Calligraphy - writing as an art

This large-format and full-color work introduces you step by step to the art of beautiful writing. Create greeting cards, letters and documents in the style of the old masters! Create your own style with pen, ink and paper. All the essentials are explained simply with new, professional illustrations: fonts, decorative letters, color effects, nibs. Create posters, family trees, coats of arms and much more.

To top it all off, this book contains extra chapters on creating your own paper (including watermarks!), making your own notebook and even the ancient art of hand-binding books. Make your own unique book exactly as a book was made before the days of machine printing!

The Aachen-based author Nuesret Kaymak, born in 1967, is a state-certified graphic designer. He graduated from the Johannes Gutenberg School in Stuttgart, where he studied under Professor Robert Förch and the well-known graphic designer Manfred Sayer, among others. He has been working as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator since 1992.

96 pages, format: 24 x 24 cm, hardcover
Printed throughout in full color on high-quality, strong art paper