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3 unusual facts about William Addison Dwiggins


Dwiggins

William Addison Dwiggins (1880–1956), American typographer and illustrator

Seal of Colby College

In 1936, President Franklin W. Johnson commissioned William Addison Dwiggins to design a seal to replace the one then existing, specifying only that it (1) used the same motto as the first and (2) retain the sun as the central theme.

William Addison Dwiggins

His scathing attack on contemporary book designers in An Investigation into the Physical Properties of Books (1919) led to his working with the publisher Alfred A. Knopf.



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