Hand-lettering Over Images

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Stefan Sagmeister is a famous Austrian Typographer and Designer who uses his handwriting over images to design artwork. He has worked with famous artists such as The Rolling Stones, the Talking Heads and Lou Reed, creating unique imagery with different layering techniques.


Using his work as inspiration, I created a design using a quote from Stefan himself layered over a picture of my choice. I chose the quote, "The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same as one trains ones body?", following the context I selected an image of someone standing on a running track. After completing some thumbnails and lettering designs, I printed the image and using tracing paper wrote the quote over the image following the shape of the shadow of the runner. I then wrote over the pencil design with ink to make it bold and add some varying line weights. I scanned the design into photoshop and layered it over the image and began playing with the layer image and blending techniques.


This is the original black ink placed over the shadow.


Here I adjusted the Hue and Saturation turning the font to white, helping it to standout.


In this case I adjusted the difference and the colour changed to a contrasting green similar to the other track.


In this design I changed the levels of the image giving it a red tone. 


Here, I used the overlay effect which gives the illusion that the type breaks the shadow, showing the brighter colours of the normal track underneath.

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