W.A. Dwiggins : A life in design / Bruce Kennett

Identifier:REF.AM.2240

Dimensions:xi, 483 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Publication dates:2017

depicts: William Adderson Dwiggins, W. A. Dwiggins

Subjects: Book design -- United States -- History., biographies, graphic design, graphic designers

Description:"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 designer’s wide-ranging creative output and lasting impact on the graphic arts. Bruce Kennett’s careful research, warm prose, and inclusion of numerous personal accounts from Dwiggins’s friends and contemporaries portray not only a brilliant designer, but a truly likable character." --Taken from the publisher's website "What you are holding in your hands is the next best thing to being in Dwiggins's presence. This is an amazingly exhaustive biographical narrative and curated collection of rare and remarkable WAD-work. This book is many things, but most of all it is proof positive that if there is any doubt about the origin theory of graphic design, Dwiggins did more to promote, diversify, and integrate the graphic, typographic, and printing-arts disciplines than anyone else of his generation." --Taken from the Foreword