Thanks Ken for your diligence,
My first 10 minutes searching didn't bring them to light immediately and as
they were so copiously referred to as the seminal beginnings of the graphic
design field I would have expected them to appear on the web via the
simplest searches.
It might be expected those interested in the history of the graphic design
field - if history is regarded as important in graphic design - would make
them more easily available.
And while I have some trust in library catalogues, I'd still like to see
some visual evidence beyond metadata of the book.
Wondering what the search criteria were you used to find the essay?
And I'd like to say I'm not the only one with difficulty finding a copy of
the essay. Victor Margolin indicates he couldn't find a copy either and was
relying on the work of others. He wrote , ' American designer William A.
Dwiggins's newspaper article of 1922 "New Kinds of Printing Calls for New
Design." Dwiggins, who *allegedly* [my emphasis] used the term "graphic
design" for the first time in that article.'
(http://tigger.uic.edu/~victor/reviews/designorigins.pdf)
Best regards,
Terry
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Terry,
From time to time I wonder whether you have the basic research skills we
expect in anyone with a PhD. This is not an ad hominem attack. It is a
challenge to your skills and knowledge as a researcher. You spend immense
amounts of time asking for evidence of simple facts that you could easily
determine with basic research research skills.
You ask, "Do you have evidence of Raffe's book existing, such as an image of
its cover?"
Check the catalogue of the British Library. The British Library has two
editions, 1927 and 1932. Both were published in London by Chapman and Hall.
You can search the full catalogue on the web.
You write, "I also see no copies anywhere of Dwiggins' essay. Again
puzzling. They are both referred to all over the place in the history of
graphic design literature, but, in view of the evidence, I'm left with a
question as to whether they actually exist."
The Dwiggins essay is reprinted in a 1999 book from Allworth Press titled
Looking Closer 3: Classic Writings on Graphic Design. The original appeared
in a 1922 supplement to The Boston Transcript, a newspaper no longer
published. If you don't believe the evidence of the Allworth Press reprint,
locate a microform copy of the newspaper.
There is a genuine problem here if you looked for these items and could not
find them. I located this information in a few minutes on the web.
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Chair Professor of Design Innovation
Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai,
China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation
| Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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