The Art of Lettering: Modern Calligraphy in Four Easy Steps

by Stefan Kunz

Creative lettering styles are everywhere – on stationery, adverts, tea towels, wall art and cafe chalkboards to name just a few. This stylish, interactive book will make modern calligraphy accessible and fun – and you’ll only need a pen or pencil to get started.The book shows how to create cool hand lettering in three easy steps and features inspirational quotes in different hand-written styles, each with their own DIY page, which can be copied and incorporated into your own personal style. The aim of the book is to work with your individual handwriting to develop unique letterforms that can be used in a variety of craft and art ideas. The final section of the book is full of fun hand lettering projects from greetings cards to wedding stationery, and from posters to chalk board decorations for your home to showcase your new lettering skills.

Genres: Art

160 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2017

Reviews

[Maggie · Rating 1 out of 5]

So very, very basic. Most of the book is lined pages for you to practise and copy onto.

[Daily · Rating 3 out of 5]

Less of a learning material more of a reference material or premade letter designe. Rated 3/5 as it’s marketed as how-to material

[Sharon · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book review for today is “The Art of Hand Lettering for Beginners:Beautiful Projects and Essential Techniques” by Joanna Munoz. This book falls in the genre of art and calligraphy.

Have you received a note and the person who has sent it wrote beautifully with what I call fancy writing? Enter this book.

It gives you:

-8 sample alphabets that gives you stroke by stroke instructions and a space to practice each set.

–20 projects that include thank you cards, wrapping paper, bunting and place cards just to name a few.

–Create your own alphabet that helps you creative your own style of writing to make it your own.

Each project gives you a list of items you will need to do it plus more than one method to do that project. The step by step instructions will get you started on your way to creating lovely items.

I thoroughly loved this book. As someone who has taken a calligraphy class to now expand it to a whole new level is exciting to me. The instructions are clear to understand. The fonts of the letters that you look at to practice are a nice size to where you can see what they are trying to show you to do. What was really nice is they have downloadable practice sheets that I can print out so I can practice as much as I want. That is on page 16.

I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

[Viktoria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Нищо особено. Има доста книги за Калиграфия и шрифт, които сякаш някои хора смятат че като притежават,притежават и нужните умения за това- без много практика и с едно нещо което или го имаш или го нямаш... и да се скъсаш няма да умееш да го правиш дори просто добре.
Не е от нужните книги за хора които се занимават със шрифт и калиграфия в дизайн-а.

[Víctor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Even if it has a good collection of great examples and I appreciate Stefan Kunz's art, the book itself doesn't do a great job of teaching lettering from scratch.