[Dwiggins letterhead + envelope with note from Dorothy Abbe] Ephemera typographic experiments

typographic experiments

This stunning diptych celebrates two eminent American presses

It is a significant architectural document as it was organized by a young Richard Meier (before his “New York Five” fame and Pritzker Prize) and features seminal modernist works

Thanks to Dan for writing

fonts conceived from the outset as a marriage of technology and the best in design expertise to improve the appearance of text on certain types of monitors through the use of subpixel rendering technology

[Dwiggins letterhead + envelope with note from Dorothy Abbe] Ephemera typographic experimentsZip codes were introduced in 1963. They were made mandatory in 1967. W. A. Dwiggins died in 1956. So, these were designed by WAD for personal correspondence when he lived in Hingham, Massachusetts, but they were adapted by Dorothy Abbe to include the zip code for Hingham. This was mailed by Dorothy Abbe to the designer Howard Gralla on June 10, 1980. Howard had given a talk about Dwiggins at Stinehour Press on June 7. Shed already sent him another