Adventures in Lettering by Dawn Nicole Warnaar

After I graduated, I discovered all of amazing fonts are pretty pricey and also that copyright and licensing can be confusing and gray, so I just started doing this with my own lettering. Q: What inspired you to get into typography, illustration, and hand-lettering?ĭuring my time at Sessions College, several of my instructors said I had a knack for mixing typography styles and that was just the bit of encouragement I needed to really fall in love with type. I’m really excited about this book since it’s almost exclusively on the art of lettering! I know a lot of schools have quit teaching penmanship and cursive, which is something I find incredibly sad, so I really hope this book inspires kids to practice lettering and opens their eyes to the ways you can make a career out of it. Section 5: Eight Inspirational Coloring Pages Section 4: Be the Designer (10 Hand-Lettering Based Design Projects) Section 3: Hand-Lettered Art Prints (10 Start to Finish Hand Lettered Art Prints) Section 2: Lettering Styles (12 Lettering Styles to Practice) Section 1: Playing with Type (8 Lettering Exercises) This is an overview of what it will contain: The planned release date is Septemand it’s currently on pre-order on Amazon. This book is called Adventures in Lettering: 40 Exercises and Projects to Master Your Hand-Lettering Skills. I am! I’m actually submitting all my final work to my publisher this coming week. Q: You’re launching your third book this fall-can you tell us about it? We connected with our talented graduate to discuss her success after graduation and the release of her book. Her passion for typography and hand-lettering evolved as she studied the fundamentals of lettering and gained a foundation in design.

Looking for a change in lifestyle that would satisfy her passion for creativity led her to Sessions College to pursue a Graphic Design Advanced Certificate with a concentration in Branding. Warnaar desired a flexible career to accommodate being an Air Force spouse. Once a successful Human Resource manager, Ms. Sessions College graduate Dawn Nicole Warnaar has firmly established her reputation as a successful author of hand-lettering and children’s art books with the release of her second creative book, Words to Live By under Walter Foster Jr., a division of Quarto Publishing.

Adventures in Lettering by Dawn Nicole Warnaar