Illustrated Digital Lettering

Learn how to add depth and meaning to words using shapes, color, and volume

• Introduction
• Preparation and Research
• Working With Type
• Illustration: Transform Your Inspiration
• Sharing the Story
• Final project

Illustrated lettering designs have the power to engulf the viewer into an imaginative rollercoaster, awakening their emotions through the multiple layers of meaning within each letter. Behind this imaginative artwork lies a structured methodology, research, and lots of playfulness, all of which can be learned in this course.

Birgit Palma—renowned artist specializing in type illustration—takes you to her own designer’s playground and shows you all the steps to creating unique illustrated lettering art.

Using her vast experience from working with major clients such as Adidas, Adobe US, Diesel, Hyundai, Coca-Cola, more, she shows you how to go from the initial ideation, to designing on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, right up to the best way to share it with clients and peers.

• About Me
• Influences
• What We Will Do in the Course?
• The Design Principles
• What Is a Modular Type?
• Prepare Your Workspace in Illustrator
• Helpful Shortcuts in Illustrator
• VIP Illustrator Tools: Pathfinder & Blend Tools
• Starting the Research
• Turning Your Research Into Original Ideas
• What Type Style Is Your City?
• Create a Modular Grid
• Color, Composition & Balance Your Artwork
• Transform Your Inspiration
• Start to Create Elements
• Combine Illustration, Typography & Color
• Dress up Your Modular Type: Attention to Detail
• Final Recommendations
• Round Up
• Illustrated Digital Lettering