Michael Twyman's class

Illuminated V

for mate

practic

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

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After decades in an abandoned state, a tech school bought it in 2019 and it was supposed to be restored by summer 2020. I guess something happened. I hope they plan to save the classic gaspipe letters. At least two are about to fall off.

Lettering based on scans from this book.

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

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It's been a good day for some close up product photography.

In the Melbert B. Cary Jr. Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

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finally got to try out the 1 shot lettering enamel

"Leathercraft" Trying to design some old skool "sign" kind of lettering for one of my leather tool boxes.. not sure if I´m going to use it, but it is very relaxing to draw.. :-)

Illuminated Q

Illuminated K

Tatouage lettering live forever avant bras by lys tattoo

from the book: "Architectural Lettering" by Arthur E. Burke. 1953.

Ok, someone needs to makes these fantastic fonts into usable fonts on computers!

Bed Stuy, Brooklyn

illuminated A

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An Italic Swash Capitals alphabet written with double pencil

See the video at billgrant43.wordpress.com/

Illuminated L

From Photo-Lettering, Inc.’s Ah! Big Little Book catalog, 1982.

Based on this German metal type.

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Personal project

Lettering inspired by expressionist typography of the 1920s. Written with black felt tip pens (0.1 & 0.8) on cream A4 card.

'Sam Stone' lyrics by John Prine.

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

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Hamburg Rotherbaum, Mittelweg

The cutting of this stone by Fud Benson is documented in the film “Final Marks: The Art of the Carved Letter” (1979). At the Bixler Letterfoundry.

Yoga - brush lettering practice for day 14 of #100daysoflettering

taking Joanne Sharpe's artful alphabet class and practicing in my journal

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Yesterday, Mark van Bronkhorst introduced me to this bizarre lettering manual from the 1890s(!). Full of grid-based ideas, some of them insane. There are several other editions published around the turn of the century. You can find crappy contemporary reprints but better to just browse a complete 1912 edition on the Internet Archive.

Preface:

“The formality of a preface may seem scarcely necessary for the supplementing of a system as simple and comprehensible as the one herewith presented.

We have but to divide any surface we may wish to letter into squares (or parallelograms as the case may be), in pencil lines; form the required letters, in ink or paint, and according to the style chosen; erase the pencil lines, and the lettering is complete.”

estudio.calderon🔥NEWS🔥Some years ago, in our studio we got one of the #Photolettering manuals 📙 "One Line", it has been an important working tool in our creative processes. We have made designs based on the alphabets compiled in the book and we are glad 😎 to show you our first #lettering "Royal Rumble" inspired in "Davison Balmon" alphabet with some personal touches.