From the Lettering to the Font
Capital letters
A course by Type-Ø-Tones , Typography designers
About the video: Capital letters
Overview
“We will see the criteria for creating high cash and design 'AOH'. ”
In this video lesson Type-Ø-Tones addresses the topic: Capital letters, 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
“In this lesson we will see how to work capital letters From the characters that we have drawn from the bottom box To start drawing the characters from the top box What let's do is examine in some way What are the shapes we have in our low case characters And reproduce that in the high case At the level of, say, construction There are some characters, like is the case of the O, of the U What are those low box characters That we then carry those forms to the high box It is a little the way to work But, in this case, as you have seen in this little animation If we simply limit ourselves to exp...”
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Course summary for: From the Lettering to the Font
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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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