Urban Lettering: From Drawing to Digital
Decorative effects
A course by LetterMafia , Creative Collective
About the video: Decorative effects
Overview
“Let's give volume to our letters! In this lesson, you will see how to apply Adobe Illustrator with different methods to generate volume in your piece. ”
In this video lesson LetterMafia addresses the topic: Decorative effects, 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
“decorative effects With your digitized piece, you will learn in Adobe Illustrator how to generate volumes and projections. The first effect that we are going to work with is going to be with the Path tool. You are going to use that tool by selecting the object that you want to work and you are going to go to Object or Object, Path or Trace and Offset Path or Displacement of the trace. A box similar to this will appear in which you will have the distance of the trace and how are the endings going to be, which is where we are going to focus. This other parameter, I invite you to investigate i...”
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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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