The Music: Death Cab for Cutie, Lambchop, Laura Veirs
The Drink: Coffee
The Weather: London Miserableness
The Mood: Perky (due to coffee not weather)
Essential Design Tools
Sustenance
.5mm pencil
ruler
plain white A4 paper
tracing paper
eraser
copies of font to be used for reference
set square
sticky tape
Layout
I’ll be engraving a copper plate, the print of which will be the size of a business card.
Measurements: 85mm x 55mm
Initially I drew a rough design that was 2:1 but from now on I will be working on a 1:1 scale as it is all too easy to draw a nice looking letter in a larger size only to render it illegible when reducing down to the actual size.
Here are two variations of my 2:1 design ideas (not final).
On a piece of white paper I have marked out a template of the business card. Then I marked out halfway points and a border.
I placed the tracing paper over this template stuck it down with tape so it doesn’t move about and now I can start laying out the letters on the tracing paper with the template as a guide underneath it. This way if I mess up I only have to re-draw the lettering on a new sheet of tracing paper and not the whole template.
Now I'm ready to get drawing.