Virgin Handlettering Experience

My virgin hand lettering experience.

G ET H A N DSY WO R K S H O P A workshop for designers to learn, appreciate and improve their hand skills and gain a deeper understanding of creating letter forms with their hands.

THOUGHTS & BENEFITS OF HAND LETTERING

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Designed by Beatrice Cho Printed at Lotai Printing Enterprise 2022 Bukit Batok Industrail Park A, Singapore 659527 Fonts used Playfair Display Type & Lato Type Paper are from RJ Paper 115 Defu Lane 10, Singapore 539228 Paper used Maple Bright 220 gsm

Maple White 100 gsm

Get Handsy!

Hand lettering workshop for beginners

WHAT IS IT?

This workshop will give an overview of differences between calligraphy (writing) and hand lettering before moving into short exercises. These exercises explore the refresher in type structure and the creation of new forms through hand lettering.

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WHO IS IT FOR?

This workshop is designed for designers who have an existing design background.

13 FEBRUARY 2016

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Hand lettering workshop for beginners Get Handsy!

Venue: The yellow playhouse Date: 13 February 2016 Time: 10.30am - 1.30pm

THOUGHTS & BENEFITS OF HAND LETTERING

13 FEBRUARY 2016

VIRGIN EXPERIENCE

GOAL OF WORKSHOP

The ultimate goal of the workshop is to instil the participants with a passion to re-appreciate the beauty of letter forms, an understanding of hand lettering. Through this workshop experience, I hope the participants would realize the potential/benefits in hand lettering and incorporate them in their works. To allow designers to keep an open mind towards hand lettering, this workshop can help mould them into better designers.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

After completing this course, participants are expected to be able to: - demonstrate basic knowledge of type families.

- understand the difference between hand lettering & calligraphy.

- create new forms of type with hand.

- show confidence in integrating hand drawn letter forms and illustration to their works.

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JOHN LIM BA (HONS) IN GRAPHIC DESIGN. DESIGN COMMUNICATION LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, hand lettering is customizable; you’re doing anything that works particularly for project. Rather than buying a font just for the project. In a way, you’re not bound by the font itself. You can have the freedom to customizable it anyway to your liking. So why not hand lettering? On top of that, it’s one and only, that’s the key word and I am sure any client would love to hear.

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JANI ELSON FOONG BA (HONS). COMMUNICATION DESIGN GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, one of the key qualities I have learnt through hand lettering is patience. Hand lettering is about try and error. In order to progress, you have to keep working on the same piece over and over again. Making the same mistakes, redoing on the same piece over and over again and this process teaches me to be more patience.

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DAPHANE SOH BA (HONS) IN GRAPHIC DESIGN. DESIGN COMMUNICATION LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, Hand lettering has taught us to think out of the box, de-constructing and re-creating different letter forms. This entire process really spark our creativity to think out of the box. It also allows me to improve in my work in general- visual work especially. To learn things from craft, such as hand lettering, it helps you and brings you down to the technical aspect of type anatomy, understand how type is formed and how it can be used.

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AMANDA SIM BA (HONS) IN GRAPHIC DESIGN. DESIGN COMMUNICATION LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, we have learned to plan better because through the little sketches, you tend to have to plan what you want to do next. Form there, you slowly develop further. I guess what makes a good designer is constantly going back and refining details, and this is how hand lettering can help us to be a better designer.

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DAPHANE TAN BA (HONS) IN GRAPHIC DESIGN. DESIGN COMMUNICATION LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, hand lettering trains my eyes to be more sensitive towards letter forms. During my first experience in doing hand lettering, we have to break the form of the letter and retain it as well. Eventually, you kind of have to know which part of the letter form is important to retain so it will still looks like an alphabet in the end.

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CATHERINE KAI BA (HONS) IN GRAPHIC DESIGN. DESIGN COMMUNICATION LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, this experience allow me as a designer to break away from looking at the computer.

This allow us to look at things differently, as there is always so much to do on computers.

Sometimes I have the preference get on a paper and a pencil, as it’s much easier to get to these tools and get things done. On top of that, using these tools make us look into finer details while making.

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JOEL TANG BA (HONS). COMMUNICATION DESIGN GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, as an illustrator, learning hand lettering would be an advantage as it allows me to come up with different lettering styles which complements my work. Some of the troubles I faced when I want to infuse type into my work, is usually quite crappy because we just can’t find a type that would match. Now, with hand lettering, we can draw out something that could really match.

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CHIA YIN BA (HONS) IN GRAPHIC DESIGN. DESIGN COMMUNICATION LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, hand lettering allows me to gain knowledge of form and space and also improvisation of type. With hand lettering, it also can help me to present a logo many way, rather then traditional font type logos.

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CHARMAINE BA (HONS) IN GRAPHIC DESIGN. DESIGN COMMUNICATION LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, it makes me more aware, like kerning and leading. Knowing the differences between upper case and lower case. And the size different matters, when it’s place beside the next alphabet.

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MINGLI BA (HONS). COMMUNICATION DESIGN GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, hand lettering gives us a different perspective on things. When you working on a computer, you simply just type in the word. Whereas hand lettering on the other hand, allows you to do things to it. It’s more free form when you can do it on paper as compared to doing digitally. When you do it by hand, it is more fluid and has more freedom, a lot more room to explore and one wouldn’t realize through digital.

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13 FEBRUARY 2016

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TANI A SIM BA (HONS) IN GRAPHIC DESIGN. DESIGN COMMUNICATION LASALLE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, SINGAPORE

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I feel, hand lettering allows me to gain knowledge of form and space and also improvisation of type. It has also made me more aware of typography properties such as kerning ,leading, knowing the differences between upper case and lower case and how size matters. With hand lettering, it also can help me to present a logo many way, rather then traditional font type logos.

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THOUGHTS & BENEFITS OF HAND LETTERING

13 FEBRUARY 2016

TANIA’S VIRGIN EXPERIENCE

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