Monogram Design with Your Initials
Inspirations
A course by James Clough , Calligraphy Artist
About the video: Inspirations
Overview
“Now I'm going to show you some Italian lettering works that I find particularly interesting. I will explain how they influenced my style and my vision of typography and calligraphy.”
In this video lesson James Clough addresses the topic: Inspirations, which is part of the Domestika online course: Monogram Design with Your Initials. Learn how to handcraft a monogram from a pencil sketch and apply it to a ready-to-print business card.
Partial transcription of the video
“Inspirations In this lesson, I want to show you some Italian lettering works which I found particularly fascinating and interesting. Let's start with this book I wrote and which was released in 2015. Then, a second edition was published in 2017. "Italy teaches", which concerns the historical signs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and also Italian inscriptions. Often, Italians look abroad without realizing that in their own country there are extraordinary examples, and this is especially true as regards the historical insignia of the Liberty or the nineteenth century or even from th...”
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Course summary for: Monogram Design with Your Initials
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe InDesign -
Areas
Branding & Identity, Calligraphy, Graphic Design, Logo Design
James Clough
A course by James Clough
James Clough is an English calligraphy artist who's been living and working in Milan for the past 50 years. After studying typographic design at the London College of Printing, he got his start in several publishing houses around London and Milan. In 1979, he made the leap to freelance life, specializing primarily in book cover design.
Throughout his career he has collaborated with numerous advertising agencies designing slogans, logos, and monograms. In 1991, he founded the Associazione Calligrafa Italiana (Italian Calligraphy Association) alongside a group of his peers. He currently teaches calligraphy, typography, and its history at the NABA University in Milan and writes about calligraphy and graphic arts for both Italian and international publications.
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