William Addison Dwiggins (June 19, 1880 Martinsville, Ohio - December 25, 1956 Hingham, Massachusetts ) was a U.S. type designer, calligrapher, and book designer.
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- Affiliation:
- The Society of Calligraphers
- Location:
- Hingham, MA
- Birthday:
- June 19
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Daniela Valbuena hi, i am doing a project on Dwiggins for my class and i need some clarification, was he more into the bauhaus or art deco movement? thanks for the help in advance
Jim Nice to have you back. I saw this ad in a 1941 edition of Print magazine. I would love to see a copy of this discourse if you or any of your friends has one.
Misha Typographic Treasures: the Work of W. A. Dwiggins. A keepsake to an ITC exhibition, curated by Dorothy Abbe, Steven Heller, and Louise Filli in 1986.
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Misha Knopf has reposted an excerpt from the wonderful article on the relationship between WAD and AAK, first published in Portrait of a Publisher, 1915-1965: Reminiscences and Reflections by Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. http://tinyurl.com/l8c95
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The coursing Borzoi has always been our trademark. The first dog was designed by an artist in Barron Collier's organization whose name I have long since forgotten, if indeed I ever knew it. My father had this drawn--he was, at the time we started the business, associated with Collier. As time went o...
Misha Too bad Towards a Reform of the Paper Currency ( http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3176120 ) was never taken seriously by powers that be.
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Misha Another Paul Shaw article on WAD I've missed before.
Misha With books on every designer under the sun out there (Paul Rand has at least six posthumous monographs), and the wealth of the archives available, having no monograph on Dwig around seems absurd. Come on, fans!
Charles Nix The Architect and the Industrial Arts: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Design (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929). Deco-madness! Crazy color! Unbridled Dwiggins.
Charles Nix The Cornhill Booklet, November 1914 (Alfred Bartlett, 1914). Dwiggins lets loose with his capitals (and illustration) in this airy design from the early months of World War I.
Charles Nix Yale University Press General Catalogue (Yale University Press, 1919). Dwiggins' neo-Renaissance style border and handlettered type, printed in dark blue ink on lighter blue laid paper. Simple. Elegant. Commanding.
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Pursuant to WAD's post yesterday:
Caravan, A suite of 29 decorative units designed by W.A. Dwiggins for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company (Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1938). A quick, evocative pen-and-ink drawing reproduced in green, provides a sweeping foil to the sparkling Caravan ornaments.
Charles Nix The Bomb That Wouldn't Go Off and Other Fables from Moronia by John Phillips (Bruce Humphries, Inc. 1941). A one-color jacket featuring a variety of styles of Dwiggins' handlettered typography. Notable are the idiosyncratic weighting of serifs in the word "BOMB", and the odd break of the letter "B" by WAD's silhouette ... "pictograph".
William Addison Dwiggins
Linotype Ornaments designed by Dwiggins ::: hand set type, newly cast, and for sale : see collection No. 5
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Custom casting of metal type fonts and decorative borders for letterpress printers
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