Top Typism Summit Tips

The Typism Summit is a series of short masterclasses by lettering professionals, developed with our online community in mind. This week we're sharing our favourite tips from each presenter!

Back in 2017, Typism Founder Dominique Falla went on a road trip up and down the east coast of Australia, creating a series of intimate videos, shot in the artist's studios.

Most of the presenters are past Typism speakers, and all of them are creative professionals who have forged an identity as an expert in a specific form or technique of lettering. 

Eliza Svikulis: Figuring out YOUR signature style

Are you struggling to build your own distinct style? Eliza's masterclass with guide you through the process of establishing your own signature style. 

Our Fave Tip: Eliza suggests creating a mood board of all your inspirations and influences and refer to those instead of always looking at social media!

Matt Vergotis: Creating your Brush Pen Signature-style Logo

Matt Vergotis masterclass takes you through his process start to finish when developing a signature style logo.
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Matt's Tip: When starting out with brush lettering start with a firm tip to help steady your hand.

Wayne Thompson: Refining your Hand Lettering

In Wayne's masterclass, he shares his techniques and tricks to drawing letterforms using pencils and brush pens and then demonstrates his refinement process to get his lettering ready for vectoring. 

Wayne's Pro Tip: Using baking or greaseproof paper instead of tracing paper to save costs!⠀

Maria Montes: Introduction to Neuland Script

Maria's Masterclass is an introduction to Neuland Script and covers the basic brush strokes needed and how to bring them together to create letterforms.⠀
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Maria's Tip: When performing your strokes keep the bamboo pen at either a 0 or 90 degree angle.

Libbi Reed: From Pointed Pen to Brush Pen

Libbi Reed's masterclass is about learning and understanding how calligraphy can be an important practice to learn letterforms and improve the flow of your lettering.

Libbi's Tip: Start with some warmup drills to help loosen up and relax!

Barbara Enright and Carla Hackett: Brush Lettering for Lefties and Beginners

Barbara and Carla teach you all about creating beautiful strokes with brush lettering and is full of tricks for lefties.

Their Top Tip: Dissect the letters into strokes to help get the desired shape.

Brett Piva: Sign Writing Effects

Brett's masterclass covers casual and script sign writing styles sharing the basics techniques to understand how to achieve the correct letterforms.

Brett's Tip: Draw the word out before you paint it to learn the structure.⠀

Nikita Prokhorov: Create your own Ambigram

In Nikita's masterclass, he teaches you how to design ambigrams.

Our Fave Tip: If your letters can't be manipulated you can try overlapping the letters as a solution. 

Aurelie Maron: Vectoring your Letter Forms

Aurelie Maron masterclass takes us through her process when creating vectors logos.⠀
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Aurelie's Tip: Adjust your vector on both a white then black background!⠀

The Typism Skills Summit is now part of our Typism Membership. Our Typism Membership is a one-stop-shop if you're trying to build a successful lettering business. 

Check out our Membership website to learn more!