A Student Guide with Teacher's Manual

Students
Do you want to learn to write graffiti? This is the book you need.

Find out how to:
• design your own letter style
• use effects to create a unique tag
• create throw-ups
• include fills and motifs
• paint wildstyle, bubblestyle and blockbusters
• build up large burners
• handle a spray can
• get your work up safely and legally


Teachers
This is the book you need if you want to teach graffiti.

It contains:
• plans for lessons on graffiti – theory and practice
• practical advice for staging safe, hands-on graffiti lessons
• guidance on marking students’ work
• resources covering the origins and cultural history of graffiti
• clear step-by-step explanations to suit students of all abilities
• exercises and solutions

Christoph Ganter, who teaches in Stuttgart, is an experienced graffiti artist who works under the tag ‘Jeroo’. In 2011 he contributed to the book Street Fonts: Graffiti Alphabets from Around the World, which was also published by Thames & Hudson.


29.70 x 21.00 cm, Paperback with flaps, 176pp, With over 300 illustrations, 101 in colour.

A Beginner's Workbook for the Creative Art of Drawing Letters

Learn the basics of letterforms and styles, tools and materials, and practice eight different alphabets created exclusively for this book. With step-by-step instructions and exercises, this workbook will guide you through the process of learning the techniques and skills necessary to create beautiful, unique lettering.

Hand Lettering and Beyond suits all ages and is a great tool for advertisers, home stylers, school teachers, creative kids and adults alike.You’ll learn the basics of letterform structure, spacing and alignment, and progress to more advanced techniques where you will be able to design your own beautiful letters as well as creating letter images with composition and decorative embellishments that make your text stand out.

Whether you’re a beginner or looking to improve your existing lettering skills, this workbook is an excellent way to release your creativity. Explore the medium, be creative, make an impact and immerse yourself in the world of letters, design and shapes.

Hand Lettering and Beyond is the fundamental guide for you to learn how to master the alphabet with style and finesse, letter by letter, until you are able to put together complicated words and messages, adding the colouring of your own choice.

Sofie Björkgren-Näse is an experienced lettering artist. She is a full-time freelance letterer who have created lettering work for numerous international companies and shared the joy of hand lettering with thousand of workshop participants.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to elevate your hand lettering to the next level!

Author: Sofie Björkgren-Näse

ISBN 9789188369802

20 x 25 cm

A rich source of inspiration for anyone interested in do-it-yourself culture.

Graffiti Cookbook is a guide to the materials and techniques used within today’s most creative and progressive art movement. In hundreds of pictures and illustrations and a dozen of interviews with some of the world’s most famous artists the authors show how graffiti is made.

From spray techniques and hand styles to tools and style analysis, Graffiti Cookbook takes us on a trip around the world in the search of the tricks and trades of graffiti writers. After hundreds of books filled with pictures of graffiti published in the last few years finally one is showing how the artists work.

Graffiti Cookbook is filled with tips and examples of how to create your own piece, tag and throw up. These techniques can be used on all kinds of materials, textile, glass, metal, concrete or wood. Graffiti Cookbook gives an unique insight in the alternative art world and is a rich inspiration source for those interested in do-it-yourself-culture.

Swet, Jurne, Mad C, Skil, Egs and Chob are some of the featured artists in the book.

Pages: 140 pages, Softcover.

Author: Jennifer Perkins

Remake the ordinary into the extraordinary—crafts for kids ages 8 to 12

Watch kids' eyes light up as they roll up their sleeves and transform ordinary items. Upcycle It! Crafts for Kids shows tweens how to take objects destined for the recycling bin and breathe new life into them to make room decor, organizers, school supplies, and so much more.

What sets this apart from other kids' activity books:

25 purposeful projects - Exciting arts and crafts like Awesome Earbud Case, Cute Critter Cardboard Hangers, and Splatter Paint Sunglasses allow kids to create something that is both useful and fun to make.

Easily accessible supplies - The crafts in this book repurpose everyday items you likely have lying around, so there's no need to spend lots of money or schedule a trip to the store.

Clear instructions - Kids will have no trouble tackling these crafts thanks to simple directions that are paired with beautiful pictures to guide them through the process. Inspire ingenuity and eco-friendly habits with Upcycle It! Crafts for Kids.

ISBN: 9781638071327
Imprint: Callisto Kids
Format: Paperback
Pages: 114

Screenprinting is in the midst of a popular revival among beginners, students, hobbyists and experts alike. This is the essential studio workbook, built upon the expertise gained through the thousands of classes taught by the team at Print Club London over the last decade. The information on materials and techniques, along with tips and insights, including what to do if something doesn’t go to plan, will ensure today’s creatively minded screenprinters will be able to produce eye-catching work of their own. The book also gives valuable advice to the budding screenprinter on how to organise an exhibition or screenprinting event and promote and sell their work.

Here both basic principles and advanced techniques are clearly presented to show how the very best contemporary work has been printed. Inspirational step-by-steps with leading artists, illustrators and designers, such as Ben Eine and Rob Ryan, are included. In each step-by-step original work is created to showcase a key process or technique such as hand-cut stencils, colour blending and mono printing.

Deliciously fresh and visual, with specially commissioned photographs and authored by a vibrant, creative group working and teaching at the very epicentre of the contemporary screenprinting scene, this book is the complete modern guide for screenprinters of all levels of knowledge and skill, and will have a vital presence in their studios and workshops.

About the Author -
Print Club London is a leading print studio specialising in the art, practice, teaching and exhibition of screenprinting. Established in 2007, and now with over 500 members, as well as providing studio space and selling design pieces, Print Club works with clients on projects ranging from bespoke bags for Stella McCartney to live printing projects in stores with Nike.

Paperback with flaps, 29 x 21 cm, 288 pages

Learn the history and techniques of hand lettering from a renowned design studio. This practical and visual guide features exercises, case studies, and typographic models for letter styles such as serif, sans serif, brush, and script--now featuring a new and improved binding.

Learn the history and techniques of hand lettering from a renowned design studio. This practical and visual guide features exercises, case studies, and typographic models for letter styles such as serif, sans serif, brush, and script.

Known throughout the world for its eclectic typeface collections and far-reaching creative exploits, from fonts and fashion to ceramics and space technology, House Industries has been a standard bearer for American graphic design for more than twenty-five years. The House Industries Lettering Manual is an accessible hands-on guide to drawing letters from Ken Barber, House's head letterer and type design director.

Modeled after a series of sold-out lettering workshops that Ken has conducted around the world, this highly illustrated handbook outlines the history of lettering, various methods and techniques, common letter styles, and best practices for getting paid for your work. This handy how-to guide also provides lettering models to help sharpen your drawing skills and offer departure points for further experimentation. Designed by House Industries and including copious examples, exercises, and opportunities to practice what you've learned, plus photographs of works-in-progress and finished projects, this instructive and visually engaging book will help you master the dynamic art of lettering, whether you're a budding artist or an experienced designer.

This handy how-to guide is chock-full of everything you need to know to produce professional hand-lettering—whether you’re an experienced artist interested in broadening your skills, or just a curious novice in need of an eye-catching yard sale sign. Jam-packed with detailed drawing techniques, convenient reference models, invaluable skill-building exercises, and real world case studies, House’s Chief Lettering Officer, Ken Barber, reveals the secrets for creating virtually any letter style in nearly every design scenario imaginable. Most important, you’ll learn simple and easy-to-use step-by-step methods for making alluring and effective lettering, all the way from concept to final execution.

• Written by Ken Barber
• Foreword by Jimmy Kimmel
• Preface by Andy Cruz
• 208 pages
• Lavishly illustrated
• Full-color printing with metallic and spot inks
• Ridiculous cover embossing
• 8.5″ × 11″ (216 × 280 mm)
• Endorsed by Barry Katz

Make your words beautiful and unique, with these elegant hand-lettering styles.

Professional hand-lettering artist Kate Forrester presents twenty-six of her most popular scripts in easy-to-follow exercises. Ranging from fluid calligraphic styles to antique mosaics, there's an alphabet here for every occasion. Display capitals, in bold colours, also appear, lifting this book far above the competition.

Paperback, 224 Pages, 165 x 135mm

Katja Haas introduces the exercise book to her book 'Hand Lettering'. This workbook contains 56 pages with compact basics, instructions for different fonts and, of course, a lot of practice space. So grab your pens and start lettering!

AUTHOR:
Since 2009, Katja Haas has been running her own design agency, where she creates high quality stationery for all occasions under her own label, Papier-Liebe, using her own letterpress printing technique. Always on the lookout for new trends for her stationery lines, Katja, who comes originally from the region of Styria in Austria, discovered hand lettering. As a self-taught artist, she is passionate about the creative variety offered by this technique. In her practically-oriented books, Katja Haas presents hand lettering as an art form suitable for everyone, which places no limits on personal creativity in terms of right or wrong."

Dimension: 270mm X 200mm, 56 pages.