Benefits 101 Reasons to why you should pick up hand lettering
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Foreword
Benefits A publication designed to help you ease your way into the world of hand lettering. It introduces what hand lettering is and reveal insights to the benefits of hand lettering. In this publication, you will get to know some of the famous hand letterers around the world. Don’t go off just yet, there would be an exclusive interviews with these professionals, where they share their love, professional opinions and valuable insights into hand lettering.
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FEATURED ARTISTS INTERVIEWS ANTHONY HOS DAN LEE JACQUELINE GOH JEFF ROGERS JONATHAN BENSON KAREN DOMINGO KIKO ARDIANSJAH LISA LOREK SCOTT BIERASACK SCOTTY RUSEELL
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FEATURED ARTISTS WORKS ABED AZARYA
COLOPHON
ABIMATHA SENENG ABBEY SY ADAM VICAREL
FOREWORD
ALEX TROCHUT ALIB ISA ANDREAS GREY ASH WILLERTON BELAJAR MENULIS ROB CLARKE BHIMA BAGASKARA CHAD PATTERSON
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THE WORLD OF HAND LETTERING
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THE DECLINE
ERIK MARINOVICH GREG PAPAGRIGORIOU
Get to know what are the factors that resulted in the decline in the value of hand lettering.
EKO FITRIONO EMKEL
Understand where hand lettering came from.
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THE TROUBLE Find out what are the troubles faced by designers as they
JESSICA HISCHE
get over reliance on technology and tips to counter the
JON CONTINO
problem.
JORDAN METCALF KKADE KEN BARBER LAUREN HOM MANU CALAVERO MARTINA FLOR
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HAND LETTERING IS MAKING A COME BACK
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BENEFITS OF HAND LETTERING
OLEKSII CHEKAL RAUL ALEJANDRO
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ROB CLARKE RUDDY SETIAWAN
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SHIGEO ASAO SURAKARYA KOMUNITAS
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TOBIAS SAUL TONY DI SPINA
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Get to hear from the professionals and see what they
VALUABLE LESSONS Some great tips on Hand lettering for anyone who wish
FEATURED LETTERERS OVER THE WORLD Get to hear from the professionals and see what they have to say about hand lettering!
TYRSA ДМИТРИЙ МИРОНОВ
INTERVIEWS WITH PRACTITIONERS
to pick up hand lettering.
TANAMACHI STUDIO TOBIAS HALL
Get to understand the similarities and differences of
have to say about hand lettering!
SEB LESTER SERGE LOWRIDER
HAND LETTERING VS CALLIGRAPHY hand lettering and calligraphy.
RICARDO GONZALEZ RITCHIE RUIZ
Find out some of the untold benefits of hand lettering and how it can help mould you into a better designer!
MARTIN SCHMETZER MATEUSZ WITCAZAK
Why hand lettering is gaining it’s popularity today?
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INDEX
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HAND LETTERING IS MAKING A COMEBACK
Lettering has enjoyed a huge comeback in the recent years. Lettering has allowed many designers to come up with casual and informal styles that make things look authentic.
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BENEFITS OF HAND LETTERING
Lettering has allowed many designers to come up with casual and informal styles that make things look authentic. Get to know what they can learn through hand lettering!
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COMMONLY MISUSED TERMS IN HAND LETTERING
There is always a misunderstand between these two, hand lettering and calligraphy. Clear your doubts today!
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INTERVIEW WITH LETTERERS AROUND THE WORLD
Don’t miss out the amazing interview with these professionals, where they reveal insights on how beneficial hand lettering helps shape them into a better designer!
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GET TO KNOW THE FAMOUS LETTERERS
Lack of inspiration for hand lettering or you would like to pick up hand lettering? Take a look at some of the great letterers around the world.
Welcome to the world of
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Hand Lettering Hand lettering goes back millenniums before the printing press ever arrived on the scene. Modern letters have Egyptian hieroglyphics as a form of communication back in 3200BC. In the earlier times, when the written language is in the development era, many talented individuals, lettering artists, forged the cornerstones of lettering design. Artists began teaching letters as an art form. This practice was especially predominant across Europe, where the arts rose to higher levels of reverence. Writing did not start with the Roman alphabet, but for practical purposes. Roman capitals are the beginning of our modern alphabet. Some of the significant predecessors are: Egyptian Hieratic 3000 BC Phoenician 1000 BC Greek 600 BC. Some of the other forms of writing letters are such as: Roman, Charlemagne, Gothic, Bookhand, Italic Script, Copperplate.
Lettering is fun and it’s really satisfying. At the end of the day, my back hurts and my hands are a little raw, but it feels good to have done something physical.
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Dana Tanacmachi
Hand lettered books done by Tanamachi Studio. Follow @dana_tanamachi to see more of their works. Web: tanamachistudio.com
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The Decline
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in the value of hand lettering In the past, these craftsmen produced beautiful precise lettering by hand, a job that was only fit for a small group of practitioners. Over the years however, technology has made the practice of hand lettering obsolete as the world moves towards the digital realm.
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Evernote done by Tanamachi Studioa boutique graphic design studio specializing in hand-lettering & custom typography.
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FACTORS
CONTRIBUTED TO THE DECLINE OF HAND LETTERING
Today, designing a typeface is much easier, anyone with a computer can become a designer. Softwares such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Fontographer and many others, provide designers with endless possibilities of modifying a type. This has significantly reduces the value of hand lettering as technology alienates the meticulous process of manually crafting these beautiful letter forms. Many designers today can simply distort types that are readily made available to them. This places typography at riskto allow those who do not understand the fundamentals of typography to practice such a craft and violate basic principles, resulting in “grossly misproportioned letter forms�. This inevitably devalues hand lettering and the prestigious status it once had.
Technology advancements Over the last decade, rapid development of technology
on the opportunity to learn and understand the little
has influenced the practice of hand lettering. Personal
nuances of typography. Computer software has preset
computers and software for designing fonts have main
everything from tracking to kerning and leading. This
streamed and changed the process of hand lettering.
has produced a mentality within designers’ nowadays
Hand lettering, a meticulous process of crafting letter
that the computer can do anything and everything
forms from scratch, has slowly become a seemingly
for you. This inevitably causes hand lettering to be
easy and quick exercise in style whereby anyone who
neglected by designer as they no longer see the need
has access to a computer can do. Today there is a vast
to go through a time consuming and tedious process of
array of fonts available online, free for anyone to access.
hand drawn lettering.
Designers can simply download and stretch typefaces into different point sizes, creating a whole new font. The reliance on technology may facilitate quick and easy results but this has caused designers to miss out
CONTRIBUTED TO THE DECLINE OF HAND LETTERING
Demands in the market In the past, before technology was introduced to the
printing books, took days and was costly. Furthermore,
world, illuminated manuscripts were hand produced by
there was an insufficient quantity of the animal’s skin
individual scribe or monk. Illumination was simply used
for the mass production. Printing technology such as
on word stemming to decorate books, usually found
the Gutenberg’s press, LinoType and MonoType not
in the drop caps of each passage. These illuminated
only saved cost, but also production time. The peak in
manuscripts done by hand and many were used for
mass production had phased out traditional methods of
many religious purposes. Overtime, the demand of hand
hand lettering as many clients in the market demanded
produced books raised as people were getting more and
a more efficient job. This is because hand lettering was
more educated. Literacy rates peaked within countries
time consuming and tedious as compared to generating
and so was the demand for books. However, this form
typefaces and compositions on computer screens.
of production; crafting letter forms one at a time by hand, was time-consuming. The process of making vellum, which was the material used for some early
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You cannot draw on a computer the way you can draw directly with a pen, using traditional tools.
Tony Di Spina, Hand lettering artist
Hand to Type, Scripts, Hand-Lettering and Calligraphy - J.Middendorp, H.Hellige, R.Klanten, 2012.
CONTRIBUTED TO THE DECLINE OF HAND LETTERING
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Twenty years ago, when I was at college, there were generally a greater emphasis on the ability to draw and render rather than simply operate machinery.
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Design Education As technology unquestionably changes the way
Today, hand lettering is slowly becoming irrelevant
designers learn and experience design, designers are no
because of technology as design education places
longer exposed to the idea crafting of letters with their
more emphasis on graphic design, which caused it to
hands. Schools no longer place emphasis on hands on
be slowly subsumed. Designers in the past were taught
procedures in hand lettering. Many designers who came
with different tools, giving them a greater scope to do
from traditional design schools could not believe how
many different things. However, students brought up in
much design education has changed in recent years for
the digital age, would usually start designing straight off
example, the lack of emphasis on crafting procedures.
their screens instead of spending their time drawing out
Paul Green shares his experience in design education,
letter forms and type characters with their hands. This has caused them to miss out on the understanding and values involved in hand lettering.
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OVER RELIANCE ON TECHNOLOGY
The Trouble faced by designers
Today, many young designers seem to be designing only to the level their knowledge of using a computer allows them to go. They are unable to visually think or design past their computer skill set. The importance of designing with a pencil and paper is long gone. In the past, the pre-computer era, everything was designed with pencil and paper but today, it may seem like an old -fashion way of doing working. Listen to what hand letters advice on how traditional tools can help shape you into a more fluent designer.
What they didn’t teach you in design school - Phil Cleaver, 2014.
TACKLE THE PROBLEM
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The best design software is between your ears,
and paper as it a lot quickly and easy to access.
so keep it upgraded by looking, reading, and
chasing the raw ideas, not finished visual. Only after
Espeically in the early stages. I have a strong urge
questioning, and learn to think with a pencil in your
discussing the concept and looked at the pencil
to experiment and try out new techniques or styles
hand.
roughs. We will then work them up on a computer.
that could potentially fail.
A computer will not give you an idea or concept,
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Even though a sketch may begin with brush or pen, I prefer finalising details with good old pencil and paper. This allow greater flexibility while sorting out general characteristics like style, weight, contrast, proportion and so on.
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Ken Barber
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When working with physical tools, you are teaching
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The use of traditonal tools when it comes to
your eye to see where you’re going, and train your
designing letter forms, helps train the eyes to work
hand to do it exactly how you’ve imagined. They
with typography in general and understand the
allow you to train yourself on spacing, dimensions,
principles in letter design, which is a great tool for
regularity, writing the exact same letters over and
the creative work of a graphic designer.
over again- in short, the more you’re aware of what you’re doing.
Martina Flor
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As an experiment just try to complete a design
Luca Barcellona
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without a computer- I will guarantee you will learn
Never forget your pencil, learn to read, think, listen,
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see and draw.
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Phil Cleaver
Viv Thomas
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computers.
Andy Gossett
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gone down due to designers relying too much on
Gemma O Brien
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and I believe that the standard of a lot of design has
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I found it a lot easier to experiment with pen
logotypes, it is faster to use a pencil and paper. I am
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When you are doing first roughs for symbols or
LISTEN TO WHAT HAND LETTERERS GOT TO SAY
Richard Ward
Benefits
Hand Lettering
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The beauty of writing by hand reminds us just how alive words and letters can be.
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HELLO HAND LETTERING
is making a comeback
Cristina Vanko
Now that digital has largely taken over the world’s communications, pen and paper is nearly obsolete in schools, and putting pen to paper is rare experience for a large experience for a large part of the planetso, what hope does hand writing have left? In a world dominated by technology, where letters could be created by coding or just by simple pulling of anchor points. Can these beautiful letters made by hand still have their place in this century? In this book features many practitioners in the field who strongly believe in the craft of hand lettering is still relevant and in fact making a come back today. Hand lettering is for everyone, especially designers. In this publication, it reveals insights on the benefits of hand lettering. It is not necessary for a designer to be a typographer but hand lettering has its potential to help shape a better learner, thinker and a better designer.
Chalk lettering done by Tanamachi Studio. Follow @dana_tanamachi to see more of their works. Web: tanamachistudio.com
< Dana Tanacmachi interview with the greatdiscontent.
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There’s a huge satisfaction that comes from physically working with your hands and having created something when you’re done. Exactly. There are some people who are just born to design on the computer and they’re amazing masters of the pen tool, but that’s just not me. If I’m honest, I consider it to be one of my limitations. It’s probably why I leaned so heavily towards hand-lettering—it was easier than clicking around in Illustrator all day. Sometimes your limitations can be a launching pad into an unexpected story.
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The Benefits
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of hand lettering
Hand lettering yields tangible benefits. Some of these benefits are increased knowledge on typography, embolden of designers to experiment and be creative when designing. It also imparts good values in designers like alertness and patience.
Hand lettering mural done by Ben Johnston. Follow @benjohnston25 to see more of his works. Web: benjohnston.ca
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REASONS WHY ONE SHOULD LOVE LETTERING
Hand lettering pushes the potential language as a visual medium, pushing language to its limits so that seeing and reading become the same action and text & image become one unified expression.
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Alex Trochut
Hand lettering can be used as a powerful vehicle to transmit ideas. The function of text is to communicate a message so that it effectively conveys and reinforces the meaning. Hand lettering allow designers to understand how type works hand in hand with one another. Through hand lettering it helps designer to develop a sense of typographic sensitivity towards their works, such as, understanding what are the different elements that should work harmoniously together to create the best and most effective layout. Hand lettering also allows designer to amplify the effectiveness of words and the overall visual quality if a piece of design. Of course as designers, we all seek for the most effective way to communicate and with hand lettering it allows tailor made designs for particular situations, setting the tone whereby it is unique and it speaks for itself. Here are some of the benefits of hand lettering that many designers do not know!
Hand lettering done by Ian Barnard. Follow @ianbarnard to see more of his works. Web: ianbarnard.net
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BENEFITS
Hand lettering, a meticulous process of crafting letter forms from scratch, has slowly become a seemingly easy and quick exercise in style whereby anyone who has access to a computer can do. Today there is a vast array of fonts available online, free for anyone to access. Designers can simply download and stretch typefaces into different point sizes, creating a whole new font. The reliance on technology may facilitate quick and easy results but this has caused designers to miss out on the opportunity to learn and understand the little nuances of typography. Computer software has preset everything from tracking to kerning and leading. This has produced a mentality within designersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nowadays that the computer can do anything and everything for you. This inevitably causes hand lettering to be neglected by designers as they no longer see the need to go through a time consuming and tedious process of hand drawn lettering. Today, hand lettering is slowly becoming irrelevant because of technology as design education places more emphasis on graphic design, which caused it to be slowly subsumed. Designers in the past were taught with different tools, giving them a greater scope to do many different things However, students brought up in the digital age, would usually start designing straight off their screens instead of spending their time drawing out letter forms and type characters with their hands. This has caused them to miss out on the understanding and values involved in hand lettering.
REASONS WHY ONE SHOULD LOVE LETTERING
REASONS WHY ONE SHOULD LOVE LETTERING
What can you learn from hand lettering? Learning Through Mistakes No matter how skilled a labourer, mistakes will always be made as traditional tools of craft are less forgiving than digital tools. This is classified as a “workmanship of risk” according to David Pye, a craftsman as he deems the journey towards the final artwork is constantly evolving. This risk Pye refers to is the uncertainty of errors or possibilities that require one to start over again. Craft making encourages designers to cultivate the habit of using their hands to create and allow them to learn from their mistakes. On the contrary, software provides designers with the easy solution of “delete” that reduces learning from mistakes. Furthermore, craft also helps shape a designer by inculcating values such as focus, patience and perseverance.
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BENEFITS
REASONS WHY ONE SHOULD LOVE LETTERING
Learning through Craft with our hands allow one to
to see what really matters to them.
interact with materials and understand
With the aid of technology, many
them through making. For instance if
designers have blatantly disregarded
a designer engages his or her tools,
their design processes and have only
it fomrs a relationship with them
the end result in mind. The design
by understanding how each tool
processes of sketching and crafting is
works. Through that engagement
now deemed unnecessary as many of
with the tools, it creates a whole new
these designers would start straight
experience and connection between
off, designing on screen. In order to
mind and body. This experience allows
be a good designer, we got to see how
the designer to feel connected to what
things are done in order to understand
they are making, allowing the mind
and make it work. Luca Barcellona
take control of what they are making,
mentioned,
learning and constantly building on
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their existing knowledge. Similarly to the meticulous replication of tracing types, it is a practice that takes a lot
video of Teaching to see, “It is
You have to teach your eye to see where you’re going, and train your hand to do it exactly how you’ve imagined.
astonishing how sensitive our eyes
Middendorp, Hellige and Klanten, 2012
of patience and constant refinement on the same letter. While making contributes to the learning process of a designer, our eyes play a huge part in it as well. Inge Druckrey mentioned in her
are.” However designers today fail
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REASONS WHY ONE SHOULD LOVE LETTERING
Seeing & Making Designers must be more aware of what
many designers today often
they are doing, such as observing and
overlook. Donald Young mentioned
look at how things are done. According
the importance of learning how to
to Inge Druckrey, one cannot measure
see and draw is crucial in creating
what they have drawn and deem it
proportional forms. It helps heightens
identical. This is because the things
one's awareness to everything and
we draw are often complicated and
attention to little details. Young also
this makes the things we draw difficult
believes that the brain and muscle
to measure. This practice not only
are constantly working together to
just teaches our eyes to see but to
create something, which is way beyond
learn with our eyes known as “optical
drawing. This quote by Donald, says
accuracy”. Hence this is why we learn
it perfectly, “Every mark made is
to do by our eyes. She adds on saying,
purposefully.”
the entire process of working on the same piece over and over again, is not just mindless copying and producing the same artwork. It is not just observing and thinking through what you have learnt but when you actually watch someone in action, of creating letterforms, “the rhythm of writing that is not just muscle memory. It’s rhythmic memory.” (Inge Druckrey: Teaching to see, 2012) Crafting is not just designing with our hands. It is to gain a deeper understanding of a form at a sensory level, which
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WHAT HAND LETTERING TEACHES YOU
Designers use text often to push forth an idea It is a powerful tool to communication a message effectively. Hand lettering allow designer to create letters by hand, making designs customizable to any situation. Creating letters by hand allows graphic artists to integrate imagery and text, making design and illustration into fluidly integrated pieces.
WHAT HAND LETTERING TEACHES YOU?
Hand lettering can emulate existing typefaces or derive from the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own drawing or writing style. Designers create lettering by hand and sometimes with the aid of software, often combining diverse techniques to create a unique piece.
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Commonly misused terms in
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Hand Lettering Calligraphy, which translates to â&#x20AC;&#x153;beautiful writing,â&#x20AC;? was the original way books were printed 500 years before commercialization and printing presses. Reading materials were hand lettered with specialty pens, paper and ink, using creative lettering is popular with people who keep up the art of lettering and designers who are interested in artistic text. Lettering on the other hand, is not much of writing, but it is an art that involves the making of letters by hand. Instead of using an existing typeface that a type designer previously created, hand styles. Centuries later, the practice of calligraphy still finds popularity with people who utilizes their hands, partnered with the creativity from each individual. This allow the designer to come up many unique and one of the kind lettering. These two groups might sound similar to one another and commonly misunderstood between designers. So what are the similarities and differences between these two? Here are some tips to help you find your way around this.
Hand lettering is the art of drawing letters is how letters interact with one another is very experimental is imperfect and quirky allow customization â&#x20AC;&#x201C; unique, one of the kind stretches the rules of design
Calligraphy is the art of writing letters is about balanced, identical letter forms is about muscle memory â&#x20AC;&#x201C; repetition is the art of expressing text beautifully trains the hands to utilize different kinds of tools, such as pen, brushes etc. is drawn directly with a few skilled strokes
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HAND LETTERING BY JON CONTINO
CALLIGRAPHY BY SHIGEO ASAO
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HAND LETTERING BY MARTINA FLOR
CALLIGRAPHY BY OLEKSII CHEKAL
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HAND LETTERING BY JORDAN METCALF
CALLIGRAPHY BY GREG PAPAGRIGORIOU
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HAND LETTERING BY ERIK MARINOVICH
CALLIGRAPHY BY SEB LESTER
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Hand Letterers Around The World
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Get up close and personal as we interview these professionals and listen to what they have to say about hand lettering.
LISA LOREK JONATHAN BENSON JACQUELINE GOH SCOTT BIERASACK KIKO ARDIANSJAH SCOTTY RUSEELL KAREN DOMINGO JEFF ROGERS DAN LEE ANTHONY HOS JONATHAN BENSON
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Lorek
Lisa USA. ART DIRECTOR. ILLUSTRATOR
Way back in high school, Lisa started doodling lyrics to songs she liked in the margins of her class notes. She was addicted to it and loved to give a look to the phrases that moved her. Later in college, she studied typography, but it was all “on screen”. It wasn’t until after college that she got back into doodling, she got addicted to it again, and started researching the lettering on Instagram. She fell in love with hand lettering ever since.
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LISA LOREK
HEAR FROM THE HAND LETTERERS
A senior designer at Global Praire. Lisa deal with anything that is type related. When Lisa is in her BFA, she had a private creative obsession with the art of hand lettering. With influences from historical typographic styles such as the elaborate details of the Rococo era, Lorek's hand lettering merges the beauty of hand cut type with traditional illustration.
Why do you practice hand lettering when you have
Do you think designers understand hand lettering in
the option of working it straight off on a computer?
order to design better?
After working 9-10 hours a day in front of a screen,
I think it helps you expand your skill set for sure. I
I feel the need to keep creating art after work, but
think designers letter because it’s actually super fun!
my eyes can’t handle it anymore. I love moving away
But there’s also something about the humanistic
from the screen and creating artwork with my hands.
look to hand-lettered pieces that makes it relatable.
I still draw things other than letters and words,
When I look at lettering, it makes me want to pick up
but lettering is my current obsession. I feel more
a pen and start drawing.
comfortable and more likely to be adventurous when lettering by using a pen on paper rather than the
How does hand lettering help you to become
trackpad on my laptop.
a better designer?
How do you think hand lettering help you to
It helps you build a better composition. I find that
understand more about type?
laying out lyrics and quotes also helps me when laying out typography in advertisements and
You definitely pay attention to all the little details
marketing materials. It also helps you pair fonts and
that make typefaces different from one another
choose them for whichever mood you are going for.
when you are drawing all of them out. What qualities do you think hand lettering builds, and why? Attention to detail and building a composition. It also helps refine illustration skills.
SAY HELLO TO LISA LOREK. Follow @lisalorek to see more of her works. Web: behance.net/lisalorek
HAND LETTERING PROJECTS
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Working with your hands is just so much better than creating something computer generated.
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Benson
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Jonathan used to work for hobby lobby stories, inc in their art/creative department as a graphic designer.
USA. GRAPHIC DESIGNER. WEB DESIGNER
Hand lettering was required so he started lettering out of necessity but it grew into a passion. The lettering community on Instagram was and continues to be my biggest source of inspiration and motivation.
JONATHAN BENSON
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HEAR FROM THE HAND LETTERERS
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Lettering by hand forces you to be intimately familiar with letter forms.
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Why do you practice hand lettering when you have
How does hand lettering help you to become a
the option of working it straight off on a computer?
better designer?
Lettering by hand gives you unparalleled control
It teaches me that I always have so much to learn
and ability to express that the computer simply
and so I want to get better with practice. Also seeing
can’t match. I will use the computer to clean up
the endless amount of other artists’ unique designs
and render a design if I feel it’s strong enough but
makes me realize there are infinite ways to approach
mostly I love my design on paper. There is room to
the same letters. It is important to get out of your
interpret sketched lines on paper but digital letters
comfort zone and try a new type style you never
are so sterile and unforgiving. There is so much more
have before and learn from another artist. Hand
emotion and intent in hand rendering letters than
lettering teaches me that there is always room to
digital.
grow as a designer.
How do you think hand lettering help you to
What qualities do you think hand lettering builds?
understand more about type? Attention to detail, patience, dedication to a project Lettering by hand forces you to be intimately familiar
(you can easily tell which lettering projects only got
with letterforms. You have to feel the subtly of a
a couple sketches and those whose details were
curve flow from your hand in order to appreciate it.
thought over meticulously), good planning habits,
It’s just like learning to draw the human form. When
and the awareness to always be searching for
you slow down and study all the little details you
inspiration.
realized how complex and difficult to replicate your subject is. Do you think designers understand hand lettering in order to design better? Yes. Hand lettering makes you understand kerning, leading, tracking, white space, hierarchy, and the overall planning process of design better. You have to sketch, experiment, try and fail at lettering to get better at it and design is exactly the same.
SAY HELLO TO JONATHAN BENSON. Follow @jonbensondesigns to see more of his works. Web: behance.net/jonbensondesigns
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Jacqueline SINGAPORE. LETTERPRESS. HAND LETTERER. I LLUSTRATOR
She was inspired by the book “Sign Painters” and some hand lettered signs she saw during her travels. It was after she graduated from Lasalle that she started to practice her hand lettering skills.
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JACQUELINE GOH
HEAR FROM THE HAND LETTERERS
Jac owns a studio call the Fingersmith Letterpress, a quirky letterpress printing company based in Singapore. They do custom designs specializing in hand lettering and illustrations.
Why do you practice hand lettering when you have
Do you think designers understand hand lettering in
the option of working it straight off on a computer?
order to design better?
I like how a hand lettered work is not as polished
I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think designers have to necessarily
as a font picked off the computer. Besides, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still
understand hand lettering to create great designs
pretty old school and I would avoid working with
but a basic understanding of typography will help
the computer as much as I can. Working with pen
them to choose a font that would be more suitable
and paper is very therapeutic and I love the sound a
for their designs.
pencil makes when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m drawing on paper. How does hand lettering help you to become a How do you think hand lettering help you to
better designer?
understand more about type? It helps me visualise the kind of type I would pair Observing other hand lettered works has helped me
with a certain illustration/ design without having to
understand letter forms better. I learnt that there are
scroll through my font library on the computer.
still basic rules governing the anatomy of a type but I see them as guidelines so as not to restrict myself
What qualities do you think hand lettering builds?
during the design process. Hand lettering builds patience and perseverance. It helps makes me want to improve yourself with every new work I do.
SAY HELLO TO JACQUELINE GOH. Follow @thefingersmithletterpress to see more of her works. Web: thefingersmithletterpress.com
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Scott is an Illustrator and Deobsession with typography. He can take care of your logo, branding, designer with a minor editorial, spot illustration, packaging, poster and many other design needs. USA. ILLUSTRATOR. DESIGNER. LETTERER
Scott got into hand lettring about 4 years ago when he first found out about Instagram. Instead of taking photos of my food, Starbucks, and photos of himself, he decided to use Instagram as a portfolio of sorts. He gave myself a selfinitiated project where he forced himself to draw a new piece of lettering every single day for an entire year.
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Working with your hands is just so much better than creating something computer generated.
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Why do you practice hand lettering when you have
Do you think designers understand hand lettering in
the option of working it straight of on a computer?
order to design better?
I took art class from 1st grade up until I graduated
I hope so! I’ve got to quote the master, Doyald
from High School. With that said, drawing, painting,
Young on this one, he said, “If you improve your
sculpting, etc. has always come a bit more natural
drawing skills, you will become a better designer.
than working on a computer. Working with your
Period.” Doyald couldn’t have said it better. I believe
hands is just so much better than creating something
that quote to be 100% true because I’ve seen that
computer generated. There’s definitely a time and
progression and watched my work get better as I’ve
place for both, but seeing the finished product that
grown over the years.
you made with your hands is just so much more gratifying, I think.
How does hand lettering help you to become a better designer?
How do you think hand lettering help you to understand more about type?
Well, I think I’ll quote Doyald again because he worded it so beautifully, “Drawing letters requires
Lettering is the build up of letterforms by way of
fidelity to proportion and attention to detail.
pencil, pen, etc. and that build up can only occur
Learning how to see to draw is crucial because the
if you understand basic letterform structure. You
ability heightens you awareness of everything you
have to understand that an O is just slightly taller
design. Nothing can replace the intimate contact
than an H when on the same baseline. You have to
of a pencil to paper, the wellspring of coordination,
balance positive and negative space. You have to
discipline and observation it releases.”
understand script connections and letterform thick to thin ratios. What I’m trying to say is that through that understanding of drawing letterforms, you are simultaneously expanding your type knowledge. I think that’s how I personally got involved with type design. It’s because lettering and type design go hand in hand.
SAY HELLO TO SCOTT BIERSACK. Follow @youbringfire to see more of his works. Web: scottbiersack.com
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Scott is a guy who is just doing what he loves. Continuously pushing myself and my comfort zone to follow my passion, inspire others, and never stop learning. Visit his page and find out more about what motivates him to be a hand letterer and how he got here today.
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Kiko INDONESIA. LETTERING DESIGNER
It was by accident in 2012, when Kiko was still working in a digital advertising agency, he liked to write/draw lettering on sticky notes when grumbling about daily work condition and put them on a wall and my cubical. He did this for almost 1 years, and become addictive with lettering until this day.
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KIKO ARDIANSJAH
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Kiko is a strong believer of creation by hand gives the impression of its own, both for the creator and the audience. For Kiko, art is a balancing routine - through art, we can channel the idealism respectively. After working for 10 years in the creative world, Kiko is not only active as workers and lettering artists but also sells art equipment in the stall Dream Shop, Tokopedia .
Why do you practice hand lettering when you have
How do you think hand lettering help you to
the option of working it straight off on a computer?
understand more about type?
When working with pencils and paper. We only
When we practice lettering, we tend to push ourself
limited by our imaginations, it’s cheap, light tools
to develop skills on many factors, not only technical,
and the good news is, we can do this anytime,
also logical. We studied how serif works on particular
anywhere, spontaneously. I’ve worked as a designer
typeface, how we set letter spacing, etc. This kind of
in advertising industry for 10 years, so I could say
practices really help us to understand type anatomy
I’m a heavy computer user. Most of the time, I
better.
used computers to research, observe, and create design. For me, it is not something to avoid, we must
Do you think designers understand hand lettering in
close enough to technology because it’s always
order to design better?
move forward. The best chance we have is to work together with computers, and I create balance with
Yes, but I think it’s very personal. Depend on
practicing hand lettering.
what kind of “design” they working on. In fact, any improvements that we accomplished so far, will be very useful to understand design better. How does hand lettering help you to become a better designer? I don’t really have the answer for this. I’m practicing hand lettering because I love it, I amazed how lettering can make a “letter” become beautiful visual form, and that will create a good design, indirectly.
SAY HELLO TO KIKO ARIANSJAH. Follow @regalisapertura to see more of his works.
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I amazed how lettering can make a “letter” become beautiful visual form, and that will create a good design, indirectly.
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Scott is a motivational coach who uses illustrative lettering to enhance my message of encouragement.
USA. ILLUSTRATIVE LETTERING ARTIST
His purpose is to serve those who struggle to find their identity and passion in life so they can take action and live out the life they desire. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something Scott have done his entire life but found he found a renewed interest and passion for it back in early 2013. He saw a resurgence of it back on Instagram and it pulled him away from his computer and reintroduced him to his passion of working with my hands again.
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Working with your hands is just so much better than creating something computer generated.
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Why do you practice hand lettering when you have
Do you think designers understand hand lettering in
the option of working it straight of on a computer?
order to design better?
Hand lettering allows the freedom to explore off
Again, I feel it’s the other way around
basic typographic principles. You get to learn the traditional rules then break them. It allows for a
How does hand lettering help you to become a
more dynamic impression upon the viewer and you
better designer?
can inject more story and emphasis behind carefully crafted hand lettering. Anyone can use a font to
In the sense of if I’m doing a custom logo, the earlier
make a quote piece or logo this doesn’t showcase as
hand lettering thumbnail sketches to lock down
much creativity and uniqueness that a hand crafted
a concept are crucial. Starting by hand allows the
piece will deliver.
you freedom to explore more ideas much more quickly and efficiently then starting directly on the
How do you think hand lettering help you to
computer. Nailing and refining a concept before
understand more about type?
taking it into the computer will allow for a much more polished, unique piece which is sure to stand
To me it was the other way around, learning the
out. Construct better understanding of composition,
fundamentals of the anatomy of type and basic
and sensitivity to forms in general.
typographic principles allowed me to become a better hand lettering artist. When you don’t understand the basic of typography, your hand lettering will look like it’s trying to be good but there’s something not quite right with it. Most people will disguise their lack of knowledge with multiple styles of letters with lots of details. You can see right through it because I was this person and I was guilty of covering up for where I lacked knowledge.
SAY HELLO TO SCOTTY RUSSEL. Follow @Prspctv_cllctv to see more of his works. Web: perspective-collective.com
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Well-made and engaging letter forms capture the imagination; people never tired of seeing them expressed in fresh and imaginative ways. This is what has always drawn me to hand-lettering.
Ken Barber, Hand lettering artist
Hand to Type, Scripts, Hand-Lettering and Calligraphy - J.Middendorp, H.Hellige, R.Klanten, 2012.
KEN BARBER
Letter forms can do more than simply deliver the content of a message: the treatment of the letters can inform the message itself. Lettering and calligraphy captures moods and express ideas simply by the way they are shaped. The reason hand lettering and calligraphy remain relevant is because they have a power to speak in ways that conventional typography cannot. I believe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough to ensure the survival. From my perspective, creating letter form represents a microcosm of design. Both lettering and typeface design aim to harmonise various elements within a specific context, not unlike graphic design, or even photography and illustration. While balancing factors such as rhythm, proportion, and contrast are vital among these related fields, the trick to drawing letters is getting a diverse group of parts to reflect similar characteristics while working together comparatively. Superficially the process may appear simplistic, but letter design demands a considerable amount of patience, craftsmanship, and attention to detail.
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Karen USA. LETTERER . ILLUSTRATOR. ACCOUNTING
A freelance artist based in Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ahu, Hawaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;i. Her love for creativity, namely lettering and illustration, have developed over the past 15 years, leading her to degrees in Art and Film from Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. She focuses on creating classic hand-written pieces for events and small businesses, and also enjoys crafting simple phrases and illustrations into decorative works of art.
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Lettering has always been in Karen’s family. Her family has great handwriting. In fact, her dad does calligraphy, and her brother is a graffiti artist. For herself, lettering began in the 90’s thanks to all the fonts in Microsoft Word. As a child, she would type out the entire alphabet in various fonts and copy each letter one by one. It’s still a learning technique She would highly recommend to interested letterers. But as an artist, she chose lettering above other forms of art because she is moved by the power of words.
Why do you practice hand lettering when you have
spacing, and form and all of these come back to the
the option of working it straight of on a computer?
“bible” of typography. Essentially what I’m saying is that typography is the plumb line that hand lettering
I treat hand lettering like a craft. There is something
measures itself against; typography is the rule book
incomparable about using your fine motor skills
that letterers either build upon or break apart.
to create, and the tangible nature of pen to paper. One could say that this answer is more internally
Do you think designers understand hand lettering in
fulfilling as an artist than for the viewer; this may
order to design better?
sound philosophical, but human error encourages imagination. When I hand letter, I feel there is more
To be honest, I think that hand lettering is very
need for me to exercise my human ability to invent
important, but it is not detrimental. A designer
and challenge myself, than to use a computer that can
by definition understands form and structure and
automatically correct my mistakes.
aesthetic. Both type and lettering become an element of that structure. However, I would not say
How do you think hand lettering help you to
that hand lettering is a necessity; hand lettering is
understand more about type?
the illustration of typography. And therefore, in order to become a better designer, I highly encourage
I would start with the reverse and say that type
understanding typography. Hand lettering, because
helps me understand hand lettering. There is a
of its drawn quality, is a bonus. Hand lettering is as
science about typography and the way a reader’s eye
important to design as drawing.
moves across the letters the kerning, the ascenders, descenders, etc. And these rules also apply to hand lettering: letterers have to think about the way the eye moves across type. Even graffiti artists (as hand letterers) have their own set of rules contrast, and
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Whether it’s proportion, movement, emphasis, harmony, rhythm - a beginner art student can learn these concepts while using letter forms.
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Hand lettering has a drawn quality to it and it is as important to design as drawing.
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How does hand lettering help you to become a
the wrong word. (Personal note: bad layouts is one of
better designer?
my lettering peeves. When I see someone emphasize a preposition? No thanks). But I digress.
As a hand letterer, I treat letterforms as shapes, and like in every art, they must also follow the
I think that a student can learn all the elements
basic principles of design balance, movement,
of design by working with lettering. Whether it’s
proportion, emphasis, etc. But because letterforms
proportion, movement, emphasis, harmony, rhythm - a
have to be recognizable (an “a” is an “a,” a “g” is a
beginner art student can learn these concepts while
“g”), doing hand lettering is like saying, “Here are
using letterforms, and then graduate to wider concepts
your parameters, now dream as much as you can
- even on canvas or in 3D design. As far as qualities,
within your parameters.” Thus, letterers have to get
I feel that it builds discipline, attention to detail, and
innovative and creative and challenge themselves to
allows for a wide exploration. Bonus, it also emphasizes
be impactful within set boundaries.
the value of readership and grammar, and brings a level of finesse to the written word.
What qualities do you think hand lettering builds, and why? So why lettering? Because letters are approachable shapes. Alphabets are taught in grade school, no matter one’s handwriting legibility. In many ways, learning lettering is combining the art of drawing, then quickly advancing into 2D design (principles of design), while simultaneously dipping into print design/graphic design. And if I may segue, one of the greatest benefits of lettering is that one learns layout. Layout is so vital - whether with lettering or with design or with fine art. The viewer’s eye is forced to follow the word map, and a horrible layout will either confuse the reader or emphasize
SAY HELLO TO KAREN DOMINGO. Follow @ks.domingo to see more of her works. Web: ksdomingo.com
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Jeff is a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator specializing in custom lettering of all shapes and sizes.
USA. DESIGNER. ILLUSTRATOR. HAND LETTERER
Stocking his Brooklyn studio with paint brushes, pens, markers, and a couple of humongous computers, he creates unique and joyful work for a wide range of smart clients. Jeff was trained as a painter from a young age but ended up getting a degree in graphic design.
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It just makes you more aware of the properties of letter forms such as weight, spacing, contrast, etc.
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Why do you practice hand lettering when you have
Do you think designers understand hand lettering in
the option of working it straight off on a computer?
order to design better?
I actually do work straight from the computer
Not necessarily. I think designers should be
sometimes. It just depends on what I am trying
comfortable with drawing/sketching in general.
to do. If I draw or paint it, it’s because I want the
Having some training in hand lettering certainly can’t
piece to express a certain quality that will help the
hurt but I don’t think it’s an essential skill to be a
message of what the piece of type is actually saying.
great designer.
There needs to be a reason to draw it by hand. As a designer and visual communicator, I think it would be
How does hand lettering help you to become a
ineffective to just automatically draw every piece of
better designer?
type by hand. That would limit my voice as a designer and especially right now, would mean that I am just
It just makes you more aware of the properties of
wanting to be part of a fad. I always want to think
letter forms such as weight, spacing, contrast, etc.
and push my work in new directions and never just
The more you are aware of what makes a piece of
do what everyone else is doing because it’s popular...
type good, the better choices you will naturally make
went on a bit of a rant there. ha.
with your design no matter how you are executing it.
How do you think hand lettering help you to
What qualities do you think hand lettering builds,
understand more about type?
and why?
Drawing any piece of design by hand whether that’s
Attention to detail and hand craft. Designers are
page layout or a piece of type helps you be free
craftspeople. Learning to craft beautiful work with
of technical limitations and allows you to express
you hand should be lesson number 1 (in my opinion).
ideas straight from your head as opposed to letting
When you take the time to create every aspect of a
the limitations of a piece of software determine the
design with your hand, you become intimately aware
forms and composition possibilities of a piece.
of the forms and what is really going on instead of lettering a machine make a bunch of decisions for you.
SAY HELLO TO JEFF ROGERS. Follow @frogers to see more of his works. Web: howdyjeff.com
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Dan USA. GRAPHIC DESIGNER. HAND LETTERER
Dan has always thought of writing — even handwriting — as drawing letters. My dad had some books on calligraphy that I used to copy as a kid, and I doodled fonts all through college. After graduating in 2014, I buckled down and started posting lettering designs online on a whim.
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Dan owns a design studio of Dan Lee. He believes sometimes the most obvious things are also true things. He is an artist who loves all forms of art and is proficient in several, mostly illustration, typography, and graphic design.
Why do you practice hand lettering when you have
Do you think designers understand hand lettering in
the option of working it straight off on a computer?
order to design better? / How does hand lettering help you to become a better designer?
I really enjoy the tactical sense of pulling a pencil (my tool of choice) across paper. I think it’s the
I think they should, for sure — with type being
exercise of creating shapes that have meaning and
as important as stated above! Like most design
hang together in infinite combinations that has the
exercises, striving to get a basic understanding of
most appeal for me.
the process will yield tangible benefits for one’s awareness of typography. It is also an exercise
How do you think hand lettering help you to
that depends on consistency, which trains a sort of
understand more about type?
discipline that can benefit all other design practice. I know it has helped me emphasize purpose and
Type is such an integral component of culture on a
priority above ‘style’ — the style tends to flow from
psychological and societal level: it’s the tool we use
a stronger drive to communicate a particular idea or
most, I think, to communicate and/or explain specific
sense.
ideas visually. As such, it needs to be legible and purposeful. Hand lettering is an exercise in creating
What qualities do you think hand lettering builds?
type in a particular form or design, and thus, to be successful, it requires a level of understanding of the
Discipline, for sure! Also: appreciation for historical
history and function of a particular typeface, font,
arts, cultural movements, and the practice of
or script. I know that for me, it makes me study the
a creative craft. I think there’s also a degree of
forms of different letters and how they’ve evolved
empathy involved, in that you are conscious of an
over time. It also makes me aware of the discipline
audience who will be reading or deciphering your
required to have a type-face look consistent.
experimental text; you are thus attempting to create a sense or feeling and have to put yourself in their shoes to accomplish a truly successful piece.
SAY HELLO TO DAN LEE. Follow @dandrawnwords to see more of his works. Web: danleedesignstudio.com
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Like most design exercises, hand lettering does the same in striving to get a basic understanding of the process will yield tangible benefits for one’s awareness of typography.
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Anthnoy NEW ZEALAND. GRAPHIC DESIGNER. LETTERER
His journey into hand lettering was one that began quite late in his studies at university. In my second to last year at AUT he was given the opportunity to take on a calligraphy course as part of his studies. He was taught the fundamentals of lettering and why letters are the way they are today which he found absolutely fascinating.
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The classes in school eventually lead him into a very type focused section of graphic design in his studies. He learned of the basics of type in all aspects of design. There on in his final year of studies he majored in typography.
Why do you practice hand lettering when you have
understand more about type as we are able to
the option of working it straight off on a computer?
practice and experiment with letter-spacing and knowing why certain letters have more space
There are many great things you can achieve through
between them than others etc.
hand lettering that you cannot on the computer. You are able to create something that feels much
Do you think designers understand lettering in order
more ‘human’ and hand crafted than you could ever
to design better?
achieve on the computer. For instance, even when it comes to selecting a ‘hand writing’ font to use in
Yes. I think if you want to be a truly effective
design it is very hard to find one that looks organic
designer then even a quick course or brief study into
and non-manufactured. I guess when dealing with
hand lettering and calligraphy would be more than
hand lettering there is an organicness that comes
beneficial. Knowing more about the reasons behind
through in the type. Each letter form can talk to
why letter forms are the way they are is crucial to
the other a lot more than it can in your standard
minimizing your classic design errors when designing
computer font. For instance in calligraphy no two
with type. All too often you end up seeing bad
letters are perfectly the same and so when a letter
typography in design and I think that with proper
may be ever so slightly larger or wider than others
training it can be avoided.
we can compensate by either making the next letter slightly skinnier or smaller, resulting in ‘balanced’
How does hand lettering help you to become a
lettering.
better designer?
How do you think hand lettering helps you to
I think hand lettering helps any designer improve
understand more about type?
their abilities as they are able to understand the reasons behind why we do things when dealing with
As I mentioned earlier, when studying calligraphy
type and it can help to avoid the many common
at university we were taught about the history of
errors we see in design these days. This can be very
letter forms and that all letters as we know them
basic things like kerning your type too tight. Often
today stem from handwriting. For instance even in
wee see type that is far too tightly kerned and
sans serif typefaces today there are subtle stroke
therefore legibility is greatly affected.
variances that stem from how letters were ‘written’ with pens. I think hand lettering also helps anyone
SAY HELLO TO ANTHONY HOS. Follow @anthonyjhos to see more of his works. Web: pinterest.com/anthonyjhos/typography/
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You are able to create something that feels much more “human” and hand crafted than you could never achieve on the computer.
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Valuable Lessons
HAND LETTERING TIPS
you can learn from hand lettering LESSON ONE: Hand lettering is really is a trial and error kind of process. You are always learning every time when you are working on something new. LESSON TWO: Try to finish every piece you start. Even if you do not like the piece towards the end, make it a habit to always finish it so you can then move on to something else. It is never a waste of time, as you are always learning what works and what does not. LESSON THREE: Try to practice new styles all the time. Even if you do not like working with it, such as intricate script lettering. You can always try out some calligraphy or big bold lettering, this will help train your eye. LESSON FOUR: Step away from the computer every now and then and do some sketching by hand, even it is really rough. Collate all these in a handy notebook and you would not know it might come in handy some day. LESSON FIVE: Do not wait until you get a new job in to try new styles or do new projects. If you have some spare time, do a tutorial or design a poster. The more work you do, the better designer you'll become. Easy.
Tips by Ben Johnston, abduzeedo.com/interview-ben-johnston.
Benefits
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Hand lettering done by Ian Barnard. Follow @ianbarnard to see more of his works. Web: ianbarnard.net
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Top Hand Letterers Around The World
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Get inspired by top hand letterers around the world.
ABED AZARYA
JORDAN METCALF
RICARDO GONZALEZ
ABIMATHA SENENG
JESSICA HISCHE
RAUL ALEJANDRO
ANDREAS GREY
KKADE
SERGE LOWRIDER
ALIB ISA
LAUREN HOM
SEB LESTER
ASH WILLERTON
MATEUSZ WITCAZAK
SURAKARYA KOMUNITAS
ADAM VICAREL
MARTIN SCHMETZER
TOBIAS HALL
ALEX TROCHUT
MANU CALAVERO
TYRSA
BHIMA BAGASKARA
MARTINA FLOR
TOBIAS SAUL
BELAJAR MENULIS
OLEKSII CHEKAL
ДМИТРИЙ МИРОНОВ
CHAD PATTERSON
RUDDY SETIAWAN
EKO FITRIONO
RITCHIE RUIZ
EMKEL
ROB CLARKE
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TOP HAND LETTERERS AROUND THE WORLD
Mateusz Witcazak @mateuszwitczakdesigns
Ash Willerton @ash_willerton
Abimatha Seneng @alfonsusabim
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Seb Lester @seblester
Ruddy Setiawan @_akarmati
Chad Patterson @_akarmati
Surakarya Komunitas Alib Isa @alib.isa
@surakarya
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Bhima Bagaskara @bhimabagaskara
Manu Calavero @calavero
Tobias Hall @tobiashall
Raul Alejandro @draw_ul
Serge Lowrider @sergelowrider
TOP HAND LETTERERS AROUND THE WORLD
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Belajar Menulis @hendryjuanda
Tyrsa @tyrsamisu
Jordan Metcalf @jordan_metcalf
Eko Fitriono @kulapanik
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TOP HAND LETTERERS AROUND THE WORLD
Rob Clarke @robclarketype
EmKel @the_emkel
Ricardo Gonzalez @itsaliving
Дмитрий Миронов @happyendnoir
TOP HAND LETTERERS AROUND THE WORLD
Abed Azarya @abedazarya
Andreas Grey @andreasgrey
Martin Schmetzer @schmetzer
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Ritchie Ruiz @ritchieruiz
Lauren Hom @homsweethom
Tobias Saul @tobiassaul
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Jessica Hische @jessicahische
Alex Trochut @trochut
Kkade @kkade_schwarzmaler
Vicarel @adamvicarel
Louise Fili @louisefili
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ALEJANDRO, RAUL, 92 @draw_ul
FINDER
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GOH, JACQUELINE, 48 - 51 @thefingersmithletterpress
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PAPAGRIGORIOU, GREG, 35 @blaqk_2
https://www.behance.net/raulalejandro
http://thefingersmithletterpress.com/
https://www.behance.net/blaqk
ARIANSJAH, KIKO, 58 - 61
GONZALEZ, RICARDO, 94
PATTERSON, CHAD, 91
@regalisapertura
@itsaliving
@pattersonvisual
http://www.itsaliving.nyc/
https://www.behance.net/pattersonvisual
ASAO, SHIGEO, 31 GREY, ANDREAS, 95
http://www.iampeth.com/artist/shigeo-asao
@andreasgrey AZARYA, ABED, 95
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ROGERS, JEFF, 74 - 77 @frogers
http://andreasgrey.com/
http://www.howdyjeff.com/
HALL, TOBIAS, 92
RUIZ, RITCHIE, 96
@tobiashall
@ritchieruiz
http://tobias-hall.co.uk/
http://www.ritchieruiz.com/
@abedazarya
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BARBER, KEN, 15, 66, 67
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@typelettering http://typeandlettering.com/
HISCHE, JESSICA, 97
RUSSEL, SCOTTY, 62 - 65
BAGASKARA, BHIMA , 92
@jessicahische
@Prspctv_cllctv
@bhimabagaskara
http://jessicahische.is/
http://perspective-collective.com/
http://behance.net/bhimabagaskara HOM, LAUREN 96
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SAUL, TOBIAS, 96 @tobiassaul
BARNARD, IAN, 21, 87
@homsweethom
@ianbarnard
http://www.homsweethom.com/
http://www.tobias-hall.co.uk/
http://www.ianbarnard.net/ HOS, ANTHONY, 82 - 85
SCHMETZER, MARTIN, 95
BENSON, JONATHAN, 44 - 47
@anthonyjhos
@schmetzer
@jonbensondesigns
http://www.pinterest.com/anthonyjhos/
http://martinschmetzer.com/
https://www.behance.net/jonbensondesigns
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BIERSACK, SCOTT, 52 - 55 @youbringfire
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JOHNSTON, BEN, 18, 19, 86, 99
@alfonsusabim
@alib.isa SETIAWAN, RUDDY, 91
http://scottbiersack.com/
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http://benjohnston.ca/
@calavero http://www.acidtango.com/ CHEKAL, OLEKSII, 33
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@_akarmati
@benjohnston25
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TANAMACHI STUDIO, 5 - 9, 17 @dana_tanamachi http://www.tanamachistudio.com/
KKADE, 97 @kkade_schwarzmaler
https://www.behance.net/PaLaMa
http://www.schwarzmaler.ch/
CLARKE, ROB, 94
KOMUNITAS, SURAKARYA, 91
@robclarketype
@surakarya
TROCHUT, ALEX, 20, 97 @trochut http://www.alextrochut.com/ TYRSA, 93
http://www.robclarke.com/ CONTINO, JON, 30
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@tyrsamisu
@dandrawnwords
http://www.tyrsa.fr/
http://www.danleedesignstudio.com/
@joncontino http://joncontino.com/
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KWOK, VERA, 5 @inthedoing http://www.verakwok.com/
DI SPINA, TONY, 12
@seblester
http://tonydispigna.com/
http://www.seblester.com/
DOMNIGO, KAREN, 68 - 73
LOREK, LISA, 40 - 43
@ks.domingo
@lisalorek
http://www.ksdomingo.com/
https://www.behance.net/lisalorek
EMKEL, 94
LOWRIDER, SERGE, 92
@the_emkel
@sergelowrider
http://www.ashleywillerton.com/
MARINOVICH, ERIK, 36
WITCAZAK, MATEUSZ, 90
@ erikmarinovich
@mateuszwitczakdesigns
http://www.erikmarinovich.com/
http://mateuszwitczakdesigns.com/
MENULIS, BELAJAR, 93
МИРОНОВ, ДМИТРИЙ, 94 - 95
@hendryjuanda
@happyendnoir
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VICAREL, ADAM, 97 @adamvicarel http://adamvicarel.com/design/
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WILLERTON, ASH, 90 @ash_willerton
http://www.emkel.com/
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FILI, LOUISE, 96-97 @louisefili
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http://www.louisefili.com/ FITRIONO, EKO, 93
http://behance.net/happyendnoir
@kulapanik https://www.behance.net/kulapanik
METCALF, JORDAN, 34, 92, 93 @jordan_metcalf
FLOR, MARTINA, 32 @ martinaflor http://www.martinaflor.com/
http://www.jordan-metcalf.com/
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