The art of Lettering
I often present handlettering projects here, such as Andy Luce work (who participate to the Letterpress calendar) or Kevin Cantrell. Jessica Hische is the best exemple of mastering this art of drawing letters, and she did this poster that explain what is the difference bewteen type, typography, font, lettering and calligraphy !
As she explains, Lettering is "Drawn rather than written, it's essentially an illustration of words or letters". Here come some Lettering artists and projects.
joseph alessio
Simon Walker
He also participate to the Letterpress calendar with 2 designs. Some of his other projects :
Jordan Metcalf
David Sanden
Wete Cacahuete
What are the lettering artist you like ? Send links or tweet them.
Hope you all have a great christmas time.
I love the Exploded Alphabet by Matt Stevens. I post about the first part last year, and was happy to see the complete alphabet. I ask Matt to design one sentense for the 2015 letterpress calendar, and the result is perfect for letterpress printing and for he first month of the year with this good resolution "Do it now, sometimes Later becomes Never".
Here come bigger pictures of the complete alphabet.
Get the poster here, and check Matt Stevens society6 page for more products. Get your calendar in the shop.
This is an other project by Matt :
Another great project by Matt Stevens, the man behind the The Exploded Alphabet !
Joe White
When I had the idea of inviting designers to work with me on the 2015 edition of the letterpress calendar, Joe White is one ofthe first name I had in mind. I follow him since I discover his work about a year ago. Freelance designer from UK, Joe is very productive and multi-talented : typography, ornements, logo... I was very pleased by his interpretation of the sentences I ask him to illustrate. I also want him to design the front cover of the calendar, and he brings the idea of the sun as it is the year of light... and it gaves me the idea of doing a glow in the dark edition !
Talking about the calendar, thanks a lot for the pre-orders, which have been sent on december 12th ! The painted edges edition is now sold out, so you have the choice between the glow in the dark (with painted edges) edition or the normal edition. The calendar has been featured on behance and published on fubiz !
As I already post Joe White work 2 times, so I put all the images in one page of the excellence section !
The cover and the 2 pages of the 2015 letterpress calendar designed by Joe White
Get the letterpress calendar here / follow Joe White on facebook / yeoldestudio.co.uk
More pictures after the jump
Kevin Cantrell 3 !
It is the 3td post about Kevin Cantrell (this year !)... It was the first I ask to participate to this year letterpress calendar, but sadly he told me he was too busy... and this is the proff !
He also just starts to presale a serie of new posters. Amazing details !
