Letterform Archive’s associate curator Stephen Coles is speaking at the Society of Printers’s annual Dwiggins Lecture on April 1, 2025. The topic: warmth & snap in type design. https://www.societyofprinters.org/calendar/coles-dwiggins

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Thu, Sep 5! Join us online for our 50th salon, W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design with Rob Saunders.

W. A. Dwiggins was a giant in the field of graphic design: a master calligrapher, type designer, illustrator, private press printer, and a pioneer of advertising, magazine, and book design. Learn about this quintessential maker as our founder, Rob Saunders— a longtime fan and collector of Dwiggins— shares rare examples of his work from the Archive.

Register: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/salon-series-50-w-a-dwiggins-a-life-in-design/

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W. A. Dwiggins was one of the most influential and innovative designers of his generation and the subject of our 2017 book, W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design, the first-ever thorough study of the American type designer, calligrapher, book designer, and illustrator.

This year we’re reprinting that book. To get your copy at the early bird price of $50, back our project on Kickstarter before the campaign ends: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/letterformarchive/reprinting-w-a-dwiggins-a-life-in-design-by-bruce-kennett?ref=8j2mnz

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W. A. Dwiggins, The Feather-Vender Zodiac Calendar, published by Herbert W. Simpson, Inc., 1951.

On the blog: Calendar Design in the Online Archive. We’re starting 2024 with a selection of objects in the Online Archive that chart Gregorian timekeeping across the 20th century: https://letterformarchive.org/news/calendar-design-in-the-online-archive/

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@letterformarchive This alphabet by #WADwiggins was repeatedly turned into a typeface. We are aware of
• Fast Lady D by Lettergraphics, 1970s
• Dwiggins Deco by Matt Desmond, MADType, 2009
• Dwiggins Initials KK by John Wollring, Koeiekat, 2012.

See Dwiggins Deco in use by @practise and Wayne Daly: https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/18171/dwiggins-deco

W. A. Dwiggins, cover design for American Alphabets edited by Paul Hollister, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1930. See the rest of the book, including another Dwiggins alphabet, in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_dwiggins_0175

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Details from envelopes promoting W. A. Dwiggins’s typefaces Electra (1935–44) and Caledonia (1938) for Linotype.

These promotions are a bit misleading; despite the names of the typefaces appearing in elegant scripts, Electra and Caledonia are serif text typefaces seen below.

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