This in-person class meets from 10 am to 5 pm on Tuesday, June 20 and from 10 am to 1 pm on Wednesday, June 21.

In-Person Typographics Conference ticket holders can get a 10% discount on this workshop

Could MTV’s Pimp My Ride act as a blueprint for drawing a dynamic piece of lettering? With cars as with drawing, a solid foundation ensures that the whole vehicle hums along harmoniously. And a little bling goes a long way towards drafting souped-up, high-gloss letters that are sure to turn heads.

By using professional font editing technology made available to typeface designers rolled into a workflow with Adobe Illustrator, designers can draft clean and consistent lettering well prepared to be tricked out. In this hands-on workshop, participants will begin by hand lettering, learn to vectorize the forms using Glyphs, and generate the letters needed for a lettering piece to be developed further in Illustrator. These digital tools allow for maximum flexibility and potential to explore effects like shades, shadows, highlight, out and inlines, bevels, prismatic effects, warps and beyond. Students will leave with a methodology for drawing structurally-sound letters, and a bevy of styling techniques to explore further.

This workshop is intended for students, recent grads and working professionals looking to create custom lettering and type treatments that's well-structured, full of life, and open to personal infusion.