That design was used widely and, like Dwiggins ' seal, had its date changed from " 1770 " to " 1769 " around 1958.

While Graphic Design as a discipline has a relatively recent history, with the term " graphic design " first coined by William Addison Dwiggins in 1922, graphic design-like activities span the history of humankind: from the caves of Lascaux, to Rome's Trajan's Column to the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, to the dazzling neons of Ginza.

Dwiggins was perhaps more responsible than any other designer for the marked improvement in book design in the 1920s and 1930s.

Since its founding, Knopf has paid close attention to design and typography, employing notable designers and typographers including William Addison Dwiggins, Harry Ford, Steven Heller, Chip Kidd, Bruce Rogers, Rudolf Ruzicka, and Beatrice Warde.

William Addison Dwiggins ( June 19, 1880 Martinsville, Ohio-December 25, 1956 Hingham Center, Massachusetts ) was a U. S. type designer, calligrapher, and book designer.

In 1957, A year after his death ( DEC, 25 1956 ), Bookbuilders of Boston, an organization of book publishing professionals that Dwiggins helped to establish, renamed their highest award the W. A.

He and his wife Mabel Hoyle Dwiggins ( February 27, 1881-September 28, 1958 ) are buried in the Hingham Center Cemetery, Hingham Center, Massachusetts, just steps from their home at 30 Leavitt Street, and Dwiggins ’ studio at 45 Irving Street.

In fact, at one point the brothers toyed with the idea of naming the area Dwiggins Junction.

The College Publications Committee commissioned noted typographer W. A. Dwiggins to create a line drawing version of the seal in 1940 that saw widespread use.

The name " Graphic Design " first appeared in print in the 1922 essay " New Kind of Printing Calls for New Design " by William Addison Dwiggins, an American book designer in the early 20th century.

Don Dwiggins, in his biography of Paul Mantz ( who assisted Earhart and Noonan in their flight planning ), noted that the aviators had cut off their long-wire antenna, due to the annoyance of having to crank it back into the aircraft after each use.

Two developers in particular, brothers Jay and Elmer Dwiggins, are often referred to as “ the town founders .” The Dwigginses were land developers and speculators.

The Dwiggins brothers unfortunately did not have the financial backing they needed, because of the Panic of 1893.

As the country moved into the twentieth century, the tiny community sifted through the rubble of the broken dreams of the Dwiggins brothers.

The five aldermen were W. B. Dwiggins, Jack Neill, Clyde Pittman, Howard Easter and J. W. Bishop.

Adams, Jr. and contributing editors including Rockwell Kent, W. A. Dwiggins, Frederic Goudy, Dard Hunter, Bruce Rogers, A. Edward Newton and many others who were well known in the book world.

* Electra, one of the first popular modern serif typefaces, designed by W. A. Dwiggins

There was only one way to accomplish this: by design, by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

With greater investments in plant facilities, with automation growing, you can't switch around, either in volume or in product design, as much as was formerly possible -- or at least not as economically.

At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.

It was shown that by proper anode design the net energy loss of the arc to the anode could be reduced to approximately 15% of the total arc energy.

Michelangelo was the most distinguished of several noted architects who helped design it.

); its design was planned by the government of the day ; and it places individual letters in syllable clusters with equal dimensions, in the same way as Chinese characters, to allow for mixed-script writing ( one syllable always takes up one type-space no matter how many letters get stacked into building that one sound-block ).

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.

It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, a design for a mechanical computer.

During this project he realized that a much more general design, the Analytical Engine, was possible.

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

The design by Gaudi was not followed in some aspects.

It replaces the " sheaves of wheat " design, and was minted until 2008.

The mechanical and logic design was worked out by Dr. Atanasoff over the next year.

The design, development and construction of the center was conducted by Kurt H. Debus, a member of Dr. Wernher von Braun's original V-2 rocket engineering team.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

But the design of the idealized free library was the subject of prolonged and heated debate.

Commodore's design choice to remain with the 68000 architecture ensured that code was backward-compatible across the Amiga line.

Thus, the Turun Sanomat Building first heralded Aalto's move towards modernism, and this was then carried forward both in the Paimio Sanatorium and in the on-going design for the library.

It was Maire Gullichsen who acted as the main client, and she worked closely not only with Alvar but also Aino Aalto on the design, inspiring them to be more daring in their work.

The original design was to include a private art gallery, but this was never built.