William Addison Dwiggins (June 19, 1880 – December 25, 1956), was an American type designer , calligrapher, and book designer. He attained prominence as an illustrator and commercial artist, and he brought to the designing of type and books some of the boldness that he displayed in his advertising work. His work can be described as ornamented and geometric, similar to the Art Moderne and Art Deco styles of the period, using Oriental influences and breaking from the more antiquarian styles of his colleagues and mentors Updike , Cleland and Goudy .
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38-811: A marionette theatre in a garage at 5 Irving Street, which was behind his home at 30 Leavitt Street in Hingham, Massachusetts. He also created a puppet group named the Püterschein Authority. In 1933 he performed his first show there, "The Mystery of the Blind Beggarman." Dwiggins built his second theatre under his studio at 45 Irving Street. Further productions of the Püterschein Authority included "Prelude to Eden," "Brother Jeromy," "Millennium 1," and "The Princess Primrose of Shahaban in Persia." Most of his marionettes were twelve inches tall. The marionettes were donated to
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95-747: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe . The Press considered his fee of $ 2,000 to be low for an illustrator of his commercial power. Many of Dwiggins' designs used celluloid stencils to create repeating units of decoration. He and his wife Mabel Hoyle Dwiggins (February 27, 1881 – September 28, 1958) are buried in the Hingham Center Cemetery, Hingham Center, Massachusetts, near their home at 30 Leavitt Street, and Dwiggins' studio at 45 Irving Street. After Dwiggins' wife's death, many of Dwiggins' works and assets passed to his assistant Dorothy Abbe. A full-length biography of Dwiggins by Bruce Kennett, believed to be
114-516: The Physical Properties of Books (1919) led to his working with the publisher Alfred A. Knopf . Alblabooks, a series of finely conceived and executed trade books followed and did much to increase public interest in book format. Having become bored with advertising work, Dwiggins was perhaps more responsible than any other designer for the marked improvement in book design in the 1920s and 1930s. An additional factor in his transition to book design
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171-623: The first, was published in 2018 by the Letterform Archive museum of San Francisco. Dwiggins' interest in lettering led to the Mergenthaler Linotype Company , sensing Dwiggins' talent and knowledge, hiring Dwiggins in March 1929 as a consultant to create a sans-serif typeface, which became Metro , in response to similar type being sold from European foundries such as Erbar , Futura , and Gill Sans , which Dwiggins felt failed in
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209-424: The lower-case. Dwiggins went on to have a successful working relationship with Chauncey H. Griffith , Linotype's Director of Typographic Development, and all his typefaces were created for them. His most widely used book typefaces, Electra and Caledonia , were specifically designed for Linotype composition and have a clean spareness. The following list of his typefaces is thought to be complete. Dwiggins had
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#1732855204362228-527: The misfortune of entering the field of type design during a period that encompassed, successively, the Great Depression and the Second World War , and as a result, many of his designs did not progress beyond experimental castings. Several of his typefaces saw commercial release only after his death, or, while not released themselves, have been used as inspiration for other designers. The Metro series
247-577: The rest of his life. He gained recognition as a lettering artist and wrote much on the graphic arts, notably essays collected in MSS by WAD (1949), and his Layout in Advertising (1928; rev. ed. 1949) remains standard. During the first half of the twentieth century he also created pamphlets using the pen name "Dr. Hermann Puterschein". His scathing attack on contemporary book designers in An Investigation into
266-443: The title Wad . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wad&oldid=1210108453 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages wad From Misplaced Pages,
285-668: The title Wad . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wad&oldid=1210108453 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages William Addison Dwiggins Dwiggins began his career in Chicago, working in advertising and lettering. With his colleague Frederic Goudy , he moved east to Hingham, Massachusetts , where he spent
304-549: The upper-left corner is just kind of mystifying, or the lower-case ‘e’ that's thinnest at the lower-left corner”. Besides Dwiggins' type design, a text written by Dwiggins in Layout in Advertising on choosing a font, beginning "Why do the pace-makers in the art of printing rave over a specific face of type? What do they see in it?", has been used by many font designers as a filler text , similar to Quousque tandem or lorem ipsum . Dwiggins' love of wood carving led to his creation of
323-632: Was a 1922 diagnosis with diabetes, at the time often fatal. He commented "it has revolutionised my whole attack. My back is turned on the more banal kind of advertising...I will produce art on paper and wood after my own heart with no heed to any market." In 1926, the Chicago Lakeside Press recruited Dwiggins to design a book for the Four American Books Campaign . He said he welcomed the chance to "do something besides waste-basket stuff" which would be "promptly thrown away" and chose
342-512: Was redesigned on entering production, with several characters changed to better echo the then-popular Futura . This formed the Metro No. 2 series. Some revivals return to Dwiggins' original design choices or offer them as alternates. Other fonts, inspired by his various lettering projects, have been created after his death, although these were not authorised by Dwiggins in his lifetime: A trick used by Dwiggins to create dynamic-looking letter shapes
361-509: Was to design letters so the curves on the inside of the letter do not match those on the outside, creating abrupt changes in curves. This intentional irregularity was inspired by the difficulty of carving marionettes for his puppet theatre. It has since been used by other serif font designers such as Martin Majoor and Cyrus Highsmith . Jonathan Hoefler comments on Hingham that it contains “many unusual things”: “that lower-case ‘o’ that's heaviest at
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