Orthotypography for Designers
Presentation
A course by Raquel Marín Álvarez , Graphic designer
Joined January 2015
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“In this lesson I tell you who I am, what my career has been and how I ended up writing a book about orthotypography.”
In this video lesson Raquel Marín Álvarez addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Orthotypography for Designers. Learn in great detail the typographical standards for the characters you design with.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hello, good first thing welcome to the Domestika of typography. Where are you going to see that this is not a tostón for nothing. That nothing is understood. No, no. These are very practical things. What are we going to use every day? Well, my name is Raquel. And now I'm going to tell you a bit, how I ended up training in this discipline; that is quite atypical. I really, I started to study history. Well I really started and I finished my degree in history. And I worked as a documentalist in a university. But one afternoon I went to a editorial design talk, that changed my life. In this tal...”
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Course summary for: Orthotypography for Designers
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Category
Design, Writing -
Software
Adobe InDesign -
Areas
Branding & Identity, Design, Editorial Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Design

Raquel Marín Álvarez
A course by Raquel Marín Álvarez
Raquel Marín Álvarez has a degree in Humanities and graphic designer.
After studying a master's degree in advanced typography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, she began working as a designer for various studios and publishers until in 2009 she founded Lalolagráfica.
He gives lectures and workshops on typography in art schools, master's degrees, universities, foundations and in all those places where there is an interest in writing well and issuing clear graphic messages.
She is the author of the book Ortotype for designers published in 2013 by the publisher Gustavo Gili and writes articles on typography and orthotypography for various publications.
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