Monogram Design with Your Initials
First Drafts on Paper
A course by James Clough , Calligraphy Artist
About the video: First Drafts on Paper
Overview
“Here I'll show you how to sketch for monogram ideas. It is important to play, inventing different forms of letters. I will also work in the negative, paying particular attention to the counterforms inside and between the letters. I use a pencil, but I know you may prefer other tools, even digital ones: they are great!”
In this video lesson James Clough addresses the topic: First Drafts on Paper, 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
“First drafts on paper In this lesson, I'll show you how I work on a monogram. In the initial stage, using a 3B or 4B pencil, I write down as many ideas as possible. Some have as a reference a known form of letters, which can be calligraphic or typographic, or others may even be completely invented. The important thing is to play and look for lots of possibilities. my letters, my initials they are not that interesting. J and C are a bit boring indeed, not like an S, an R, an M or an A. which offer perhaps more possibilities. Anyway, I will try to do what I can with these two initials. To mak...”
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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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