{"id":45814,"date":"2016-09-06T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativecircle.com\/?p=45814"},"modified":"2016-09-06T05:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T12:00:28","slug":"advice-hand-lettering-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativecircle.com\/blog\/advice-hand-lettering-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Letter Better: Advice from six hand-lettering artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hand lettering is huge these days, and is inspiring many designers to add hand-lettering to their skill sets. With the explosion of the sharing economy, designers are learning from each other.<\/p>\n

Hand-letterers craft letters using mark-making tools for a specific application or use. What’s the best way to get started or level up in lettering? These six up and coming hand-lettering artists use their skill to create artwork that evokes meaning and expression. Get their best advice on how to improve your own skills.<\/p>\n

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\"LetteringJoseph Alessio is a typographic illustrator based in San Francisco who blends type, letters and animates a host of mixed media in typographic compositions. Joseph’s approach with spatial relationships in type and motion is unique. He loves that part of the process in the middle, when you feel like you can experiment and play and discover – “that’s to me the most exciting and fulfilling part.”<\/p>\n\n\t\t