Design Monograms with Style
What is a monogram? What role do letters play in a logo? What differentiates the typography of calligraphy?
A course by GM Meave , Designer, Illustrator, Calligrapher, and Typographer
Joined February 2016
About the video: What is a monogram? What role do letters play in a logo? What differentiates the typography of calligraphy?
Overview
“You will know what a monogram is, its applications, utility and its functional relationship with a logo or signature. You will learn to distinguish between the written letter, the drawn letter and the prefabricated letter.”
In this video lesson GM Meave addresses the topic: What is a monogram? What role do letters play in a logo? What differentiates the typography of calligraphy?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design Monograms with Style. Learn to use calligraphy and lettering to create dynamic and clever monograms.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] Hello in this lesson let's get into the matter What is a monogram? There are several definitions but I would like to give two. One ancient and one modern. According to what we were seeing In the last lesson of history, Well a monogram is more than anything a symbol based on letters artfully arranged and memorable. I gave you the example of that SPQR what are some acronyms that can be synthesized in a new symbol. That would be a traditional monogram and it is how it was used for many centuries but currently where the preferred word What we have is the logo, we can give a modern defin...”
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Course summary for: Design Monograms with Style
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Branding & Identity, Calligraphy, Graphic Design, Logo Design

GM Meave
A course by GM Meave
Gabriel Meave is a graphic and typographic designer, illustrator, and calligrapher, born and based in Mexico City. His work spans editorial and book design, corporate identity, logos, graphic work, calligraphy, and font design and typeface families.
He has illustrated narrative, fantasy and fiction books for authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Villoro, and Cornelia Funke, and designed special typefaces for companies such as Telcel, the financial newspaper El Economista, Jumex, and El Palacio de Hierro stores, as well as the institutional font of the federal government of Mexico.
His original Arcana and Organic typefaces are distributed internationally by Adobe Systems, and he has carried out design and branding projects for Mexicana de Aviación, Corona, P&G, McMillan, Pearson Education, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Ogilvy & Mather, and various agencies, publishers, and design firms.
Throughout his career, he's received five awards from the Type Directors Club of New York and three from the Association Typographique Internationale and several of his photographs have been selected for the Tipos Latinos biennials in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012.
His calligraphic and illustrative work has been exhibited in various forums and spaces, including the solo show "La mano que mece la pluma" at the Diego Rivera Mural Museum in the historic center of Mexico City. In addition, his work has been published in the main international design magazines, such as Communication Arts, Novum, Ètapes, Typo, and How. Phaidon Books, in their book Area_2, published in 2009, listed Meave as one of the hundred most important emerging designers in the world today.
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