Let's Make Letters!: Experiment, Practice, and Explore - Softcover

Gray, Kelcey

 
9781648960475: Let's Make Letters!: Experiment, Practice, and Explore

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A definitive workbook for anyone who wants to express themselves and their creativity through letter making and typography.

Let's Make Letters! goes beyond traditional lettering books with a range of projects from lettering basics for beginners to experimental and imaginative prompts that push creative limits. Experiment! Progress! And most of all, have fun. Designers, artists, scribblers, teachers, and students will build skills, confidence, and curiosity as they take up new and familiar tools to draw, depict, and distort letters in original and inventive ways.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kelcey Gray is an Austin, Texas–based graphic designer who spends her time working with words and exploring the possibilities of typography and lettering. She currently teaches design and typography at the University of Texas at Austin and can be found on Instagram @kelcey_gray.

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Let's Make Letters! is a playful and informative workbook that encourages play, creativity, and even making misaktes along the way.

The book features instructional, speculative, and approachable exercises in an effort to build reader's skills, curiosity, and confidence. Creation of handmade letters by providing readers with more than fifty exercises to create their own unique letterforms. Let's Make Letters! includes exercises that range from simple lettering basics to the expressive and experimental - with imaginative prompts and tips to go beyond the margins of the book. Fail! Make ugly letters! Have fun! Designers, artists, scribblers, teachers, and students are encouraged to take up new and familiar tools to draw, depict, and distort letters in original and inventive ways. It's up to the letterer - pen in hand - to complete the book. By enabling letterers to draw, paint, tape, cut, and gluedirectly into its pages, Let's Make Letters! will fill a void in hand-lettering publications.

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