Digital Lettering for Visual Identity

A course by Simón Londoño Sierra , Designer, illustrator and lyricist

Designer, illustrator and lyricist. Cali, Colombia.
Joined September 2019

Learn to create a brand logo using your own personality-filled letters

  • Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 99% positive reviews (110)
  • 1930 students

Learn to create a brand logo using your own personality-filled letters

The design of letters can go beyond the textual being mixed with illustration and digital techniques, and thus achieving a communicative purpose through purely visual images. This is the specialty of the designer, illustrator and lyricist Simón Londoño, who with his lyrics achieves powerful compositions of great visual richness that have led him to work with clients such as Renault, Asus or Les Fils Pernot, among others.

In this course, Simón will teach you to give identity to your brand from letters with character: from the conceptualization of this, to the final presentation of your piece for customers.

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What will you learn in this online course?

19 lessons & 21 downloads

Influences 2
6 minutes, 58 seconds
Typographic Lettering
9 minutes, 30 seconds
The lettering and the marks
8 minutes, 30 seconds
The character of the letters
6 minutes, 17 seconds
Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 99% positive reviews (110)
  • 1930 students
  • 19 lessons (2h 35m)
  • 21 additional resources (9 files)
  • Online and at your own pace
  • Available on the app
  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
  • Unlimited access forever

What is this course's project?

From your lettering you will create a logo that will represent the visual identity of your brand. From this, you will generate a whole graphic system.

Projects by course students

Who is this online course for?

Both advanced graphic designers interested in strengthening their typographic knowledge from lettering , as well as beginners interested in entering the world of lettering and creating brands absolutely from scratch.

Requirements and materials

You will need pencil, paper and a computer with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and have basic knowledge of these.


Reviews

1930 Students
110 Reviews
99% Positive ratings

Simón Londoño Sierra

Teacher Plus
Designer, illustrator and lyricist

Simón is a designer, lyricist and illustrator since 2014. He was born in Medellín, Colombia and studied Visual Design at the Javeriana University of Cali, where he is also a teacher. His work is characterized by generating images from the union between typography and illustration, with a focus on visual communication for branding and editorial design, treating the letter as an image.

His work has been shared in publications worldwide, in addition to having worked for clients such as Renault, Asus, Deezer or Les Fils Pernot, in countries such as Colombia, United States, England, France, Iran, Brazil, Australia, Colombia and Argentina .


Content

  • U1

    Introduction

    • Pleasure!
    • Influences 1
    • Influences 2
    • What will we do in the course?
  • U2

    Enlisting the practical basis

    • Typographic Lettering
    • The lettering and the marks
    • The character of the letters
    • Monogram, symbol and letter at the same time
  • U3

    From the order to the mood board

    • The order
    • Visual concept
    • Mood board
  • U4

    Our Lettering

    • Sketching
    • Vectorization and modulation 1
    • Vectorization and modulation 2
    • Monogram Creation
    • Visual games
  • U5

    Bring the letters to life

    • The lettering as an image
    • Graphic system
    • Brand Presentation
  • FP

    Final project

    • Digital lettering for a visual identity

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Digital Lettering for Visual Identity. Calligraphy, and Typography course by Simón Londoño Sierra

Digital Lettering for Visual Identity

A course by Simón Londoño Sierra
Designer, illustrator and lyricist. Cali, Colombia.
Joined September 2019
  • 99% positive reviews (110)
  • 1930 students