Using Calligraphy for Different Projects

Video Transcript

"In this clip, I'll be showing you how you can use calligraphy to make beautiful works of art. You can make envelopes, invitations, or use it for poetry, or just about anything you can think of. This invitation was done in Italic Calligraphy and it's the cursive hand that we were just learning. The one next to it is combined with some other elements of paper and glitter and some metal. And this is also the Italic cursive. The envelope that is addressed to Steven Spielberg was done for the daughter of Paramount Studios executive and she had the color that you see, hand mixed for every single envelope, we did 300 of them. The other card is handmade paper, and that's uncial. The Chief Tecumseh piece is a beautiful saying and I did this in an uncial font because I felt like it fit the feel of this particular piece. This piece is the Martin Luther King "I Have A Dream" speech and the original was hand cut paper with both uncial and with Italic calligraphy and these were then printed and they are posters. This is the letter to the President by Chief Seattle, and this was done in a bookhand, which is a very legible font, very old hand, which is used for books, so that you can read the clearly. And I started each passage with an Italic letter, just to set it off, and then these were made into posters. You can also do business cards, stationary, you can incorporate calligraphy with graphic design and use it for all kinds of things."