Fonts and logos double-feature workshop, with design legends Dan Cederholm and Aaron Draplin. It doesn’t get better than this. Sign up now.
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Making Your First Font with Dan Cederholm
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 9:00AM to 12:00PM (PST)
In this interactive Dribbble Workshop session, Dan Cederholm will demystify dipping your toes into the world of type design—he’ll show you that creatives of any stripe can take their letterform ideas and begin crafting them into fully-functional fonts. You’ll learn how to gather inspiration for your typeface, iterate upon letterforms, as well as translate your rough sketches into Glyphs app to start bringing your design to life.
Along the way you’ll gain insights into Dan’s unique creative journey—he’s a creative everyman who’s also been a consummate renaissance man over the course of his 20-year career. Under his SimpleBits moniker, Dan’s been coding, designing, writing books, hosting podcasts, puppeteering, selling his awesome brand of Advencher wares, and designing charming typeface families. (Oh, and this is in addition to also co-founding a little creative community called Dribbble, too.)
When you sign up for this limited-seat Dribbble Workshop session, you’re going to leave with a headful of actionable ideas on how these typeface designs came to life, as well as three free font weights from Dan’s very own typeface families.
What you’ll learn
- How to find type inspiration
- Dan’s font-making process
- Basics of Glyphs app
- Working with paths
- Designing alternates
- Drawing monoline letterforms
- Mastering diacritics
- Tips to make your first font
Who?
Dan Cederholm is the co-founder of Dribbble, owner and maker at SimpleBits, a tiny design company and shop. Cutting his teeth on standards-based web design almost 20 years ago, he mostly creates logos, fonts, and t-shirts these days. Dan has written several books on the craft of creating websites. He collects hobbies and is a dad in real life.
How Much?
USD 199 (plus 13.75 fee)
both workshops USD 299 (plus 19.84 fee)
Language
English
Prerequisites
Mac with the latest Glyphs 3 preinstalled.
Design a Logo the DDC Way with Aaron Draplin
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:00PM to 4:00PM (PST)
Looking to make your mark? Join Aaron Draplin for an interactive Dribbble Workshop where you’ll learn how to hone your eye and utilize creative tools in crafting impactful logos—all using DDC-approved design tips and tricks.
Whether it’s learning how to unearth inspiration in your everyday environment or getting your hands dirty sketching, iterating, and refining—you’ll walk away from this workshop ready to make a logo the DDC way.
As a bonus, you’ll also leave this session with an official DDC reference PDF, a handy guide to use as you apply your workshop learnings to your own design work. Lastly, Draplin wanted us to tell you, “he tends to go long” so be prepared for some workshop overtime as you’re immersed in all the tips, takeaways, and tall tales you’re in store for!
What you’ll learn
- Logo design
- Adobe Illustrator
- Inspiration gathering
- Sketching
- Iterating
- Design tips & tricks
- Client relations
- File handoff
Who?
Aaron Draplin traveled the world telling his story, with over 450 speaking fiascos under his belt and counting! He co-created Field Notes with his older brother Jim Coudal, and their memo books are sold in over 2,500 stores worldwide, with limited-edition special editions shipped quarterly to a booming subscriber list. He’s filmed six Skillshare classes that are raging along, teaching kids all over the world. His first book titled Pretty Much Everything came out on May 17, 2016 on Abrams Books, which incredibly, is in its eighth printing. His roster of DDC Merch is up to 275 products and growing! You’ll see those goodies at DDC merch tables from coast to coast or in his online shop at draplin.com. He prides himself on a high level of craftsmanship and quality that keeps us up late into the wet Portland night.
He rolls up his sleeves for Coal Headwear, Union Binding Co., Richmond Fontaine, Esquire, Nike, Wired, Dinosaur Jr, Timberline, Chunklet, Eaux Claires Music Festival, Poler, Incase, Sub Pop Records, Fender, Marc Maron, Cobra Dogs, Jill Soloway, Sasquatch Music Festival, Rhett Miller, Old 97s, Jason Isbell, Nixon Watches, Bernie Sanders, Patagonia, Target, Chris Stapleton, NASA/JPL, John Hodgman, Ford Motor Company, Woolrich and even the Obama Administration, if you can believe that.
How Much?
USD 199 (plus 13.75 fee)
both workshops USD 299 (plus 19.84 fee)
Language
English
