Benefits Magazine - 101 reasons why a Designer should pick up Hand Lettering.

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,

something.

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

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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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BENEFITS

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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

LETTERING VS CALLIGRAPHY

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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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Jonathan

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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

HAND LETTERING PROJECTS

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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 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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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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TOP HAND LETTERERS AROUND THE WORLD

Bhima Bagaskara @bhimabagaskara

Manu Calavero @calavero

Tobias Hall @tobiashall

Raul Alejandro @draw_ul

Serge Lowrider @sergelowrider

TOP HAND LETTERERS AROUND THE WORLD

GET INSPIRED

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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TOP HAND LETTERERS AROUND THE WORLD

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/

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http://www.ashleywillerton.com/

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