Letterform Invention
Playful approach to alternative and spontaneous calligraphy
Course Summary
Join us for a dynamic three-session class designed to unlock your creativity through a series of engaging exercises. These sessions will provide opportunities for exploration and inspiration while offering a framework to guide your creative process. We will integrate design thinking principles throughout, fostering an environment of play and spontaneity. Participants will utilize prompts to discover new directions and insights, which can be harvested and seamlessly integrated into their existing work. Not only are the exercises valuable on their own, but they also enhance your creative abilities and broaden your approach to letter formation. While three sessions may only scratch the surface, we can always revisit and expand the experience in the future.
Workshop Details: Sessions: November 16, 23, and December 7
(3 Saturdays starting at 2:00 EDT) Cost: $95 USD
Format: Live Zoom workshop
Recorded and available for two months after the last session, (which means until February 7th).
Each live session is about 90 minutes. Includes exemplars. Level: Intermediate to advanced
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I hope this to be a stimulating and inspirational workshop.
John Stevens
John Stevens is a well-known and accomplished letter artist known for a wide range of exemplary work. Beginning as a sign painter in New York, his insatiable inquiry into letters and their design led him into type, calligraphy, and lettering, learning to use various pens, brushes, and later computers. His clients are in publishing, packaging, advertising, television, and film. (Lucasfilm, Life, Time, Newsweek, Tiffany’s, New York Public Library are a few of them.) He also gets called on to create hand-written documents on paper and vellum, the calligraphers’ traditional work.
He has been invited to teach at many national and international letter arts conferences throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and South America as an instructor of this art. His original works are included in the San Francisco Public Library, Berlin’s Akademie der Künste, La Casa del Libro (San Juan, Puerto Rico), and many private collections. John's calligraphy and lettering have been published and reproduced in dozens of books and publications about Lettering and calligraphy; in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States. His book Scribe: Artist of the Written Word was published in 2013 to critical acclaim. The new book, Mastering Broad Brush Roman Capitals, is now available @ John Neal Bookseller.
John will be on faculty of Roman Holiday| 2024 International Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Conference
You can follow him on Instagram, Twitter & Facebook. Website: www.johnstevensdesign.com
Recent lecture: The Letterform Archive (2019)
