INT-202: Creative Text

This course addresses different approaches to hand drawn words and images, including calligraphy and lettering, as applied to publishing, communicating an idea, and large format wall graphics for retail applications in a street environment. In this course calligrafitti muralist and lettering artist Peter Greco will lead you through the fundamentals required to achieve pure expression using oversized letters for interior or exterior murals. The skills absorbed in this intensive, fun course will enable students to express through design: identity, personal statements, social messages, to tell a story, to challenge conventional perceptions of word usage, to use letter forms in tandem with illustration or simply to fill wall space with typographic form, pattern and gesture. Students will learn to write Roman Monumental Capitols with flair and flourish, Street Style Gothic, Cursive Script (first with pen, then moving on to using wide brush). Students will also learn to draw modern block (Sans Serif). Suitable for illustration, design and fine art majors.