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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...
Tales from the Lettering Morgue
Before the days of Pinterest and Flickr, artists kept a personal reference file called a morgue. The letterer’s equivalent was packed with headlines and wordmarks clipped from magazines and packaging, along with photos of billboards and sig...
New Lettering Remix Workshop!
If you’re looking to inject your letterforms with some fresh ideas, join us online for our brand new Lettering Remix workshop on Saturday, June 20, 2026. Together, we’ll explore how studying and decoding existing lettering examples can unco...
Last Call for Brush Casual!
If you’ve been meaning to level up your brush lettering, this is it. Our Brush Casual workshop is happening this weekend. And since we only run it once a year, now’s the time to get in on the fun before registration closes.
The bonus workb...
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