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Drawing Type: An Introduction to Illustrating Letterforms by Alex Fowkes

Drawing Type: An Introduction to Illustrating Letterforms Alex Fowkes ebook
Page: 208
ISBN: 9781592538980
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rockport Publishers

Jan 31, 2014 - Introduction to Magazine Cover Pages Image based, illustration based, type based and as I like to call them concept based cover pages. Fast forward about 10 years and I was obsessing over typography as a graphic design student at the Hartford Art School. At this point in my life my drawing consisted of life Early on I started drawing type and text out of necessity because I was struggling to come up with things to draw late at night — I'd hear a random song lyric or an absurd quote on the news and make it into a drawing. Jan 16, 2014 - Aside from the actual letterforms — how they are drawn and fitted together — there is a software element to fonts which allows them to install and function within computing platforms. May 14, 2014 - Are you as fascinated with hand-lettering as I am? From the beginnings of the magazine publishing till the mid 30′s of the 20th century drawn illustrations were the only way of creating the cover pages. I committed myself to posting a drawing each day on my website. Apr 11, 2013 - Alternatively, Bantjes introduced her work using non-systems or “anytime you have to create all the letters by themselves.” One particularly memorable example included a magazine cover she designed using 2,000 hand-drawn grape letterforms placed together in Photoshop, to illustrate various vineyards in Australia. We see the influence of this auricular style in Bierpfaff's letterforms but also the unmistakable baroque stylings of the grotesque. I just love letters and I am finding this new book Drawing Type: An Introduction to Illustrating Letterforms so inspiring. May 27, 2014 - According to BibliOdyssey blog, where we first learnt of the images, Bierpfaff worked as an apprentice at the Mackensen family of metalworkers in Cracow, a group “who introduced the Dutch auricular ('shell or ear-like') style of ornament into the Polish gold and silver workshops”.