Rudge, William Edwin
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Rudge, William Edwin (1876–1931), New York printer and publisher, distinguished as a typographer and designer of beautiful books, was influential in translating the ideals of the private press into commercial bookmaking. Occasional collaborators included Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Frederic Warde, and Dwiggins.
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CREATIONS OF A TOWERING MIND
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/22/2002; ; 427 words
; ...All are marionettes built by William Addison Dwiggins (1880- 1956), who used physics...his creations move fluidly. Dwiggins biographer Dorothy Abbe, in...and maker of his own tools. Dwiggins turned to making marionettes...
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Calligraphy and letterpress in design education.
Magazine article from: Printing History; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Jan Tschichold, Paul Renner, Eric Gill, William A. Dwiggins, Rudolf Koch, Georg Trump, Adrian Frutiger...Adrian Frutiger; Kabel by Rudolf Koch; Metro by William Addison Dwiggins; Syntax by Hans Edward Meer; Myriad by Carol...
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The SP Century: Boston's Society of Printers through One Hundred Years of Change.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Libraries and the Cultural Record; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...designer of the typefaces Centaur and Montaigne), William Addison Dwiggins (for whom the society's lecture series is named...the society is dedicated. As Kosofsky explains, Dwiggins had already coined the term "graphic design" in...
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BOOKMAKING
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/14/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...author and illustrator, will give the 23d annual Dwiggins lecture Thursday at 6 p.m. in Rabb Lecture Hall...and open to the public, the lecture is named for William Addison Dwiggins, book designer, type designer, calligraphist...
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Single currency: Quentin Newark reviews a new book charting the emergence of graphic design in Germany, but asks why it only pays lip service to its own appearance. (The Week Ahead).
Magazine article from: Design Week; 10/13/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...converged into a single profession drawn together by mass circulation printing. This is similar to American William Addison Dwiggins' term "graphic design", coined in 1922 and defined by him as "printing for purpose". Aynsley holds on...
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Calvino's reality: designer's utopia. (Italo Calvino)(Architecture, Design, and Utopia)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Graphic design was a term coined by William Addison Dwiggins in 1922 describing his activities as bringing structural order and visual form to printed communication (Meggs, xiii). The...
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Graphic description: in the quest to describe the design disciplines, Quentin Newark gives us his glossary of the graphics idiom. (Design Terminology).(Glossary)
Magazine article from: Design Week; 9/19/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Critical Voices in New British Design, suggests the term 'graphic design'--coined in 1922 by the American William Addison Dwiggins--is limited, and 'visual communication' reflects more accurately graphic design's extension beyond its...
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Koh designs for success
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...designers are visual communicators. (The term "graphic designer" was coined by American book and type designer William Addison Dwiggins in 1922 and achieved widespread usage only after World War II. Prior to that, they were known as commercial...
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MELBOURNE CUMMINGS FOUNDER OF PUBLISHING COMPANY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/12/1990; 373 words
; ...Wesley Cummings, who founded the Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. in 1942...home in Melrose. He was 84. Addison-Wesley, which moved its headquarters...New Hampshire in 1962 and the William A. Dwiggins Award of the Bookbuilders of Boston...
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William Addison Dwiggins
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Addison Dwiggins 1880-1956, American type designer, calligrapher, and book designer...followed and did much to increase public interest in book format. Dwiggins was perhaps more responsible than any other designer for the marked...
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