Introduction to Designing with Letters

Overview

“Navigating on the software, we’ll go through the negative space to understand the composition and compose around the characters. You will edit the design based on space. The goal is to refine the composition before applying color, to use judgement based on structure rather than aesthetic.”

In this video lesson Abraham Lule addresses the topic: Negative Space, 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

“Negative Space I think the composition looks really good now. Next, we'll learn about negative space, and how that can improve our overall composition. I'll explain this part that is a bit more conceptual, with the use of the composition we just did in our previous lesson. So, I'm going to go back to Illustrator. I have the composition here, and to have a better explanation of what we'll do, I'm going to invert the colors of this composition. So far, you've seen that, we actually haven't been introducing any color, and the reason I do that, is because when working in black and white, it's e...”

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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