Lettering 2024

A series of lettering pieces done through that year, mainly by using procreate.

An art nouveau-ish lettering piece for the city of Nancy, with very ornate convoluted shapes, black letters on white background with light blue dropout shadow, some heraldic symbols in the corners in light grey (a fleur de lys, a bird, a thistle, a lion). Under the black lettering, a bright red bird skull as a drop of blood.

⚫ "Nancy" — "Flat 3D" lettering piece inspired by a visit to the baroque city of Nancy in autumn 2024. The symbols on the corners were inspired by some stone carvings seen in the city (see next post) while the letters where inspired of course by Place Stanislas but also by several ornaments around the city. Software used: Blender, Glyphs, Illustrator, After Effects. (November 2024).

New Orleans VS Paris

Lettering collaboration with Matthijs Herzberg of the Herzberg Design Co. The idea behind this collaboration is that we sent each other lettering sketches and then we could render them any way we wanted. I chose to make the art nouveau letters of "New Orleans" even more unreadable and to make everything look more liquid. The colours of honey, blood and water were combined for the final composition. Matthijs Herzberg's original sketch is also shown here.

Annecy

Neo-medieval take on the name of this beautiful city on the east of France.

Calligraphic lettering piece displaying the word Montereau in a single line way, like a rope was torn in order to write the word. The rendering of the letters looks like they have volume, the lettering is repeated twice vertically, once with red letters on black background and the second time with black letters on red background.

Montereau

A linear lettering hommage to Montereau-Fault-Yonne, drawn in Glyphs and 3D-modelled in Blender, with some cenital sun-like light effects. In November 2024 I had the pleasure to give a type design workshop at the lycée Lycée André Malraux located in this French city.

Por la boca muere el pez

One of my favourite Spanish sayings rendered as a wall painting, with E's sporting bars that look like hooks (you get it?).

The words Pachucho & Pachorra rendered in blue and red super droopy letters that look like they're falling down, with some small characters to represent the concepts and lots of sweat drops or tears falling from the word Pachucho.

Pachucho & Pachorra

Two of my favorite words in Spanish! Featuring super-droopy letters, with "a"s looking like they're slouching down.

A lettering piece featuring the phrase 'Je me sens mou' ('I feel weak' in French) on black colour against a textured clear background. The letters are round in the outside and angular on the inside. The background looks like the rugged surface of a wall.

Je me sens mou

Je me sens mou (I feel weak) - one phrase that comes often in conversations with type designers on Telegram :) In this particular piece there's a displacement map effect that alters the lettering according to the texture of the background. There's also a certain play between the shapes and the counters of the letters.

Lettering piece, textured red on white background, showing a skull with an enormous forehead and the words alter ego written on the skull, the letters are like a mix of art nouveau and hard rock kind of vibe, with lots of turns and corners and organic shapes.

Alter ego

Sometimes, there's an enemy within us. Lettering piece including a bifid G and a goat-eye O.

A black and white lettering piece and illustration depicting the word Bubango in all caps rendered in graffiti style with overlaping letters over a round object which is a mix between a bubango or Canarian courgette and a graffiti spray can.

Bubango!

BUBANGO is one of my favourite words in the Canarian way of speaking. It is a type of courgette that is quite round and has a very mild flavour. I have combined an illustration with graffiti-style letters; I am very interested in the fact that in graffiti the letters often touch each other, whereas in typography they tend to be distant. I think there is a lot of graphic potential in the design of overlapping letters.

Pink fuzzy female cat on a textured yellow background, the words Ataca Gata are written in a bubbly expressive lettering style, a thick black frame is around the picture. Poppy neon colours all around.

Ataca gata

Lettering and illustration piece based on some misheard Arca lyrics (the original says "ataja gata").

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