biography
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Dwiggins, William Addison
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1956)
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| biography:
| Book designer, born in Martinsville, Ohio, USA. An associate of Frederic Goudy, he bought his own press in 1910 and produced a seriocomic magazine, The Fabulist (1915–21). He co-wrote an influential pamphlet decrying American books as poorly made. As a designer, especially for Alfred A Knopf, he produced some of the finest books of his time, and his analysis of typefaces in Layout in Advertising (1928) was a classic. From 1929 he designed many distinctive typefaces for the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. |
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