Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
Influences
A course by Cristóbal Henestrosa , Graphic Designer
Joined July 2019
Joined July 2019
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Before going in depth to talk about typography, I would like to share with you some of my most important influences, inside and outside of graphic design.”
In this video lesson Cristóbal Henestrosa addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting. Discover how to turn your handwriting into a unique digital typeface that adds character and personal style to your writing pieces.
Partial transcription of the video
“influences Now I will tell you a little about my influences. On the typeface designers side, my biggest influence is Robert Slimbach, who has made fabulous fountains, such as Adobe Garamond and Adobe Jenson. He co-authored Myriad as well. He also updated Trajan, which is originally from Carol Twombly, and several others. His emphasis is on rescuing sources from the past and bring them to the present, so it also has a certain connection with me or I feel a connection with that kind of work because several of my sources also obey that same process. Also in the world of typography, although no...”
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Course summary for: Typography Design: Digitize Your Handwriting
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Design, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design
Cristóbal Henestrosa
A course by Cristóbal Henestrosa
Cristóbal Henestrosa specializes in typography and book design. He has developed font families for clients such as the Fondo de Cultura Económica, Librerías Gandhi, and the Federal Government of Mexico, some of which have won awards from the Type Directors Club and have been selected for the Latin American typography biennial Tipos Latinos.
He is the author of Espinosa. Rescate de una tipografía novohispana (Mexico, Designio, 2005) and co-author of Cómo crear tipografías. Del boceto a la pantalla (Madrid, Tipo E, 2012), which has been translated into English, Polish, Portuguese, and Chinese. Since 2011 he has been teaching typography and type design at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM, as well as related subjects in diploma courses, specialties, and master's degrees in various institutions.
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