Lettering and Design for Book Covers
Event Info
This workshop takes place across two sessions:
- Tues, March 9, 6-8pm ET
- Tues, March 16, 6-8pm ET
In this two-session workshop with Faride Mereb and Mirko Velimirovic, students will begin by learning type basics and tools. How to transform handwritten lettering into a digital file will be covered using the Glyphs application. Participants will then learn how to incorporate their lettering into a book cover design in Adobe InDesign. Instructors will show unique and successful examples for inspiration and discuss the process for choosing a layout for your book cover.
Required Materials:
- 1/2 inch flat brush
- White poster board
- Rhodia notebook 5mm grid
- Pilot Parallel pen 6mm, 3.8mm
- Walnut Ink
- InDesign
- Measuring tape
About the Instructors
Faride Mereb is an award-winning book designer, art director, researcher and editor. Originally from Venezuela, she is currently based in New York City and holds ongoing artistic collaborations in Latin America and Europe. She is the founder of Letra Muerta Press and continues to work with master printer Javier Aizpurua in Venezuela for his renowned press Ex Libris. She was exhibited at the Center for Book Arts in a 2020 Featured Artist Project titled The Private Life of Rag Dolls.
Mirko Velimirovic is a Lettering Artist, Type Designer, and Font Engineer working in NYC. Currently he contributes work to Darden studio, and open source variable font projects on Github. In 2019 through January of 2020 he was the chapter lead of Type Thursday NYC. He has guest lectured in classes on type design at SVA, and ECUAD. When he’s not doing calligraphy, he spends his time wrangling difficult software problems in FOSS and NDA font projects. The rest of the time he spends entertaining his two cats.
All images courtesy of the instructors.
In order to best serve our community near and far, many of our online classes are pay-what-you-can. While each class has a suggested price, we wish to make our educational programming as economically accessible as possible as well as to make sure our students feel fulfilled in their creative processes outside of the studio. The amount you choose to pay goes directly toward our instructors and toward creating scholarship opportunities for the future.
