ABOUT THIS EVENT

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Business & Technology

Event Overview

Join us for an evening with lettering designer and author, Martina Flor, at Skillshare's headquarters in NYC!

Martina will dive into the craft of drawing letterforms, walking the audience through her working method, including both analog and digital tools. She'll share her process from concept to sketch to final artwork. Martina will then go beyond her process to walk through challenges she faced at becoming a lettering artist, and highlight some of her own side projects that helped her improve her skills and grow her audience. She will share her experience of teaching letter design to global audiences and unveil her set of essential standards for quality artwork. Audience Q&A to follow the talk. Space is limited, so register now!

Martina Flor combines her talents as both a designer and an illustrator in the drawing of letters. Based in Berlin, she runs one of the world’s leading studios in lettering and custom typography, working for clients all over the globe such as The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, HarperCollins, Monotype, Etsy, Adobe, Mercedes Benz, Lufthansa, and Cosmopolitan, among many others.

Martina Flor earned her Master’s in Type Design from the esteemed Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, The Netherlands. Since then she has dedicated a large part of her time to teaching lettering and type design. Martina travels extensively within and outside Europe to help designers cultivate their skills through workshops and to present her work and insights at conferences, such as TEDx and Adobe MAX.

 

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