Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

Influences

A course by Thomas Jockin , Typeface Designer

100% positive reviews (16)

1,161 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Influences

Overview

“I am excited to share the influences that have shaped my professional life. Amongst them are some very significant people who I hope will inspire you as much as they have inspired me.”

In this video lesson Thomas Jockin addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace. Learn a simple yet effective research method to produce unique typefaces that communicate your vision.

Partial transcription of the video

“Influences I'm excited to share the influences that have shaped my professional life. I hope that after exploring these people I found influential in my life that you’ll be inspired by them as well. First, Joshua Darden, who's my master I learned type design from. I found that the mantra of my work was guided and inspired by what Josh offered in my training with him. One of my favorite works from Josh was his typeface Freight. It's an incredibly wide superfamily of different weights, text sizes, and optical sizes that massively approached how to think about changes in the design based on th...”

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Course summary for: Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (16)
1161 students
4 units
12 lessons (1h 41m)
8 downloads

Category
Calligraphy & Typography
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs
Areas
Digital Marketing, E-commerce, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design

Thomas Jockin

A course by Thomas Jockin

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Typeface Designer

Thomas Jockin is a typeface designer based in Long Island, New York. He first knew he wanted to pursue typeface design after attending a typography course during his time studying at Parsons School of Design. Since then, he’s gone on to produce fonts that are available on platforms like Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts.

Thomas has worked with clients including Google, Express, Footlocker, and Michael Kors. He is also the founder of TypeThursday, a global community designed to help creatives improve their letterforms through monthly events. He hosts lectures at prestigious schools in the US and is the CEO of Readable Technologies, a tool that helps to detect dyslexia in children.