Luke lucas typographer artist biography
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Illustrative type specialist Luke Lucas began his love affair with the written word when, half way through the first year of his Melbourne School of Art diploma, he and a friend started an inline skate magazine called Fourinarow.
“We started that without really knowing anything,” admits Lucas from his home in Sydney’s northern beaches.
Luke lucas typographer artist biography
“We’d just been taught the basics of Adobe Illustrator and some basics in design theory but aside from that, we sort of taught ourselves how to use Quark Express and we picked the brains of a few different printers and ended up producing a print publication.
In that first year we produced a couple of editions of the magazine and decided to drop out of the course at the end of the year and pursue that business further. It ended up becoming quote successful and we distributed it to about 14 countries overseas in the end.
I guess it was through that magazine that I started to experiment with type and design.”
A few years after wrapping up that projec