Posts Tagged ‘Issue 16’

ANGIE VANGALIS is a calligrapher and graphic designer living in Coppell, Texas. She designed and produced the Centennial (24th) Edition of the Speedball Textbook, and has directed three Legacies international calligraphy conferences. She is president of the Texas Lettering Arts Council (TXLAC), an organization lead and run by volunteers who believe in the mission of…

Claudia Ricci’s love for lettering and drawing began in 5th grade, when a Speedball set from her aunt opened up new ways of communication. Thereafter, all projects had decorated cover pages carefully done in India ink with crow quill and C-series nibs. Her propensity for illustration increased with signage and advertising jobs. A retired English…

Lindsay Ostrom lives in the mountains of Northern California with her husband and their crazy dog Charley. She works full time doing art, running an Etsy shop, managing several arts and crafts Facebook groups, and taking care of her elderly mom. She and her mom had worked together for thirty-two years at her retail store,…

Nico Ng is a lettering artist and designer from Manila, Philippines. His lettering journey started in 2014 and since then, he has worked with global brands, conducted talks and workshops on the international stage, and has sold thousands of his lettering rulers worldwide. Nico is passionate about challenging himself and other artists to push the…

Growing up in a family of artists and musicians in Northern California, Brenda Walton developed a passion for creative expression at an early age. She learned to paint, sew, and embroider from her New Zealand-born mother, and soon became enchanted by the transformative process of making things by hand. After earning a master’s degree in…

Lori Vliegen works and plays in a happy art place called Elvie Studio. She discovered a true passion for letterforms as a child when her Mom taught her how to write her name using a crayon. Since then, she’s spent many years studying and playing with the alphabet. Currently, she is combining her love of…

Anna Chiara Valentini was born in Paris and moved to Rome, where she studied and trained as an architect. She discovered, by chance, quilling art, a simple technique that involves the placement of carefully cut and bent strips of paper to make three-dimensional paper artworks. Passionate about calligraphy and lettering she decided to reinterpret the…