70s-Inspired Lettering Design
End points and open corners
A course by Santiago Arango , Graphic Designer and Lettering Artist
About the video: End points and open corners
Overview
“I am going to teach you the extreme points technique to digitize the sketch in the most efficient way and with the best aesthetic result. This technique will give you cleaner curves with fewer nodes. ”
In this video lesson Santiago Arango addresses the topic: End points and open corners, which is part of the Domestika online course: 70s-Inspired Lettering Design. Experiment with wavy lines, exaggerated proportions, and bold contrasts to create groovy letters inspired by the 70s.
Partial transcription of the video
“End points and open corners In this lesson I will show you two fundamental tricks for the good drawing of the letters. They are techniques that can be extrapolated with graphic design. that I always use when drawing pictograms or illustrations with a high level of abstraction. let's get started Let's start by bringing our image into Illustrator. I really like to layer to have organized what I'm working on. I want to show you what I consider the most important methodology when updating lyrics. This is something I learned from type design and it seems to me a very good practice in graphic des...”
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Course summary for: 70s-Inspired Lettering Design
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Digital Lettering, Graphic Design, Lettering, Typography, Typography Design
Santiago Arango
A course by Santiago Arango
Santiago Arango is a graphic designer from Medellín, Colombia, who loves letters and everything related to typography. He has more than a decade of experience as a professional designer and eight as a self-taught lettering artist.
Even before he knew how to properly write in his own language, he was fascinated by letters and their shapes, which he now considers the foundation of any visual identity, much like the bricks in a building. The bulk of his work has been centered around designing museum exhibits and cultural projects. His typeface design Oddity also won him bronze at the LAD Awards.
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- Level: Beginner
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