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Its funny, I thought this article might be about Dwiggins losing his work in a fire. When he was working with the Village Press, they moved from Massachusetts t
by galago 9y ago
Its funny, I thought this article might be about Dwiggins losing his work in a fire. When he was working with the Village Press, they moved from Massachusetts to New York City. The office was destroyed in a fire on Jan. 10, 1908. Obviously,"Graphic artists" (I think he invented the term) didn't back up to the "cloud" in those days; everything was physical. His also famous mentor/collaborator, Fred Goudy, lost work in both that fire, and another in 1936. The article doesn't mention the fire, but details like this explain how extremely high quality projects didn't survive, or didn't re-emerge until the digital revivals.
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