W. A. Dwiggins
Recent articles about W. A. Dwiggins
Reputations: Rob Saunders
Issue 108, Spring 2025
‘We are in a moment of fascination with everything analogue, especially for designers who spend all day working on screens for screens. For them, it’s refreshing and mind-opening and inspiring in some magical way I can’t fully explain.’ Interview: Eric Heiman [EXTRACT]
Crowd control
Issue 101, Summer 2021
Designers are making illustrated books through crowdfunding instead of traditional publishing methods. By John L. Walters
The man who invented graphic design
Issue 23, Winter 1996
When W.A. Dwiggins called himself a graphic designer, he coined the phrase that would define professional practice
Cult of the ugly
Issue 9, Summer 1993
Designers used to stand for beauty and order. Now beauty is passé and ugliness is smart. How did we get here and is there any way out?
Recent blog posts about W. A. Dwiggins
A century of lick and stick
28 November 2013
Design history, Graphic design, Reviews, Visual culture
Michael Russem’s Postage Stamps By AIGA Medalists features graphic design in miniature from 1909-2007
Michael Russem’s book Postage Stamps by AIGA Medalists, showcases almost every known stamp designed by…