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Skizzenbuchseite von Chris Campe mit Notizen über Animation

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.

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.

Interview mit Chris Campe auf »Design by Women«

Lettering and Gender

In an interview with »Design by Women«, I shared why I decided to specialize in lettering. Spoiler: It has to do with gender.