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Rule Seven: Composition: putting it all together.

14. April 2009

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Part Seven of Seven Easy Principles to Becoming a Master Designer. Ok Folks, This is it; part seven of seven. I’ve hopefully convinced you to limit your use of colors and fonts, taught you to provide sufficient contrast, suggested that you properly space your elements and let you in [...]

How to Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches

5. December 2008

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How to Design a Font: {Part 4} Finishing Touches

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Well this is it – the final part in my series “How to Design a Font”! Be sure to catch up with the previous articles in the series: Part 1: Get inspired Part 2: Draw up a Storm! and Part 3: Make it Digital Great now we’re finally into [...]

How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!

17. November 2008

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How to Design a Font: {Part 3} Make it Digital!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The Grid Now that you have your font pretty well figured out it’s time to get into the computer. First things first, setting up Illustrator. I like to first turn on the grid. This is the easiest way to transfer your font from the grid paper to the computer. [...]

How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!

29. October 2008

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How To Design a Font: {Part2} Draw Up A Storm!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Terminology Before we get into the meat of this tutorial I want to give you a crash course in font terminology. I know it’s not exactly the most exciting thing but I seriously think it’s good for you to know this before we get too far. Sans serif: A [...]

How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!

16. October 2008

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How to Design A Font: {Part 1} Get Inspired!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I haven’t written a blog post in a while so I thought it was time I jumped right in and did a tutorial series about fonts. There will be three more tutorials that will follow this one. Their forces combined will account for pretty much everything I know of [...]

12 Sources of Inspiration for Creating Your Own Lettering or Typeface Designs

19. March 2008

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12 Sources of Inspiration for Creating Your Own Lettering or Typeface Designs

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This is an article written by guest author Sean Hodge from AiBURN, a blog about design, creativity, inspiration, tutorials, and vector graphics. Introduction Lettering and Typeface design is a creative endeavor that requires constant sources of motivation, influence, and inspiration. If you dream of painstakingly designing the next amazing [...]

Katie’s 5 Tips for Typeface Development

17. March 2008

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Some of you may know, I’m a typography nut and I have created a few fonts for Go Media’s Arsenal. This article is little precursor to a more extensive article that we’ll submit later on about finding inspiration for typeface and font development. As a designer I have found [...]

Ornate Lettering Process

1. November 2007

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’m going to show you the process as to how I do my ornate lettering. This is a new design I did for Stone Sour that utilized this technique. Now right off the bat, this is not a step by step tutorial. It’s more of a look behind the [...]

Old School Type – Line Gradients

11. September 2007

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: One of our readers suggested we write a tutorial explaining how to do this cool text effect. On the Dragonforce logo above, the basis of my typography was sketched on paper first and then vectored in Illustrator using the Pen Tool. The process for creating the base logo is [...]