Digital Reinterpretation of Classic Typography
Drawing with Glyphs II
A course by Oscar Guerrero Cañizares , Graphic Designer and Typography Specialist
Joined October 2014
About the video: Drawing with Glyphs II
Overview
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In this video lesson Oscar Guerrero Cañizares addresses the topic: Drawing with Glyphs II, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Reinterpretation of Classic Typography. Learn the typographic revival method to give a new digital life to ancient fonts.
Partial transcription of the video
“Let's make the letter O. drag the image, we give it size. We block it and work again. As happened in Illustrator, we use the geometric shapes of the program. Ideally it would be to adjust the width to the requirements in the analog drawing. As in Illustrator, the shape is very oval, so I set some widths on the outside. It's much more interesting to do this because it will be more accurate. As each movement of the keyboard is a unit, we can go marking in a more precise way the increments made and will be more measurable, more suitable. So, if we mark only the key on the right, will mark us o...”
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Course summary for: Digital Reinterpretation of Classic Typography
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Areas
Digital Design, Typography, Typography Design

Oscar Guerrero Cañizares
A course by Oscar Guerrero Cañizares
Colombian graphic designer and specialist in graduate typography design from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). He is currently working as an independent designer in his studio Sumotype Foundry, where he develops typography projects and lettering .
He has participated as a jury for Colombia in the Bienal Tipos Latinos 2016 and has received recognitions such as the Steel Pencil Award in Colombia (2007 and 2014) and the Communication Arts Award 2016, as well as participating in the Latinamerican Biennial of Latin Types 2014 Typography and the Iberoamerican Design Biennial 2014.
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