Monogram Design with Your Initials
Tools and Materials
A course by James Clough , Calligraphy Artist
About the video: Tools and Materials
Overview
“In this lesson I will show you the tools and materials useful for this course.”
In this video lesson James Clough addresses the topic: Tools and Materials, 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
“Tools and materials For the final project of this course, I will show you a method for designing a monogram to be applied to a business card. During the course, I will draw a monogram for myself, then working on the two letters J and C. I will work with pencil and paper splashing out a lot of different ideas. Then, after a break, I'll come back and review the work I've done with the sketches with fresher and no longer obsessed eyes. I will choose an idea which seems to me to have more potential to develop for a final monogram. Once my monogram is finished, i will develop my business card wi...”
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Course summary for: Monogram Design with Your Initials
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Calligraphy & Typography -
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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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