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    Casual Letters with a Brush Pen

    Pumphouse School of Design 24 Greenway St, Wickham

    Do you love looking at those online videos of old sign painters creating cool lettering? Now you can learn how it’s constructed and do it yourself, using nothing more than a brush pen. Sign Casuals is a lettering style with lots of tradition but also lots of flexibility. At this workshop you’ll learn the basics of letter construction, methods of creating pen strokes for lively letters, along with techniques for shadowing and embellishment. You’ll also take home some alphabet sample worksheets for practice. Suitable For This class is designed for participants who have a professional or personal interest in typography, art...

    $180.00

    Creating a Signature-style Wordmark

    University of Canberra University Dr, Bruce ACT 2617, Canberra

    Do you design logos using type but don't know how to customise them? Would you like to create vivacious typographic solutions for your design practice? In this workshop, I'll show you my technique for creating a typographic wordmark or logo. Using the example above, I'll start with the drawing stages and demonstrate how I refine and improve the letter shapes, flow, and discuss the merits of ligatures, cursive joins and baseline consistency, as well as other lettering styles. I will also show you how to use tracing paper to improve your design in stages before photographing your wordmark and vectoring...

    $99

    Principles of Typeface Design

    Pumphouse School of Design 24 Greenway St, Wickham

    Thursday nights for 8 weeks Commencing Thursday 22 March 2018 Weeks 1-4 : 22 March to 12 April  | 1-week break  |  Weeks 5-8: 26 April to 17 May 6.00pm–9.00pm Cost $880.00 including GST This eight week course is for anyone who wants to design their own typeface. We will show you the primary techniques and tools required to make a font that you can type on your own keyboard. The course will start with drawing letters, learning about the principles of proportion and legibility along the way. You will move on to digitising your letters using Adobe Illustrator, and then to constructing a working typeface using...