Experimental Calligraphy: Explore Creating Letters with Handmade Tools

Course summary

• U1: Introduction

  • Presentation

  • Influences

• U2: Experimental Process, Materials and Tools and a Little Calligraphy

  • The art of the process

  • History and evolution of writing as an art

  • Materials and tools for Calligraphy 1

  • Materials and tools for Calligraphy 2

  • How to make your tools 1

  • How to make your tools 2

  • Alternative tools

  • The forms of the Latin alphabet

• U3: The Experimental Process in Practice

  • Content and Concept

  • Finding the voice of the lyrics

  • Layout and Composition

  • Backgrounds and drafts

  • Final Art 1

  • Final Art 2

• U4: Other Paths and Possibilities

  • Bringing Analog and Digital Together

  • New paths and different processes

• Final project

  • Calligraphy: Experimental Process with Handmade Tools

Gui Menga

A course by Gui Menga

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Joined January 2022

Gui Menga is a designer specializing in lettering and calligraphy, with over 15 years of experience in the field. Dedicated to the art of lettering, his professional career is marked by the creation of visual solutions that communicate beyond text, giv...