Series 6. Digital media, 1994-2005
Scope and Contents
This series consists of 603 floppy disks and zip disks containing files created by Antonucci, primarily using Adobe Illustrator. Available to researchers, upon request, as PDF files,* the files include correspondence, Parsons teaching documents, original art, artist's books, poetry by Antonucci, corporate and book design projects, and business invoices. 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
Among the artist book design projects are illustrations and book layouts for illustrated editions of The Odyssey, Blake's Proverbs of Hell, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and King Lear, Dante's Inferno, a collection of Ancient Greek myths, illustrations of Blake poems, P.G. Whodehouse's British Slang artwork for Antonucci's children's book, The Wreathmaker, and a book of original poetry by Antonucci with illustrations entitled Alcestes. These projects are not represented elsewhere in the collection. Material relating to Antonucci's comic book The Nose, Blake's The Mental Traveller supplement material from these projects found elsewhere in the collection.
Corporate and non-profit (both secular and religious) design projects represented here include logos, letterheads, newsletter covers and interiors, posters, flyers, and brochures for clients 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 cover and interior design material is also 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 the magazine cover and interior 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.
Cover and interior 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 website logo), as well as business correspondence. These items supplement similar material found elsewhere in the collection.
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*The files on 32 three-and-a-half inch floppy disks and 2 zip disks could not be transferred for technical reasons--these files are not accessible at this time.
Dates
- 1994-2005