Carol Kemp | Lettering for Publishing
The Galley Club meeting on Tuesday 1 June 2021
Venue: in the comfort of your own home
Registration: this event is in the past
Carol Kemp talked about her work as a freelance lettering artist, calligrapher and type designer, working effectively not only in the publishing industry, but also packaging and other regimes/
During a career of over thirty years, Carol has created title lettering and author branding for over 800 book covers including Philip Pullman, Marian Keyes and Margaret Atwood. During that time, many processes have changed, but some have endured and she will show examples of early work produced on board with ink, through to digital artwork, with the variety of techniques and tools used.
A passion for lettering that started in her early teens with an Osmiroid penset and Letraset catalogues brought home by her father, an engineering draughtsman, led Carol to specialise in lettering at Exeter College of Art & Design. She graduated in 1987 with a BA(Hons) in Graphic Design, and has worked freelance ever since, producing lettering, logos and fonts for design, TV, music, packaging and publishing.
If you spread Utterly Butterly on your Kingsmill and have a McCain chip butty with a glass of Hobgoblin, or Jacob’s Creek, on the side; or in these lockdown days, as baking has become a passion, you may be acquainted with Allinson’s yeast sachets, then you are already familiar with Carol’s work.
Her first font on general release was Party, created for Letraset in 1993.
Alongside her lettering for print, Carol has an interest in lettercarving, sculpture, textiles and balloon twisting. Carol was Chairman of The Wynkyn de Worde Society in 2020, the year that also saw publication of her first illustrated picture book, The Little Asteroid, by Nicolai Schümann.
