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Lettering Off the Grid
My lettering obsessions have led me down some unexpected rabbit holes: romance paperbacks, cabinet cards, and breweriana, to name a few. More recently I became mildly obsessed with rectilinear sans serifs—what commercial letterers call flat...
Last New Workshop of the Summer!
A big misconception about lettering is that originality starts with a blank slate. In reality, the best lettering artists know how to uncover new ideas hidden in letters that already exist. That’s the focus of Lettering Remix, our new onlin...
Peek Inside the Lettering Remix Guidebook
Lettering doesn’t appear out of thin air. Experienced letterers study what works, identify patterns, borrow forms, and transform those influences into something new. These are the essential skills at the heart of our upcoming Lettering Remi...
Lettering Legend: Hobie "Mac" MacQuarrie
Long before Pinterest boards and image searches, designers built their own collections of inspiration by clipping and saving examples they admired. Few people embraced that practice more enthusiastically than Hobie MacQuarrie, known to frie...
How to Remix Lettering
One of the most essential yet overlooked techniques in lettering is remixing existing letterforms to create fresh work. Just like musicians sample the hook of a favorite song to create something new, letterers have long drawn inspiration fr...
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