Seb Lester is a type designer and calligrapher from East Sussex, who specializes in letterforms and typography. Today he came into Newcastle College to give a talk to the Creative Industries department. I had already heard of Seb Lester before he came to the college as I had seen his calligraphic prints in a gallery called Electrik Sheep in Newcastle, and as typography is an area of design that greatly interests me I found his presentation very inspiring.
He showed us several videos, firstly something he created at University as an animation project which is a music video to Super Sharp Shooter by The Ganja Kru. I enjoyed this video as it's a drum and bass classic, and it was an interesting way of seeing music represented through use of animated typography.
While employed at Monotype Imaging, Seb developed typefaces for brands including Waitrose, British Airways, The Daily Telegraph and more. He has created typefaces such as Neo Sans, Soho and Soho Gothic, and has an extraordinary talent in the form of calligraphy. He has produced work for Apple, Nike, Penguin, Ministry of Sound, Maxim.
A saying that is used in one of his videos, and he also said in the talk is being a calligrapher makes him a better type designer, and being a type designer makes him a better calligrapher. This shows he is very passionate about letterforms and devotes a lot of time to experimenting with them.
At the end of the talk I was very keen to start experimenting with calligraphy, but in the past I have been interested and not been able to find anywhere that supplies materials. So when Seb said he had a post on his tumblr for people wanting to get into calligraphy I had a look and now know what equipment is good for beginners so I will purchase some in the near future.
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