Get all my fonts for 29€ and 25% off on my next workshop
Because sometimes we all need a good deal :)
Hello friends,
This week I want to offer 2 special things.
Get all my fonts for 29€
While I was riding my bike between home and work yesterday, I had the idea of making a temporary bundle of all my fonts. You hear right, you get my 6 different published fonts for only 29€. Separate, they are 15€ each, so take your calculator and see the great discount you get :) It gives you the opportunity to play with color fonts, layer fonts, Opentype features, like interlock and design a great retro vintage SciFi design maybe?
The offer starts today and lasts until the end of next week (October 8th 2023). Which means you have 10 days to get them. Also, paid subscribers can use their 20% discount on the bundle too. Maybe a good time to become a paid subscriber? ;-)
Here is the link to get your bundle :)
25% off my workshop “Lettering to font”
And because a good news never comes alone ( why I don’t know…), my friends at Ilovetypography.com decided to setup a 25% discount on all of their online workshops, mine included. And it is available until the end of this week. So if you want to spend a weekend with me (online), learning about lettering, even studying old lettering work and transform them in a font using Fontself on the iPad and Glyphs, woohoo don’t wait too long, tickets are limited and again the sale ends Sunday evening. The workshop will take place on Zoom I think, the weekend of November 4th and 5th.
But let me tell you a bit about why I think that workshop is worth it:
If you like my work, you will like studying old lettering artworks from the 60s, see how they work, how the letters are constructed. Only that is worth it.
Then you will have the chance to draw letters, to draw a whole alphabet based on a lettering you will have chosen and studied.
This is also a great opportunity to discover type design through 2 fantastic apps, Fontself for the iPad and Glyphs.
And at last but not least, you will make your font looks like lettering with different glyphs for the same letter or ligatures, thanks to Opentype features.
I think this is a unique kind of workshop, and you won’t find the same one anywhere else.
Here is the link to the workshop page and apply the coupon DRAW23 on your purchase.
I hope you like these deals I have for you this week. Next week, you should get some exciting news too. But that’s it for today :)
Artist of the week: Chris Ware
Yesterday, I had the chance to see an exhibition of the work of Chris Ware in Basel. I will be totally honest I did not know his work before (shame on me), but I love the place, the Cartoon Museum where I saw another great exhibition of Christoph Niemann a few years ago. We were hanging out with my friend Camille Epplin and decided to check it out. And WOWOWOWOW that was so impressive.
Chris Ware is a contemporary cartoonist and illustrator that works only analog. All his drawings are hand made with a first layer of blue pencil, which won’t be seen on a scan, and then he paint with ink all the lines and details. This is totally shocking. Some works are so detailed and big that in a society where artists must give their illustration for the next day and paid peanuts, how can he make a living of his art? Check out the short film below made by Art21 about him, he says one piece of paper takes around 40 hours.
What amazed me the most as a lettering artist is how he does manage so well the design of letters. Today artists seem more focused on a niche where Chris Ware does excels on several kind of arts. And lettering seems something he masters. And remember, he does it all with pencil and ink. Check out the pictures I took:
Book of the week: Karel Martens, 2024 Calendar, Every day is a new day
Let’s finish with another great artist/designer, Karel Martens. I will write more about him in the coming weeks. Another person I discovered the work lately and I am amazed about. And today I want to show you his fantastic 2024 calendar. Every day is a new day but also a new number, coloured and with overlaps. I am not sure yet, but it seems Karel Martens uses a lot of industrial stuff he finds to create his work. I can’t wait to read more about him and tell you his story. Here are some pictures of his calendar I stole from Counterprint, (I mean the pictures, not the calendar :D), the best online shop for design books. Get this calendar, it is also a great object.
And this is it for today :) Get my fonts, register to my workshop, learn about Chris Ware and buy Karel Martens’s calendar. It should be enough until next week haha :D Thanks for your support and:
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Have a nice weekend and talk to you next week.
Francis