Hello my friends,
Today I am really proud to launch a new workshop about Collage Lettering. As you may know collage changed a lot the way I see lettering over the last year. And today I want to share it with you, because I really believe it can change things for you too.
You don’t have to be a lettering artist to take the workshop. It is really about playing with shapes, paper and glue. It is really about having fun with lettering and taking a moment off this crazy world and get creative.
Collage became a daily routine for me because it brings so much joy and is really meditative. So yes, again, sharing that passion with you is important for me because I really believe it can be beneficial for you as it is for me. On the professional side but on the personal one too.
The workshop will take place on March 29th from 3 to 7PM, so my friends from California can attend :P
Here are the details I did wrote on the workshop page:
“Learn the Art of Collage Lettering and its impact on your creativity. Cutting paper is a remarkable meditating technique and mixing it with letters takes you to places you never explored.
In this workshop you will learn to understand letters and see the impact of forms and counter forms on the design of the lettering piece. You will learn to make it unique but still readable at the same time.
Collage Lettering is really different than drawing letters. You have to be aware and open to its imperfections which make it unique and vibrant.
So we will detail letters shapes, try to go with the flow and not thinking too much of the outcome. This is a great exercise to take your lettering skills to another level. Also that exercise will have a global impact on how you work and will help you to be open to happy surprises with your work.
You will also go with the flow in a composition. You will learn to alternate different kinds of letters and make them go together whether on one or several lines.
Then we will learn another lettering style: script. Script lettering with paper cut is really something unique and by learning it you will learn to understand outlines, connections between letters, where to cut and not to cut. And again it will help you to improve your global lettering skills by understanding deeply how letters are formed, how they are linked, and what do to keep them readable while being unique and vibrant.
At the end of the workshop, we will dig a bit deeper by using all negative cutouts you kept from your exercises and try to make a words or more with them.
The goal of this workshop is to to give you another way to explore lettering, and perhaps a more vibrant and unique way, by letting get surprised by the process and appreciate an imperfect outcome.
And last but not least, all you will learn here will be reusable in your daily work. I use collage lettering everyday. I cut, glue and then scan it to vectorise it and use it in a project. Uses of collage lettering are unlimited.
Here is the list of the exercises we will practice:
Forms and Counterforms: playing with shapes of letters.
Forms and Counterforms: Go with the flow - Create a word
Forms and Counterforms: Go with the flow - Create a sentence
Discover the Art of Collage Script Lettering.
Play with the leftovers
The workshop is limited to 20 persons.
Note: The workshop is programmed around lettering but you will also be playing with cutout illustrations.
The workshop will take place on March 29th 2025 on Zoom, from 3PM to 7PM Paris time. It will also be recorded and will get a lifetime link afterwards to come back to it anytime you want. The Zoom link will be sent few days before the workshop.”
The video above is a good example of what you will do during that time. Again this is a really fun process :)
So here is the link to register. Seats are limited to 20 people. So don’t wait too long to decide. Also I tried to put a fair price for that workshop.
NOTE: as subscribers to the newsletter, you have a 10% discount with the code NEWSLETTER10. If you are a paid subscriber, you have a 25% discount. Let me know if you don’t remember your code :)
REMINDER: It take the opportunity to remind you that your discount, whether you are a free or paid subscriber is available for the whole shop, all year long, even when there is already another discount :)
If you have any questions, let me know, I will be happy to help.
This is it for today. As usual, enjoy your weekend and I really hope to meet you at the workshop.
Take care,
Francis
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