PAST SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
PAUL SHAW ON W. A. DWIGGINS
A PAUL SHAW CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP
THE KING LIBRARY PRESS FALL 2008 SEMINAR IN GRAPHIC DESIGN
Friday, 14 November 2008, 7:00 P.M. “The Books of WAD” PAUL SHAW The Great Hall, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky — free & open to all —
Saturday, 15 November 2008, 9:00 A.M. A Calligraphy Workshop with Paul Shaw The King Library Press, Margaret I. King Library — registration required —
Saturday, 15 November 2008 8:30 A.M. Continental Breakfast at the King Library Press 9:00 A.M. Calligraphy Workshop with Paul Shaw Begins (Bring your lunch; beverages provided. All workshop materials provided.)
To register for this King Library Press Workshop make a reservation by calling (859) 257-8408 or (859) 257-1742 or by contacting klijdb@uky.edu Then send your check in the amount of $25.00 to THE KING LIBRARY PRESS Special Collections - King Library Building University of Kentucky Libraries
PAUL SHAW is a design historian, type designer, and calligrapher teaching at the Parsons School for Design in New York. His clients include Revlon, Avon, Clairol, Lord & Taylor, Mattel (Barbie), Rolex, and Campbell Soup. He is the author of articles and books on various aspects of lettering and type, including The Calligraphic Tradition in Black Letter Type (1999), Letterforms (1986), A Chronology of the Lettering Arts from 1850 to 2000 (2 vols., 2000 and 2001) and “Looking for Letters in New York: A Tale of Surprise and Dismay” in Letters From New York (2006). He has lectured for the N.Y. Public Library, the American Printing History Association, and the Printing Historical Society (London) and has received fellowships and grants from the American Academy in Rome, the NEH, the Smithsonian, the Book Club of California, the Printing Historical Society, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
WILLIAM ADDISON DWIGGINS (1880-1956) was a book designer, type designer, calligrapher, and author. Born in Martinsville, Ohio, Dwiggins studied lettering and decorative design under Frederic Goudy in Chicago. In 1904 he joined Goudy’s Village Press in Hingham, Massachusetts, where he lived the remainder of his life. Dwiggins spent the first half of his career as a commercial artist, an activity that culminated in the 1929 AIGA Gold Medal. In 1922 he coined the term ”graphic design“ to describe a shift in printing work from books to ephemera. His later career was devoted to book and type design. He designed over 300 books for Alfred A. Knopf as well as books for the Limited Editions Club. For Mergenthaler Linotype Dwiggins completed five released typefaces – among them Metro, Electra and Caledonia. His work for Mergenthaler is chronicled in the C.H. Griffith Papers at the University of Kentucky.