#Carol DuBosch

[rbolick]

Books On Books Collection - Corinne Ringel Bailey

Alphabet Book No. 2108 (1934) Alphabet Book No. 2108 (1934)Corinne Ringel BaileyLinen book. Saddle-stitch, staples, H305 x w255 mm. 8 linen leaves including cover. Acquired 19 January 2023.Photos: Books On Books Collection. Known now primarily for its Raggedy Ann books, The Saalfield Publishing Company (1900-77) published a wide range of linen books for children, naturally including numerous…

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#C.B. Falls #Carol DuBosch #Corinne Ringel Bailey #Graeme Base #Saalfield Publishing Co. #Sonia Delaunay

[visualpractitioner]

Mashups Help Inspire Good Ideas

What's a mashup? Simply put, it's two or more ideas combined to inspire something new. One of my favorite games (that I rarely play because I can't find anyone to play with) is Disruptus. It offers up 3 types of cards: illustrations, photos, and flat graphics (icons). There is a sand timer and a die you can roll to determine how you will mash up your ideas.

After hanging out with a fabulous group of art pals who also happen to have a love/hate relationship with their Cricuts, I came up with this idea.

A hand-drawn graphic of a seed sprouting up out of the ground with the words: Plant Seeds of Intention.

Made to hang in a window by a piece of jute string.

Cut from a LaCroix box - way to upcycle!

Presented with a handmade paper backing that is embedded with wildflower seeds.

This idea didn't just come to me. It was inspired by Carol DuBosch's Monkey Bar Caps class, Mike Gold's Letters and Scissors and Paste, Oh My! class, Earth Day, the local Durango Sustainable Goods shop AND Helen Hiebert's A Paper Year class.

I had a great time drawing it on my iPad, learning how to use my Cricut, and resourcing the paper. I'm happy to announce that I found a local handmade paper maker who is willing to create seeded paper for this project. For someone just starting out, Sarah Lemcke makes beautiful paper. Click here to see her work on Instagram.

Helen Hiebert featured my idea in a recent blogpost: https://helenhiebertstudio.com/the-fractured-giant/

And I couldn't be more pleased that Durango Sustainable Goods carries my cards and will continue to carry them at their new location.

What ideas have you mashed up lately?

#lettering #sustainable #mashup #creativity #card #Cricut #art

[suvorovaart]

New Post has been published on Sigrlynn Art

New Post has been published on http://sigrlynn.com/inspiration/

Вдохновение.

Сегодня, в этот прекрасный весенний понедельник, я хочу поделиться с вами ссылками на работы тех, кем я вдохновляюсь в каллиграфии, леттеринге и шрифтах! Работы этих авторов я рассматриваю и анализирую для себя, для расширения своего кругозора. Это ссылки на мастеров красивого письма и на просто хороших каллиграфов и шрифтовиков, которых надо знать. Этот список я постоянно обновляю и пополняю. Потому что мир не стоит на месте. Появляются новые звёзды! John Stevens, Holly Dickens Luca Barcellona Carl Rohrs Denis Brown Carol Dubosch Марина Марьина Christopher Haanes Чобитько, Добровинский, Петровский, Торбеев Это именно хорошие каллиграфы их на самом деле больше, если вспомню допишу.

Очень красивые шрифтовые работы: https://www.behance.net/DM2graphics https://www.behance.net/ARJr https://www.behance.net/milen прям очень https://www.behance.net/Denis_Masharov https://www.behance.net/sawdust https://www.facebook.com/yuri.gordon

Ребята посовременнее, тут вперемешку леттеринг и каллиграфия: https://www.behance.net/ksenia_belobrova https://www.behance.net/yaniguille https://www.behance.net/bmddesign https://www.behance.net/shimanov https://www.behance.net/PaLaMa https://www.behance.net/BroLetters – там 4 автора, очень быстро развивающихся, надеюсь мы увидим от них много интересного https://www.behance.net/chiara_riva https://www.behance.net/Remrk https://www.behance.net/DavidMilan https://www.behance.net/Mustaev https://www.behance.net/olgavasik https://www.behance.net/joluvian https://www.behance.net/andreasmhansen https://www.behance.net/Dina_Zhuravleva https://www.instagram.com/dina_zhyravleva/ https://www.behance.net/VikaVita_Lopukhiny – кириллица, обязательно к просмотру, великолепные буквы и работы. Они же: https://www.instagram.com/vikatata/ https://www.behance.net/sergeyshapiro – нельзя не упомянуть, чудесные логотипы в основе которых каллиграфия )))

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“taking words that I care very much about and pondering them and thinking about them, and having the ability to express them on paper. And my unique way to work with words that matter to me.”

#inspiration #writing #calligraphy #handwritten #Carol Dubosch

[rbolick]

Books On Books Collection - Amy Lapidow

Books On Books Collection – Amy Lapidow

Spiralbet (1998) Spiralbet (1998)Amy LapidowTunnel book. Cloth bound and lined archival box. Closed:H165 x W185 x D5 mm. Open: D220 Acquired from the artist, 9 September 2022.Photo: James Prinz This work was first spotted in the online catalogue for Abecedarium: An Exhibition of Alphabet Books (1998) from the Guild of Bookworkers. Being a small thumbnail on the second screen or page and…

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#Amy Lapidow #Andrew Morrison #Borje Svensson #Carol DuBosch #Guild of Book Workers #Helen Malone #Jack Oudyn #James Diaz #Jean Holabird #Karen Hanmer #Rebecca Bingham #Vladimir Nabokov

[rbolick]

Books On Books Collection - Carol DuBosch

Books On Books Collection – Carol DuBosch

In these additions to the Collection, Carol DuBosch joins the art of calligraphy and the art of the fold at the hip. The subtlety and fineness in her execution of both reward multiple viewings from multiple angles and repeated manipulation. Rainbow Alphabet Snowflake (2013) Rainbow Alphabet Snowflake (2013)Carol DuBoschStar book enclosed in flap purse. H4”x W5.5”x .D75” closed, W8.5” diameter…

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#Alphabet #Calligraphy #Carol DuBosch #Hedi Kyle #William Massey

[visualpractitioner]

3 Ways to Build Your Lettering library

Image is a slide from Make It Your Lettering Year

Here are 3 ways to collect and organize your letters:

Carol DuBosch shared her approach of using an address book when she taught us Jubilee in March.

We are inspired by Brandy Agerbeck’s “Stack Magic” approach to collecting information on index cards.

And the sketchbook, or better yet: travel sketchbook makes for a great way to capture your lettering inspirations.

Once you find a letter you love, you can also:

Identify the attributes of that letter.

Create an alphabet based on the attributes.

Scale the letter up and down.

Need more inspiration? We’ve had an inspiring year at Let’s Letter Together. From guest master calligraphers to community building.

Here are just a few of the courses you can still get access to:

Illuminating the Dark With Sharon Zeugin

Letters and Scissors and Paste, Oh My! With Mike Gold

Make It Your Lettering Year With Heather Martinez and guest calligraphers including Carol DuBosch, Elizabeth Walsh, Nancy Hays Hills, Margaret Beech, Tamer Ghoneim, Julie Wildman and more!

And unlimited access of some of top favorites from the archives. These courses feature even more experts from the field.

For the Love of Lettering

Lettering with the Masters

Listen, Letter, Draw Together

With so much inspiration, how will you choose? Share your lettering goals with me and I will point you in the right direction.

Until then, happy lettering!

Heather

#lettering #letteringclass #hand lettering #letslettertogether #letteringjourney

[visualpractitioner]

How Lettering Can Help You

It’s sounds a bit melodramatic when I say lettering saved my life. But I do give it a lot of credit for making it better.

After giving up my dream as a fine art, alternative process photographer (due to the symptoms related to the chemicals I was using), I deeply grieved my loss and threw myself into a career of becoming a visual practitioner. 

While being a visual practitioner didn’t give me the creative freedom I had as an artist, what I loved about it was the way writing down ideas manifested quickly into reality. Me writing down other people’s visions became true for them. Strategic visualization, coupled with Appreciative Inquiry became a very powerful tool I used in my work as a Visioneer and Visual Coach. But it didn’t become meaningful for me until I focused on my lettering. I didn’t start out with especially good handwriting, and I didn’t understand the letterforms beyond what I was taught in the 3rd grade.

I want to share 3 things I did to improve my lettering and my life that you can do too:

Make Your Own Exemplars


After learning a new lettering style, the practice of making your own exemplar will not only help you master the lettering style, but also help you make it your own. 
Mimicking someone’s handwriting can be dangerous on a psychological level. So first learn the attributes, how to hold the marker or pen (angle), stroke order and letterform. Then write some words and a pangram, and dive into making your own exemplar to use as reference. 

It will increase your ability and your confidence.

After being asked to be a Neuland Ambassador, I created a series of exemplars that other visual practitioners could use in their work and published a free online course called: Unlock Your Neuland Markers. Guido also translated my exemplars in German. You can find them here.

Practice Like You are Performing


Avoid practicing a page full of the same letter and write words as soon as possible. Practicing rote can help but only if you are are perfecting a form at a slow speed. For visual practitioners, it’s important to see the letter and transform it into a form that you can easily write with consistency at the speed you work. Yes, start at tabletop and go slow to get the letterform into your hand. When it’s time to take it to the wall, be sure to start out slow, stay grounded in your body, and speed up until you find your natural rhythm. Each marker has a speed, each lettering style has a speed, and you have a speed. Working to find that rhythm will help you when you get in front of your client.



Shortly after the Pandemic started, I offered lettering meditations sessions. No audio, we just lettered together. These were slow meditative sessions. By working slow, I am able to build a strong foundation so I can go fast. You can learn more here: https://youtu.be/fCKQ9xopjEE

Letter With Others


That means take lettering classes and workshops and letter with family, co-workers and friends. Just like letters: they are meaningless until they live in relationship with other letters. The same goes for us too. We all have lettering in common, or we did at some point. Bring it back to life and bring life to your letters by allowing yourself to learn and be influenced by others.



I highly recommend taking classes that align with your lettering goals. I offer a variety of classes for visual practitioners and calligraphers at www.LetsLetterTogether.com and one of my mentors, Carol DuBosch (www.CarolDuBosch.com) offers several lettering classes and she is an excellent teacher.

What else is new?

Well I haven’t been active lately as I caught the Coronavirus. You can read about that adventure here.

I had to cancel my in-person classes for the month but will be starting up again in July. You can learn more and sign up on AirBnB Experiences here.

Since Covid took me down and I'm working to automate a few of my classes, there is still time to get in on the introductory offer at Tech Host Academy before I automate my marketing plan.

I'd love to hear what's new with you. Having Covid changed how I look at the world and my place in it. I'm looking forward to feeling better and getting back into the studio to letter.

Hope to letter with you soon!

#letslettertogether #letteringjourney #lettering

[visualpractitioner]

Change...

Are you ready for change?

I love this quote by John C. Maxwell:

Change is inevitable... growth is optional.

Because change is going to happen no matter what, it’s up to us to determine how we want to handle, react to, or manage it.

In my early 20s I was resistant to change because I didn’t know how to manage it. Then after 20 years of working at it then being on a change management team for 3 years, I now have the tools to surf change like a pro. And in some cases even prompt it if needed. Maxwell goes on to suggest...

To grow you must see the value in yourself to add value to yourself and others.

You have to want to grow and change. Sure, change will happen eventually but one thing I have noticed in myself and others who are trying to figure out where they are in the midst of so much unprecedented ambiguity and change is they don’t know their value and/or may not be expressing or demonstrating it to others. I’m watching a lot of my visual practitioner colleagues leave the field and others struggling to stay in it. And I have wondered (with gratitude) why this past year has been easier for me than most and more successful than any previous year of my career. I distilled it down to 3 things that are applicable to anyone and can be repeated and scaled. And one differentiator.

3 Simple Steps you can take to apply value to your practice so you may grow:

Take inventory of your skills and strengths.

Determine what is needed in the world right now and what aligns with your desires.

Start expressing your value right away! On the next call, email you write, or project you propose, highlight what you will bring (skills and strengths)and how that will help your client meet their needs.

+1 Differentiator

I reviewed my emails and notes since March 2020 and I found that I applied Steps 1 & 2 in the first month of the pandemic and have been applying Step 3 since. After talking with a few trusted colleagues who have experienced varying degrees of success this year, I realized my differentiator is that I have been preparing for this moment most of my adult life. No, I didn’t know there would be a pandemic, but I have been training for a time when “Plan A” wouldn’t work out. Nor Plan B so I went to Plan Z. And that’s Steps 1 & 2. The cool thing is, anyone can do these three steps anytime, starting now. And if you start now, you can have the same differentiator in the future. So while the world changes around us, we have a choice. Where do we want to grow and when do we want to start? If you oftentimes see the world as a fast moving carousel and aren’t sure when to hop on, the idea can be dizzying. That’s why I offer 1:1 coaching and have created a series of workshops to help parse out what’s possible by sharing my methods. I will be focusing on these more this year and funneling a few of the courses I have offered in the past into new efforts. Want to learn more? Check out Appreciative Productivity or learn more about how I facilitate here. While the Deep Dive is over, Jill Greenbaum and I are considering offering it again in the fall.

Helping others change... Take a moment to think about how a mentor, role model, or coach has profoundly impacted your life. My mind immediately goes to Carol DuBosch and the many times something she said or did made me think, “Whoa!”  Or how each time she placed a bee tool in my hand changed the trajectory of my career. Carol is one of the lettering sweethearts from For the Love of Lettering and Lettering with the Masters and is the inspiration behind the Giving and Receiving page AND has inspired many to do the same. I used to volunteer my time to teach lettering to the homeless in my community as a way to relax, focus and as part of a culinary program for those studying to become bakers and decorate cakes. Now because of the pandemic, I don’t have access to that community so I’m seeking out those who lack accessibility. I need your help! If you know of someone who would benefit from the inherit benefits of lettering, please send them my way. To learn more about my scholarship program, please click here.  

Talking about change... I have recently taken on the role, Director of Design and Visualiztion at Kadabra. It’s been my dream to be part of a women-led team that utilizes my skills as a visual and virtual facilitator. The company’s values are closely aligned with my own and I’m continually pinching myself when I meet with these women leaders. They are my mentors, colleagues and friends.

At the same time, this new role is taking up more of my time and so I wanted to announce that I will still be offering live sessions on Tuesdays but you may be seeing even less of me on social media and other online appearances. It’s time to do the work needed for society and humanity. This March and April may be the last time I offer these classes this year. I don’t know if I will offer them again in the future. So if you missed out on the last two European Lettering Tours and want in on what I shared there before it goes away, please sign up for the upcoming courses. I’m offering them as a bundle: Lettering Back-to-Basics Vacay + Level Up Your Lettering

That's right, buy Level Up and get Back-to-Basics free. SAVE $100USD by using the coupon code: 100FRIEND

NOTE: Lettering Back-to-Basics starts Tuesday! I have no European Lettering Tours planned for the future. I do have a trip to Germany and the UK planned when it’s safe to travel again. But the workshops I will be offering are much different than I have ever offered before. So this is the last time I will be teaching my hierarchy formula in this way. Learn more here. And of course you can still letter with me every month In Make It Your Lettering Year. Hint: the same coupon code gets you $100USD off too! 100FRIEND

The seeds have been planted and nourished. The seedling has broken out of its casing and is about to break the surface of the earths crust. And when it does, it’s up to us to determine the direction in which it will grow. Despite its speed, change is inevitable. What steps are you taking today in order to manage it so that you may grow? I’d love to know what’s working for you.

#lettering #calligraphy #growth #change #values #planting seeds #Carol DuBosch

[visualpractitioner]

3 Tips for Improving Your Handwriting

In celebration of Handwriting Day, celebrated annually on January 23, here are a few tips to help you.

1  Find the right tool for the job


If you are interested in lettering or improving your handwriting but don’t make letters for a living or as a hobby, you might be wondering what type of tool is best for you. Chances you prefer monoline tools like pencils or a specific type of pen: fountain, rollerball, felt tip, etc.

Experienced Calligraphers may have a handful or a studio full of favorite tools that include broad edge, brush, pointed pen, and many other tools.

Beginning Calligraphers may have a few tools they like based on the scripts or styles they know. Many calligraphers purchase their tools here.

Visual Practitioners who work with markers on paper have professional-grade markers manufactured by Neuland available to them in many different nibs, sizes, colors, and types of ink.


2 Take your time and make the time to learn, improve and grow


While Visual Practitioners work very quickly, they first need to learn:
lettering style forms that will support their rapid capture style
body dynamics for how they will be working and the muscle groups they need to engage to have repeatable, scalable letters that are legible
eye/hand coordination at different speeds of working


Calligraphers work very slowly to learn and master letterforms that require a lot of control.
 This results in beautiful artwork or decoration.

For adults who want to improve their handwriting, they can benefit from learning just one lettering style to inspire and influence their lettering style. I recommend learning How to Write like an Architect or Italic from Carol DuBosch.

3 Embrace your personal style


We have been writing letters since before we started making memories. So we have some letters that we have written the same our entire life. However, there are some letters that vary each time we write them. You can aspire to make your letters consistent and a great way to start is to learn the most common letters used in your language. 
The most common letters used by English natives are ETAOIN SHRDLU. You can find common letters used by other languages here.

What is your favorite tool to write with? Who do you write for: for you or others? What would you say is your biggest joy of writing?

For more information on how to improve your handwriting and lettering skills, check out www.LetsLetterTogether.com. I hope to letter with you soon!

#handwriting #lettering #tools

[visualpractitioner]

What Being Graphic Recorded by Someone You Admire Is Like

Last year at this time, I saw a call for guests on the Visual Friends podcast online. I new who Marcel van Hove of Visual Friends was from my research of bikablo trainers in preparation for the workshop I delivered in Cologne as part of the 2019 European Lettering tour. He didn’t attend the training, so I had to admire him from afar.

When I read the call I was nervous about the prospect of being accepted or rejected. I wrote the email and let go of all expectations. When Marcel asked me to schedule a time, I was elated. Just weeks later my astrologer, Cassandra Leoncini, advised that I prepare to step onto the world stage.

During the call I shared a lot of personal experiences and my approach to living a value-based life. In that call Marcel asked me on the spot to be the keynote speaker at VizConf 2019. You can listen to the recording here. I talk about what it feels like to be graphic recorded.

Me: That is a beautiful “S!” Who made it? John: Alice. Me: I have to meet her! John: You will.

Upon arriving at VizConf, I asked where to find Shelley who was running the Graphic Gear store so I could sign books and let people try out the Orbits and Hexits. On the way I spotted the most fabulous “S” and I knew I was in the right place. I found out just a few hours later that Alice Edy volunteered to graphic record my closing keynote presentation.

Alice approached me in the hall and asked if she could have a moment with me. I didn’t know her name at the time but she said she was graphic recording me later that day. We were several minutes into our talk when I asked her name and was elated that she was the one that was graphic recording me! An excellent calligrapher and text worker in her own right, I told her how much I loved her “S” and shared attributes about Architect, Sign Painter and gestural writing. She picked it up immediately of course. I have to admit I snuck a peek at her working during my presentation and she was using all those lettering styles in her graphic recording. I couldn’t have asked for a better partner for the presentation as I admire her and her work so much.

Pictured above left to right/top to bottom: “S” in the This Way sign; Alice graphic recording me quoting my mentor Carol DuBosch “The Letter ‘S’ is a problem to be solved”; Alice’s portrait of me ;) ; Alice graphic recording my closing keynote; a quick selfie I captured during my presentation; Alice’s graphic recording of my talk. Such a great capture, I will treasure it forever!

I am honored to have been graphic recorded by Alice Edy at VizConf 2019.

“You can’t be brave without being scared.” —Alice Edy

You can hear her interview with Visual Friends here.

#graphic recording #vizconf #Alice edy #podcast #visual friends