W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design (Limited Deluxe Edition)

NEW! Letterform Archive, 2017, Hardcover, 496 pages, Over 1,200 Illustrations, 9 11 1.25 inches. --- --- ---. This deluxe edition of WA Dwiggins: A Life in Design features a specially bound version of the book with a signed and numbered letterpress portfolio, housed together in a slipcase. The deluxe book is bound in Dwiggins-designed decorated paper over boards and a genuine leather spine stamped with Dwiggins ornaments and hand lettering by Richard Lipton. The letterpress portfolio contains 20 pages of Dwigginss writings (some never before published), printed letterpress from Linotype. The texts five essays and two works of fiction, plus a title page and colophon are set on the Linotype in Dwigginss Caledonia, Electra, Eldorado, Metro, and the very rare Falcon, accompanied by an assortment of Caravan ornaments. Twenty-two illustrations, hand-lettered titles, and decorated initials (all made from original Dwiggins pen-and-ink artwork in the files of Boston Public Library) accompany the text, reproduced via high-quality copper photoengravings The portfolio pages are printed by letterpress on Mohawk Superfine, in single sheets and four-page folders. The colophon page is signed by all members of the letterpress production team. The outer portfolio, made from Strathmore Grandee cover, features a Dwiggins ornament blind-embossed on the front cover . --- --- About the Book: Often credited with inventing the term "graphic design," W A Dwiggins was a quintessential maker fabricating his own tools, inventing techniques, and experimenting with design in areas as wide-ranging as modular ornament, stamps, currency, books, kites, marionettes, and theatrical sets and lighting. More than any of his contemporaries, he united the full range of applied arts into a single profession designer. Despite this, a thorough study of Dwiggins has never been published until now. W A Dwiggins: A Life in Design offers an engaging and inspiring overview of the designers wide-ranging creative output.

Product Info

ISBN: 0998318019

ISBN-13: 9780998318011

Publisher: Letterform Archive

Year: 2017

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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