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How I learn to animate lettering

Maybe I owe it all to Instagram. If the algorithm hadn’t started favoring videos, moving pictures wouldn’t have interested me at all. But then I saw more and more lettering animations – and I wanted to be able to do that, too.

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Shame Parade

Pride. I never got it. I am not proud of being queer. Just like I’m not proud of being white or being German. Why be proud of something that isn’t my choice?

Regale mit Archivkisten von Chris Campe

How to Archive Your Lettering

For a long time I drew on paper out of principle, but after more than ten years as an illustrator and designer I no longer knew where to put all the work. What should I throw out, what should I keep? I decided to create a proper archive.

Die besten Letteringbücher von früher – Buchtipps von Chris Campe

5 Favorites:
Vintage Lettering-Books

Lettering hasn’t just been around since yesterday, and old books often explain the basics of lettering design more clearly than today’s. These are five vintage books I always have on hand.

Drawing from the Daily Project »You Look Like the Right Type« by Mark Addison Smith

Every Day for 13 Years

Every day, Mark Addison Smith illustrates a phrase he overheard someone say. He hasn’t skipped a single day since November 23, 2008.

Stempel-Muster aus dem Daily Project von Chris Campe, 2022

Why Do a Daily Project?

In Febuary I started another 100-day project and while I’m working on 100 days of patterns, I am thinking about what creative challenges are good for.