Events
Lettering for Logos and Titles
with Melinda Beck
Create beautiful custom-lettered logos, hand-lettered titles, and headlines to transform your design and illustration work.
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Melinda will share her 30 years of experience in creating award-winning hand lettering for clients such as Random House, Rolling Stone magazine, The New York Times, The U.S. Postal Service, and Chronicle Books. She will conduct a live demonstration of her process, while attendees will create their own custom lettering. The class will start drawing letterforms with a mechanical pencil and paper, and finish by designing the final vector art. During this process, Melinda will review the anatomy of letters, explain how to create a cohesive-looking font, and provide tips for translating your work into vector art.
Sign up before December 29th for a 10% discount!
Required Materials
- mechanical pencil, .5mm lead, kneaded eraser, and paper.
- laptop + Creative Suite software
Diversity and Equity Scholarship
Diversity and Equity are important to all of us at Letterform Archive, and we are committed to increasing opportunities for underrepresented groups within the type and design communities.
We are offering one BIPOC/Equity scholarship seat in this workshop.
To apply for this scholarship, please complete and submit to us the short form linked here at least a week prior to the start of the workshop
Melinda Beck
Melinda Beck is an illustrator, animator, and graphic designer with 30 years of experience who has received numerous awards, including two Emmy nominations and medals from the Society of Illustrators. Her projects include a series of stamps for the U.S. Postal Service commemorating the 50th anniversary of TITLE IX and multiple murals for the New York Public Library. Her work is in the permanent collection of The Library of Congress
