Illustrated Digital Lettering
Start to Create Elements
A course by Birgit Palma , Illustrator and Lettering Artist
About the video: Start to Create Elements
Overview
“We will use the theoretical part from the last lesson and execute it in our city. We will look into ways how to convert those ideas into graphic material and create simple, illustrated elements that we will use to merge with the type later on.”
In this video lesson Birgit Palma addresses the topic: Start to Create Elements, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Digital Lettering. Learn how to add depth and meaning to words using shapes, color, and volume.
Partial transcription of the video
“Start to create elements In this lesson, we'll combine the graphic ideas we just created with the modular lettering. And if needed, we're going to modify the lettering a bit. So, let's start. Let's see how we can convert those references and the ideas we had with the adjectives and the nouns into graphic material because that's what we'll need to fill the different modules. As I said before, let's take a step back, and let's try to identify the true essence behind those images to see how we could use them. Look at the first one, the compact neon lights. How could you see them? Could we use ...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Digital Lettering
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Digital Lettering, Lettering, Typography Design
Birgit Palma
A course by Birgit Palma
Birgit Palma is passionate about illustration and a self-proclaimed lettering addict, who is based in Barcelona, Spain. After studying her Master’s in Design at the University of Salzburg, Austria, she went to New York for an internship at design studio Vault49, and then to Barcelona to work at Vasava, where she worked in lettering, illustration, and design.
Today, Birgit works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, working for clients such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Adidas, Hyundai, Red Bull, Adobe, and many more.
When she’s not busy designing in her studio in Barcelona, she travels the world to teach workshops in type illustration in places like Guatemala, Germany, or Austria and has been lecturing at FH Salzburg and EINA Barcelona since 2016. Her work has been featured in Digital Design, DigitalArts, and Adobe Favs, among many more.
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