Introduction to Designing with Letters

Overview

“Here, you will learn what format is, how to use it as a parameter to make typographic decisions and experiment the use of space creation, to expand possibilities and bring authorship to our work from the very beginning.”

In this video lesson Abraham Lule addresses the topic: Format, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Designing with Letters. Explore the concepts and principles of typography to create inspiring designs.

Partial transcription of the video

“Format In this unit, we'll learn the basic design elements such as format and composition. Once we understand this, we'll go through one of my labels and we'll see those elements in application. We'll start with format, as we as designers we need to understand first the dimensions of our canvas and this is called format. Format as we know them are our canvases and our canvases really are related to dimension. On one side we have dimensions for print, our inches, and on the other hand we have dimensions for the screen, our pixels. Once we have those defined, the possibilities are endless. Wi...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Designing with Letters

• Level: Beginner
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• 1115 students
• 5 units
• 19 lessons (2h 13m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Calligraphy & Typography, Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator

• Areas

  Branding & Identity, Typography, Typography Design, Web Design