using Adobe Illustrator, and are available to researchers (upon request) as pdfs. A directory of the files can be found here: INSERT LINK HERE. Researchers are advised to view these files in conjunction with physical materials found elsewhere in this collection. Titles in this series do not always precisely match the titles in other parts of this finding aid.

These files contain items relating to Antonucci's teaching, book design, and corporate design projects. Among the design projects are illustrations and book layouts for illustrated editions of The Odyssey, King Lear, Dante's Inferno, and a collection of Ancient Greek myths, illustrations of Blake poems, and artwork for his children's book The Wreathmaker.

Corporate design projects represented here include Parsons' Magazine and logo design; the Childen's Rights Office; NPLC; the Rockefeller Foundation; and Duke University.

Also found here is material pertaining to Antonucci's teaching at Parsons, including his teaching curriculum vitae, syllabi and assignments for the courses Communication Design and Advanced Graphic Design: Portfolio Preparation. Documents provide guidance on editorial design, corporate image (logo) design

Finally, the digital files contain a number of Antonucci's personal business designs (his own letterhead, business cards, and website logo), as well as correspondence with his sister, Catherine, and poetry written by Ruth Cullen.

Dates

  • 1994-2005

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

The original files saved to this collection of floppy and zip disks were primarily created in Adobe Illustrator (1426) as .eps and .ai formats. Additional formats include: ○ Microsoft Word Documents, .doc (27) ○ Microsoft Word for Macintosh Documents, doc (word4) (11) ○ Macintosh PICT Images, .pict (7) ○ Tagged Image File Format, .tif (3) ○ QuickTime, .mov (3) ○ JPEG File Interchange Format, .jpeg (1)