From the Lettering to the Font
Production flow
A course by Type-Ø-Tones , Typography designers
About the video: Production flow
Overview
“We will start with an orderly description, from a bird's-eye view, of the typography creation processes and that will give us an idea of the actions to be carried out. ”
In this video lesson Type-Ø-Tones addresses the topic: Production flow, which is part of the Domestika online course: From the Lettering to the Font. Create your own alphabet based on a found lettering.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] In this lesson we are going to talk about what will be the workflow of our project. To begin with, some small concepts. So the idea is that our project is going to start in a linear way, let work on the concept, on the drawing, on the metrics, the spaced and tested. Then these phases the we will explain one by one with respect to the concept. You know that what you have to work on is a project where you choose a label that is looking down the street, or a logo, or something that comes out in magazine, in base to that project you have to have clear what is the idea of the project tha...”
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Course summary for: From the Lettering to the Font
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design

Type-Ø-Tones
A course by Type-Ø-Tones
José Manuel Urós is a self-taught programmer, typographer, designer and guitarist.
Born in Barcelona in 1956, a city that loves and tries not to leave more than two weeks ... every two years.
He began his career as a programmer in the eighties and in 1988 he began to work with numerous design and advertising studios.
In 1992, he established a close relationship with Estudio Mariscal, in charge of typographical projects and editorial design. From 1993 he teaches Design and Typography courses in Eina, Elisava, ESDI and IDEP.
His with the fonts EbuScript, Matricia, Vulcano, Memimas, Ginebra, Joost, Optica, Reload, Solida, Arboria and Arbotek.
Parallel to his work as a designer, he develops a fruitful musical career playing with artists and bands such as Bootunoo, New Buildings, MCW, La Fura dels Baus, Leo Mariño, Josep Giménez, Elements, Pangrams, Adrián Morales or Unoma and Altaba / Samsó / Urós , among others. His last performances have been with the GRUS group.
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Laura Meseguer is a graphic designer, typist and freelance typeface designer. He lives and works in Barcelona and in his studio he develops editorial design projects, as well as lettering and customized typography.
In 2003 he studied the KABK Master's Degree and Media in The Hague. His final work, the Rumba typeface, is selected in 2005 by the TDC in the TypeDesign Competition. As author, she publishes the book "TypoMag, typography in magazines" and in 2012 "How to create typographies, from the sketch to the screen" of Type e, which is co-authored by Cristóbal Henestrosa and José Scaglione.
Meseguer has participated in exhibitions and conferences at an international level and teaches typography classes at schools such as Elisava and Eina.
She is the author of the alphabets such as Cortada, Frankie, Rumba, Guapa, Magasin, Lalola and Multi.
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