Vibrant Lettering: Find Your Style Through Pop Culture
Embellishing and Refining 2
A course by Rich Tu , Designer and Creative Director
About the video: Embellishing and Refining 2
Overview
“We'll switch now to Adobe Illustrator where I'll show you how to clean up the lines and curves of your typographic elements. For this, I'll use the "Smooth Tool", which will give a more natural look to the curves. Then, we'll go back to Photoshop. I'll look at some other options for the design of the word "Dynasty" and also see how I could add some personal touches to the whole design.”
In this video lesson Rich Tu addresses the topic: Embellishing and Refining 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Vibrant Lettering: Find Your Style Through Pop Culture. Explore your personality and the pop culture references you identify with to create a unique design that combines hand-lettering with illustration.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Embellishing and Refining Now, we're in Illustrator and I'll open that PSD I just saved, Neighborhood Dynasty Type Only. I will open that up. I will actually flatten layers to a single image and you'll see why I am doing that. It's looking clean and smooth already, but we could always get better. Now, we're in Illustrator, which is a vector-based program and our layer is rastered. I will select that layer, go to Image Trace, and click Make and Expand. Now, we've vectorized our lines. We're already pretty smooth, but I'll show you why we're doing this. I will delete some of the empty white...”
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Course summary for: Vibrant Lettering: Find Your Style Through Pop Culture
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Digital Lettering, Graphic Design, Lettering, Traditional illustration, Typography Design
Rich Tu
A course by Rich Tu
Rich is a first generation Filipino-American and award-winning artist residing in Brooklyn, NY. He is a graduate of SVA’s Illustration as Visual Essay program and takes inspiration from his heritage, pop culture, and the energy of New York City. Creatively, his focus is on emerging audiences and energetic brands that benefit from an eclectic and unique point of view.
Rich is the Group Creative Director at Jones Knowles Ritchie in New York City, and is the co-founder of the COLORFUL grant program, helping young BIPOC creatives express themselves. Rich has previously held high-profile roles in large companies like MTV Entertainment Group, and Nike Inc. His clients include Uniqlo, Mini, adidas, Coca-Cola, NorthFace, and The New York Times, among others.
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