Field of Work: Calligraphy, typographer, hand letterer.
Interview with Minted.
Started by doing calligraphy, in school enjoyed the penmanship of writting in calligraphy, later did small commissions to earn some money for calligraphy pieces.
On her own style, she reflects:
" I’m not really traditional so I guess “whimsical” would be a good word. I like to play with letters and see what I can do with them that is unique. I also like to combine different styles and sizes of letters. Maybe “eclectic” might be a good fit as well."
Wanted to develop her calligraphy style into a typeface, as the commissions she did were often for wedding invitations and found the brides were aware of the costs of hand making them all and also couldnt make the calligraphy go always as they wanted.
On her approach to creating a typeface/lettering. After starting with thinking about who its aimed at and what its for:
"That leads to thinking about what I want it to “feel” like. For Belluccia, I wanted to create something that closely mimicked my personal lettering style, which is more on the whimsical side. "
Got together with Brian Bonislawsky (lead there from both Laura Worthington and Stuart Sandlar independently!) formed a partnership - Correspondence Ink Font Foundary, and the typeface Belluccia.
Process:
*Starts with thinking about who making for, what its being made for.
*That leads to thinking about the feel of the type.
*Merges two personalities in DomMary type, her aunt and uncle and their "meant for each other" relationship.
*Makes a page of letters, playing around. If theres one she likes she will then make more letters with that same feel.
*Then writes out pages with those letters, to get a feel of their lower and upper case forms.
*The final choices get scanned in and enhanced or edited in Photoshop.
*Brian edits them in FontLab giving them a digital form.
Sementelli, D. (2012) Minted: Interview with Type Designer Debi Sementelli, available at: http://www.minted.com/julep/2012/11/23/interview-with-type-designer-debi-sementelli/, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Belluccia:
Dom Loves Mary:
Simon Walker
Field of Work: Hand Lettering, Typogrpahy
Interview with One Minute With:
Designed hand letters that were highly influenced by 80's hip hop and grafitti scene in his youth.
On Simon reflecting on his journey leading from hand lettering in typeface design:
"for me, my love of custom type flowed naturally into a desire to try my hand at font design. I’d be working on a logo with custom type and somebody would say “You should turn that into a font”."
Field of Work: Illustrator, hand letterer, cartoonist, writer, gift cards and wrap.
Interview on her website
worked with Hallmark, New York Times, The Observer, Emirates United Open Skies magazine, etc.
Which pens she uses:
-->>"PITT artist pens, Uniball Eye and UniPin fineliners, Kuretake ZIG Art & graphics Twin. For colouring, I use watercolour, ink, Kuretake brush markers and Kuretake Clean Colour brush pens. For murals, I like Posca paint pens, or Kuretake “Paintys”."<<--
Correll, G (2013) FAQ, available at: http://www.gemmacorrell.com/about-me-faqs/, viewed on 23/09/2013.
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