afonseca1974 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Hi everyone! Does anyone here as a sample (Hires please) of William Addison Dwiggins Falcon promotional poster? Or a sample in use? Does any digital version of it exists? Thanks in advance. António Fonseca Link to comment
kentlew Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 There has been no digitization that I'm aware of. I think Dorothy Abbe (WAD's heir) denied permission during her lifetime. I'm not aware of any promotional poster for Falcon. The fonts were only published posthumously, released in 1961 under Jackson Burke's supervision, many years after Dwiggins had passed away. WAD did some preparations on a promotional booklet (specimen) in 1943. I've seen some of the setups in the C.H. Griffith archive, but I'm not sure it was ever published when the fonts were released, and I've never run across the printed piece (though I'd love to add it to my collection). I have some proofs of Falcon, but I'm not inclined to post hi-res images to the Internet. What's your specific interest? Feel free to contact me off-line. Maybe I can trade you for some Quinto do Noval Nacional 2000 vintage . . . Just kidding ;-) -- Kent. Link to comment
kentlew Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Just remembered this image I already posted in a previous thread a couple months ago: Link to comment
speter Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Didn't Tiffany write about Falcon (inter alia) for her dissertation at Reading? Link to comment
nepenthe Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Yes she did. You can download it from TypeCulture. I didn't see any images of Falcon in the article, however. Link to comment
Miss Tiffany Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 I only have the same information as Kent. Sorry to disappoint. Link to comment
kentlew Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Well, except that Tiffany actually has an example of the first Falcon design, the one that was eventually scrapped and never produced. Tiff -- Do you still have that issue of the Dolphin that you outbid me for at a TypeCon auction? There's a story (a Poe story, I think) set in Falcon Experimental No. 249. I think it's unidentified and uncredited. -- K. Link to comment
Miss Tiffany Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 I had completely forgotten about that. :^/ Yes. I believe I do still have it...somewhere. Link to comment
afonseca1974 Posted February 13, 2009 Author Share Posted February 13, 2009 Miss Tiffany Can you post a sample? Thanks in advance António Link to comment
Miss Tiffany Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I don't have a scanner here. Let me see if I can find it. Perhaps I can get Miguel to post it for me. Link to comment
afonseca1974 Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Miss Tiffany Any luck? Thanks again. António Link to comment
Miss Tiffany Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 António please keep poking me and eventually I will remember. I'm very sorry. I will try, again, to get it to Miguel for scanning. Link to comment
Miss Tiffany Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 António, my first pass on my books and I can't find it. I'll look again tomorrow. Sorry. Link to comment
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