Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
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Type Designers
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Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
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William Addison Dwiggins
American, –
Typefaces: Metro, Geometric 415 (1929),
Elante, Electra, Transitional 521 (1935), Caledonia (1938),
Winchester (1944), Eldorado (1953), Falcon (1961)
William Addison Dwiggins was born in in
Cambridge, Ohio. At nineteen, he studied lettering
with Frederic Goudy () at the Frank Holme School
of Illustration in Chicago.
Dwiggins pursued a diverse career that included
illustration, calligraphy, printing, advertising, and
book design. After working as a freelance designer,
he was appointed acting director of Harvard University
Press in , and in , founded the Society of
Calligraphers in Boston.
At age forty-four, he began designing typefaces
exclusively for the Linotype () machine and at the
invitation of Mergenthaler Linotype. His fi rst typeface
was a sans serif, Metro. His best-known typeface, Cale-
donia, combines characteristics of the Scotch Romans
and the typeface Bulmer designed by William Martin.
In the s () and s (), Dwiggins created the
typographic house style for publisher Alfred Knopf
in New York City. In , the American Institute of
Graphic Arts () awarded Dwiggins his profession’s
highest honor, the AIGA medal.
Tobias Frere-Jones
American, –
Typefaces: Dolores, Nobel (1991),
Archipelago, Garage Gothic (1992),
Cafeteria, Epitaph, Interstate, Reactor,
Reiner Script, Stereo (1993),
Armada, Fibonacci, Hightower, Niagara (1994),
Asphalt, Citadel, Microphone, Pilsner (1995),
Whitney (1996), Griffi th Gothic, Phemister (1997),
Grand Central, Welo Script (1998), Gotham, Retina (2000),
Nitro, Surveyor (2001), Exchange, Idlewild (2002),
Dulcet, Monarch (2003), Argosy, Tungsten (2004)
Tobias Frere-Jones is a prolifi c type designer and teacher,
and the director of typography at Hoefl er & Frere-Jones
(), a prominent type foundry in New York City.
After completing his studies at the Rhode Island
School of Design () in , he joined The Font
Bureau, Inc. () in Boston as a senior designer. During
his seven-year tenure there, he created some of the
foundry’s best-known typefaces, including Interstate.
Frere-Jones left The Font Bureau in to return to
New York City, where he began working with Jonathan
Hoefl er (). In the past decade-plus, he has designed
more than typefaces for publications, institutions,
and corporate clients including the Wall Street Journal,
Martha Stewart Living, GQ, Esquire, the New York Times,
and the Boston Globe.
He joined the faculty of the Yale School of Art ()
in , where he continues to teach graduate-level
typeface design courses. In , Frere-Jones became
the fi rst American to receive the Gerrit Noordzij Prize,
presented by the Royal Academy of Art (), The Hague
in honor of his unique contribution to type design,
typography, and type education.
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