Urban Lettering: From Drawing to Digital
Styles and finishes
A course by LetterMafia , Creative Collective
About the video: Styles and finishes
Overview
“Building on the foundation you made in the previous lesson, you will now add adjustments and details to your letters using tracing paper and pencil. For this, you will explore different forms of style in the terminations. We show you how to do it here! ”
In this video lesson LetterMafia addresses the topic: Styles and finishes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Urban Lettering: From Drawing to Digital. Explore the basics of hand lettering and the possibilities of digital tools to create compositions inspired by your favorite places.
Partial transcription of the video
“Styles and finishes In the previous lesson we worked with the flat end. Thanks to this tool we obtained different decisions with respect to weight and contrast. Now let's start working with the pencil to give more and more personality to your letters. As we can see, we have some things that we are going to have to adjust, since, obviously, this is a base and it is not something that is perfect, but we already have a preliminary idea of what we will do. Something that I can notice is that, although the flat tip it gives me a width information for the fine line and a width for the thick strok...”
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Course summary for: Urban Lettering: From Drawing to Digital
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Digital Design, Digital Lettering, Lettering
LetterMafia
A course by LetterMafia
LetterMafia is a group of designers specializing in lettering, calligraphy, and typography who take a collective approach to their projects, combining their skills to overcome challenges while exploring the rich versatility of letters. Since 2018, they've collaborated with major clients like Hermès, Spotify, Bodega Portillo, Persol, the Buenos Aires City Government, and Canal Encuentro.
In addition to working with letters, they've organized a variety of initiatives to foster learning and the exchange of knowledge: they held three workshops at the eighth Bienal de Tipografía Latinoamericana Tipos Latinos, participated in TRImarchi with an intensive lettering workshop, and hosted a comprehensive one called Letterbondi at Prints&Crafts. They also have their own podcast titled Familia Tipo.
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