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In a recent two-day Gestalten workshop, participants worked closely with Jessica Hische (a letterer, illustrator, and crazy cat lady known for her silly side projects and occasional foul mouth, as she jokingly describes herself) to develop a full vector alphabet and learn about drawing type in a short amount of time. Hische has been named a Forbes Magazine “30 under 30” in art and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of Print Magazine’s “New Visual Artists”. Gestalten.tv took the chance of a very brief break during the workshop to let Jessica talk us through some of the pros and cons of the letters B/E/R/L/I/N.
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Here you can see the amazing process of how the people of LoSiento buid up this amazing 4D typeface.
Here you can see the amazing process of how the people of LoSiento built this amazing 4D typeface.
Tracing the rounded lines of cursive on worksheets was a fundamental part of exercise in grade school--one that may soon become obsolete, as pen and paper are replaced by keyboards and screens. Job Wouters (a.k.a. Letman), a graphic designer based in Amsterdam, is on a one-man mission to sustain the dying medium of hand lettering, churning out meticulously executed forms that pay tribute to the versatility and beauty of good penmanship.
read more over at fastcodesign.com
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Lettering: A Reference Manual of Techniques by Andrew Haslam
by R27 CREATIVELAB on Friday, 30 September 2011
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