From the Lettering to the Font
Basic forms and interior space
A course by Type-Ø-Tones , Typography designers
About the video: Basic forms and interior space
Overview
“We will see how the basic geometric shapes (square, circle and triangle) are integrated into the vertical metric and are arranged between them to generate the personality of a typographic system. We also offer a note about the parts that are NOT drawn -or drawn by default, if you prefer- that are the interiors of the characters and the relationships between form and counter form. ”
In this video lesson Type-Ø-Tones addresses the topic: Basic forms and interior space, 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 see the basic forms. As you can see in this image, we have a square, a circle and a triangle. They are basic forms or primitives, too. Well, it's a design concept that not only serves to design typos, it's useful for many things and it's this idea of the harmony of the forms. We work some letters that are more square, as an "n", some letters that are more circular as "o" and some letters more triangular as it could be a "v", but they are all in harmony, at the level of let's say dimensions, as in this case these forms. Well when we work on typography h...”
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Course summary for: From the Lettering to the Font
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Category
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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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