Illustrator and graphic designer Melinda Beck combines lettering and drawing skills to create illustrated and animated typography for book covers, movie posters, and hand-lettered titles.This class is for graphic designers who want to be more experimental and illustrative with their typography, illustrators who wish to venture into hand lettering, or anyone who would like to have fun experimenting and creating with illustration and typography. Work can be created digitally or by hand. Melinda will share her experience and knowledge with you as you work on projects such as an illustrated initial cap, a book cover, and letters made from found objects. For inspiration, the class will look at various examples from the Letterform Archive’s 100,000 object collection, including illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages,19th-century movie posters, current book cover designs, and more!
Required Materials
- paper/pencil/sketching tools
- laptop + Creative Suite software