40 beautiful and creative typography designs to inspire | 2experts Design - Web Design and Graphic Design Blog Below you’ll find a collection of 40 beautiful and creative typography designs to inspire you that will allow you to expand your knowledge base of what typography really is. [postadsense] Old School Type - Line Gradients | GoMediaZine One of our readers suggested we write a tutorial explaining how to do this cool text effect. On the Dragonforce logo above, the basis of my typography was sketched on paper first and then vectored in Illustrator using the Pen Tool. The process for creating the base logo is not included in this tutorial. Instead, we are going to take the base logo and add that cool “line gradient” effect that you see inside the actual letters. This gives the text an old-school or vintage feel to it. Here are some more examples: So in order to get this effect, we will need both Adobe Illustrator CS2 or higher and Adobe Photoshop. You can see the kind of effect we are going to create. Step 1: Prepare your base logo or typeface. We will use our Dragonforce Logo as our base, but you can simply use your favorite font. 1a: Open up Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop 1b: Create your base text (just type something out using a bold font) Step 2: Make a new document in Photoshop Step 5: Make the text black. Conclusion:
Illustrative Lettering Creative Session Wrap | Psdtuts+ It's a wrap. This session has covered a mix of illustrative lettering articles on theory and in depth case studies. We've taken a close look at various artist's work and their various processes of constructing illustrative lettering. We've looked at how to derive inspiration from your imagination, the history of type, and how to create letters with an illustrative flair. This session posted across numerous Tuts+ sites: Psdtuts+, Vectortuts+, Cgtuts+, and Phototuts+. Illustrative Lettering CS Content Developing a Passion for Illustrative LetteringIn this article I'd like to present some thoughts and theories that I use for creating illustrative lettering. Your Thoughts on this Illustrative Lettering Session We'd love to here your feedback and suggestions on how to improve Creative Sessions. Coming Soon, Digital Illustration Creative Sessions Our next session will be on digital illustration.
Developing Illustrative Type to Complement Your Style | Vectortuts+ My name is Jonny Wan and I am a freelance illustrator based in the UK. My style is based upon shape experimentation, patterns and textures and I draw inspiration from ancient cultures and civilizations. More recently I have rekindled my love for type and now developing a way of working with type that is congruent with my illustrative style so the two can work in tandem when applied to commissions that requires both. This article aims to just give you a glimpse as to how I have personally approached this development, which is very much still ongoing. 1. As with anything creative it is subject of criticism and personal opinion, the important thing to remember is that there is no right or wrong in how and in what direction you choose to explore your work. When starting to create type that compliments your style, heavy experimentation is the key and one thing I cant stress enough is to not be afraid to jump straight into the deep end. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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