Tag Archive | "typography"

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

Monday, November 17, 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 [...]

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

Wednesday, October 29, 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. [...]

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How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D

Monday, October 27, 2008

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How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: In this tutorial I will walk through the steps I used to create this illustration to bring alive the word “collide.” While you may not find yourself needing to recreate the word “collide,” I hope you will find useful the techniques I will cover: [...]

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

Thursday, October 16, 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 [...]

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Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

Monday, October 13, 2008

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Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hello, my name is Alex Beltechi, a designer that is currently studying in college and working in the print media realm. I would love to explain my vast experience and overwhelming knowledge to you, but due to the fact that I have no such qualities, I’ll stick to sharing [...]

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An Arsenal First!

Friday, July 18, 2008

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An Arsenal First!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: If you’ve hopped over to the Go Media Arsenal lately you might have noticed quite a few recent updates. In the last two weeks we’ve released a new motion pack and two new fonts. I’m pretty excited that the new graffiti font [...]

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Computer Arts Projects: Typography Feature for Jeff Finley

Saturday, June 21, 2008

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Computer Arts Projects: Typography Feature for Jeff Finley

In addition to the feature in Advanced Photoshop this month, I was blessed with a feature in Computer Arts Projects. Issue #111 Typography to be exact. They highlighted some of my 3D typography and ornate lettering techniques. Here are some photos. You can buy this magazine at any major book store. [...]

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Moleskine: The Artists’ Notebook

Thursday, June 19, 2008

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Moleskine: The Artists’ Notebook

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’ve often felt product lust over those shiny Moleskine notebooks on the shelf in Borders, and this is why: guys like Jeff Finley use ‘em – they must be good. As I was flipping through the Moleskine that sits on Jeff’s desk [...]

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Funkrush Shirt printed and up for sale

Saturday, May 17, 2008

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Funkrush Shirt printed and up for sale

Remember the Funkrush Tee that I designed a while back? Maybe a year ago? Well, they finally printed it and you can now purchase it from the Funkrush Store. The shirts ship from the UK.

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