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Sean McCabe

Sean McCabe is a calligrapher, hand lettering artist and type designer. He hand draws every single one of his typographies, inspired by the nature of the hand drawn and how it can almost look computer generated. I have looked at him as most of my typographies so far have been hand created and I have tried using the grid method to make them precise and accurate. This style really inspires me, and along with all of the hand drawn styles I love how he combines many styles of type to create one piece. Here I have had a go at one of his pieces to see how it would look like by using his technique.

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Mateusz Witezak: My Style

 

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Mateusz Witezak does his typography in the hand-drawn style, using precision to make the typography flow. I have had a go at this in the style, using a black fine-liner to create these type faces. I know that they haven’t turned out the best, and some of the lines aren’t the straightest- yet I still feel that this experiment was successful. I learnt a lot from this process, learning that drawing a grid makes the composition a whole lot easier as all of the letters will then be all of the same size. Also, this makes the whole process a lot more accurate and easier to draw out. I sticked to the monochrome style, just as Witezak, which I feel has made the type a lot better in this instance because I simplifies the design. I will continue to experiment in this way because I love the aesthetic of it and hopefully with the things that I have learnt they will be more successful outcomes.

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Mateusz Witezak: Calligraphy and Hand-drawn type

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Mateusz Witezak is an artist and typographer who hand draws all of his type faces in a calligraphy style. The aspect that I find interesting about his style is the composition and layout. I’m inspired by the way the different styles of typography blend into each other and how the patterns bring them all together around them. I think that this style would go well on a book cover in the style of some of the others that I have researched, as it is eye catching and it would be suitable for the crime thriller/dystopian genres.

Again, continuing from the other styles that I have researched, I really love how the monochrome colour scheme looks on this style of type and it makes it more gripping and olden. Yet, when I see designs like this it reminds me of contemporary styles because of the composition and precision that it has been constructed with. For one of my six letter designs I am going to try this style by using pens and fine-liners, using freehand type and the grid method that we learnt in the workshop to achieve many outcomes.

 

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Hand-drawn: The Grid Method

In the workshop today I learnt how to draw typography by using the grid method. This involved creating boxes/lines to distribute the letters so that they would follow a systematic outline and look precise.

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To begin with we all did the letters H N O Y as these covered all elements of most letters and we figured out which ones were more difficult more than the others. The grid allowed me to draw them accurately and get most of the elements the right size. I found the O the hardest to do as this didn’t follow the lines of the grid, but instead just had to stay inside of the lines. Also, because it went thinner at both the bottom and the top inside, and grew thicker on the curves it made the process harder. I am happy with the outcome of these, and I have gone on to experiment with my own lettering using the grid method. I followed all of the steps which were on the tutorial along with using my own design to make these. I like the curves which I added to both the J and the I because it changes the appearance of the overall work. The curvature on the M changes the aesthetic too, and I’m happy with how these have turned out. I will continue using the grid method as I liked how these have turned out and I would like to develop them further.