Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions
Your Best Friend, Observation
A course by Scott Biersack , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Your Best Friend, Observation
Overview
“Let's start by referencing and photographing the world around us! This will consist of us taking a walk around our city, visiting vintage shops or markets, perusing your local library, etc. We shall visit all sorts of places to find quality inspiration to be a north star for your projects. At the end of this lesson, I'll gather inspiration and a list of potential quotes or phrases for drawing. ”
In this video lesson Scott Biersack addresses the topic: Your Best Friend, Observation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions. Learn the fundamentals of hand-lettering to create custom type designs that combine spacing, composition, color, and texture for a strong visual impact.
Partial transcription of the video
“Alright, with spacing under our belts in this lesson, we're going to start building our mood board and gathering a list of phrases for us to draw. Okay, before we dive into observing the world around us, there's some questions that I generally tend to ask myself as I go about this process. And one of those is going to be, Why is this connecting with What is the letter form sort of characteristic or the style that's sort of in front of my eyes? What is it doing for me? And next, are there some styles or illustrative elements that you may want to incorporate into your piece? These are all typ...”
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Course summary for: Custom Hand-Lettering for Playful Compositions
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Branding & Identity, Digital Lettering, Graphic Design, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Logo Design, Motion Graphics, Traditional illustration

Scott Biersack
A course by Scott Biersack
Scott Biersack, also known as youbringfire, is a graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer specialized in hand-lettering. Although he’s been drawing for as long as he can remember, his professional journey really kicked off in 2013 with Project365, in which he shared a new lettering creation on social media every day for a year. It was this online visibility that launched his freelance career into what it is today.
With his colorful palettes and playful style, he provides clients with custom pieces for advertising campaigns, social-media content, branding projects, animations, and much more. He is constantly exploring new mediums, methodologies, and ideas to overcome boundaries. Throughout his career, he’s collaborated with names like Adobe, Facebook, Snapchat, and Oakley as well as received awards from Communications Arts, Print Magazine, and The Type Directors Club.
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