My first response...

Alison Carmichael

My first response was from Alison Carmichael, she explained to me that she really appreciated the fact that I was inspired by her work and had taken an interest to it and explained that she gets a lot of emails of students asking her similar questions so she gave me a set Q&A for me to have a read through and some of the stuff is really handy.

How did you become a hand lettering artist? what is your background?

I studied Graphic Design at Ravensbourne where at the time, they still taught a bit of hand lettering as part of the course. I specialised in hand lettering and calligraphy for my degree. After leaving college, I worked in various creative fields as a directors assistant, assistant art director, model maker, story board artist (a very bad one!) and then got a portfolio of hand lettering together and started going around to all the design consultants and ad agencies trying to get freelance work. Gradually I built up my client list and my range of styles and I have been doing this now for around about ten years.

Keetra Dean Dixon

I then heard back from Keetra Dean dixon, this was here response...

Interview from Siouxfire:

http://siouxwire-annex.blogspot.com/2006/07/interview-keetra-dean-dixon.html

Interview from file magazine:

http://file-magazine.com/features/keetra-dean-dixon

Alex Trochut

I then heard back from Alex Trochut, well his assistant and she was really helpful and gave me a link to websites where Alex has previously answered popular questions.

In Alex Trochuts email his assistant recommened looking at this website below which shows a previous interview from Trochut...

http://www.subaquatica.com/en/index.php/2007/12/03/alex-trochut/

I got this information below from :

http://www.designtaxi.com/article.php?article_id=100722

Design taxi:

http://think.faesthetic.com/?p=2388

“I think everything changes fast, and expires faster if you start feeling too attached to it.”

Alex Trochut has the advantage of being able to do anything. In a world where specificity, and uber-division of labor is not only the norm, but a growing pattern, we decreasingly find craftsmen and artists who can execute a wide array of design approaches. Aesthetically, his graphics and illustrations run the gamut from acid-dream liquid movements, to angular, symmetrically based work. In either case, proportion and space condone the art, and yield a poignancy that requires a closer look. Despite his obvious talent, it’s the concise and reliable nature of his art that makes him sought after by a diverse slew of clients; the spectrum of which is represented by everyone from indie-rockers The Decemberists, to corporate giants like Adidas and Nike. His versatility has opened doors to various projects, and inspires an evolutionary attitude toward his craft, his very own, “more is more” approach.

EL: You have an impressive list of clients. What type of work did you do when you started off?

AT: More or less the same stuff I’m doing today, illustration, lettering, graphic design…..

http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/003869.html

When I went to visit Alex Trochut in Barcelona I got the opportunity to see his studio and the environment that he works in and he told me a little bit about the work that he was doing at the moment which was a personal typographic brief. He also introduced me to Superveloz which was invented by his grandfather and his website is a great way of understanding how type is made and formed.