Fonts: Build your Word
Understand the letter, aroma and exercise
A course by Glíglifo , Graphic designers specialized in typefaces
Design a font with the double pencil technique
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 96% positive reviews (51)
- 1151 students
About the video: Understand the letter, aroma and exercise
Overview
“Do the letters have an aroma? We explain it to you with some very simple examples, so that when we tell you what the exercise is about you understand it to the first one.”
In this video lesson Glíglifo addresses the topic: Understand the letter, aroma and exercise, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fonts: Build your Word. Design a font with the double pencil technique.
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's start the typography course. But before going a bit into the subject, and the statement of the exercise. If we would like to make a small introduction. We can say more intangible concepts. About the lyrics, that later we will help a lot when it comes to producing the exercise. Let's try to comment or touch big questions. As for example, Why make a new typeface? Yes it is important to comment that, intangible concepts ... ... like the aroma of the letter. During the course we are going to comment these concepts. Like the scent, the perfume, the DNA, of the letter. That now with some ex...”
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Course summary for: Fonts: Build your Word
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs -
Areas
Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design
Damià Rotger Miró, (Ferreries, Menorca, 1981) is a graphic designer specialized in typography design. Their types can be purchased at the independent digital foundry Ductile . Diploma in Graphic Design in Palma de Mallorca, postgraduate in Corporate Identity in Elisava (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Typography «from the creation of the Letter to the Maquetación» in Eina (Autonomous University of Barcelona). He is a professor of typography and editorial design at the Edib school in Palma de Mallorca, organizer of Glíglifo, member of Lletraferits, teaches workshops and conferences on typography and editorial design throughout Spain, is a pioneer in the teaching of typography in the Balearic Islands and is a founding partner of the Dúctil study. He has been a jury in different competitions and his works have been awarded and exhibited all over the world.
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Pedro Arilla (Ejea de los Caballeros, Zaragoza, 1984). Graphic designer specialized in typography design. Their types can be purchased in the independent digital foundry pedroarilla.com . Diploma in Graphic Design by the Higher School of Design of Aragón, author and speaker of the blog and podcast on typography Don [url=http://donserifa.com/] , member of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), Some tough guys and Lletraferits, organizer of Glíglifo, disseminator of typography through articles in blogs and magazines and workshops and conferences throughout Spain, speaker of the podcast on design Losing the forms and founding partner of Detalier estudio creativo.
- 96% positive reviews (51)
- 1151 students
- 18 lessons (2h 8m)
- 8 additional resources (5 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
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