The Illustrated Letter

Illustrator and graphic designer Melinda Beck combines lettering and drawing skills to create illustrated and animated typography for book covers, movie posters, and hand-lettered titles. This class is for graphic designers who want to be more experimental and illustrative with their typography, illustrators who wish to venture into hand lettering, or anyone who would like to have fun experimenting and creating with illustration and typography. Work can be created digitally or by hand. Melinda will share her experience and knowledge with you as you work on projects such as an illustrated initial cap, a book cover, and letters made from found objects. For inspiration, the class will look at various examples from the Letterform Archive’s 100,000 object collection, including illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages, 19th-century movie posters, current book cover designs, and more!

Sign up before May 1st for a 10% discount!

Required Materials 

• paper/pencil/sketching tools
• 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.