Meet the Business of Lettering Summit Speakers
Alanna Flowers
Efficient Workflows for Solo Artists
Alanna Flowers is a freelance lettering artist and designer based in New York, where she runs AGF Design Studio. As a lettering artist, she creates work using bold, playful lettering in a range of styles for brands like Adobe, The Los Angeles Times, American Greetings, and more. She is also the illustrator of the new book, "Love Letters: An Alphabet of Affirmations", through Little Bee Books.
Aurelie Maron
Boost your Lettering Biz with Creative ReelsÂ
Aurelie is a passionate lettering artist from the Gold Coast, Australia. Originally from New Caledonia, she relocated to Australia in 2010 to pursue a Bachelor of Digital Media at Griffith University. It was there that she discovered her love for typography and hand lettering.
Her mission is to inspire and educate her students to become professional lettering artists by guiding them to discover their own style and teaching them how to sell digital products.
Brittany W-Smith
Your Weirdness is your Secret Sauce
Brittany W-Smith has had a diverse career as a tattoo artist in Hawaii, a footwear designer for Vans in California, a digital nomad traveling coast-to-coast in her camper van, and many things before and after.Â
As a major art nerd and forever student (earning degrees in Fine Art, Illustration, Graphic Design, Graphic Communications, and Entrepreneurship), there aren’t many mediums she hasn’t tried.
Chelsie Tamms
Passion Projects to Profit: How One Project Generated $50,000+ For My Business
Chelsie Tamms is an artist, educator, and entrepreneur. She founded Lettering Works in 2016, combining her love of hand-lettering with her expertise in marketing. Since then, she’s grown her business to offer custom branding packages, courses for artists, and wholesale products and merchandise—all with the mission to bring more creativity into her community and beyond. She is especially drawn to cause-driven projects surrounding mental health, chronic illness, and underrepresented communities.
Dominique Falla
Using Archetypes for Your Personal Brand
Hey there! I’m Dominique, an Australian Design Educator and the Founder of Typism.
My Creative Superpower is helping people discover who they are and what they should be doing with their lives.
I am currently obsessed with building an online community that helps creative professionals be valued for their work. I created the free Business of Lettering Summit to bring the Typism Community together to help you improve your freelance business and transition to more sustainable business models.
Find Me Lettering
Event Brand Activations
Resiliency is both an attitude and a practice.
Vanisha Singh is on this entrepreneurship journey, leaving her mark as the owner of Find Me Lettering, elevating brands, and showcasing her calligraphic brilliance in Lifestyle Brands, Children's books and Netflix. Through Calligraphy, her main platform, she guides entrepreneurs in crafting unique brand experiences. Her artistic touch has enchanted clients like Hudson Bay, Diptyque, and Netflix.
Ines Cermak
Positive Creative Mind: Create a Card
Ines Cermak known as callinigraphy. Ines loves crafting cards combining various techniques and different types of media. She loves craft paper and enjoys creating simple, yet convincing designs, which should inspire everyone to grab pen and paper and thus getting creative themselves. She has a supportive community in Austria as well as Germany and offers free tutorials as well es online workshops.
Irene Lee
Getting on the Radar of Your Dream Clients
Irene, an award-winning stationery designer and owner of Rintzylee Designs, transitioned to a full-time event artist. Frustrated with her lack of quality leads, she spent two years trying to improve her website results. Eventually, she turned to outreach strategies, which successfully grew her clientele, including brands like Prada, Jimmy Choo, Ferragamo, and Saint Laurent.
Seeing many creatives face similar challenges, Irene launched her mentorship program, Curated to Create, to teach outreach strategies and help calligraphers connect with their dream clients.
Jaz, Your Pricing Queen
Downstrokes to Dollars
Known to clever creatives as "Your Pricing Queen", Jaz is the secret weapon of hundreds of freelancers who are charging more dollary-doos for their creative genius. With a passion for payment and a flair for the food-based analogy, Jaz knows exactly what to serve to satisfy both your creative pursuits and your bank balance.
Jessica Molina
Art with Authenticity: Crafting Your Unique Creative Voice
Jessica Molina is a Nicaraguan-American lettering artist and illustrator based in Dallas, Texas. Known for her vibrant and bold style, she has worked with brands like Target, Snapchat, Sol de Janeiro, and Toyota. Her mission is to empower artists to be themselves unapologetically, believing that authentic personal expression is key to professional success.
Jillian and Jordan, Loveleigh Loops
How We’re Growing Our Calligraphy Membership in 2024
Jillian and Jordan, the twin sister founders of Loveleigh Loops, started teaching calligraphy online in 2017. Fast forward to today, they have taught over 45,000 students in their iPad lettering courses and calligraphy membership. They have so many tips and strategies to share from running a successful online business for 7+ years.
Jimbo Bernaus
10 Lettering Styles to Help You Craft a Client-Ready Portfolio
Jimbo Bernaus is a seasoned graphic designer turned full-time lettering artist and illustrator, with over a decade in the creative industry. Seven years ago, he co-founded Shoutbam, a creative studio in Croatia and Spain, with his partner, Tea. Their studio specialises in digital products for Procreate, Photoshop, and Affinity Designer. Jimbo has collaborated with prominent brands like Booking.com, Espresso Displays, Affinity Designer, and Carlsberg. He is also dedicated to education through live sessions and their Educational Lab, where he conducts long-format tutorials every month.
Kim Tran-Flores & Mark Flores
How To Attract High-Profile Clients Without Spending A Fortune On Marketing
Established by wife & husband duo Kim and Mark, Kimlligraphy is a premier destination for live and in-studio calligraphy personalisation in Australia. With a nationwide team of over 30 skilled creatives, they've assisted 190+ high-profile brands like MECCA and Meta. Their online training program, with over 600 students, helps lettering artists enhance their skills, marketability, and professional growth.
Kristen De Palma
The Art of Strategy: Think like a marketer to land your ideal clients
Kristen, an award-winning lettering and mural artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, left her corporate marketing career in 2021 to pursue her passion. She has created over 50 murals and worked on various design projects, offering in-person and online workshops, including a Skillshare class.
Inspired by Victorian design, Kristen launched To & From Gift Co., selling floriography seed packets across North America. She lives in Halifax with her husband, Justin, and their rescue dogs, enjoying antique shops and true crime documentaries in her free time.
Lisa Siefert
Become a Template Designer—Template Express Workshop
Lisa is a self-taught graphic designer who specializes in creating planner layouts and templates. She is a die hard New Yorker with a deep spiritual connection to anything on the Hallmark Channel and Peppermint Hot Chocolate.
Marie Sasso
Visualize Your Business: Branding for Creatives
Marie Sasso is a French graphic designer and brand identity consultant based in Germany, specializing in creating compelling visuals that elevate brands. With a keen focus on branding and print products, Marie thrives on challenges that demand creativity and innovation.
She understands that having a great product is only part of the equation for business success; it also needs a story and a visual identity to truly shine. In her upcoming workshop, Marie will share actionable insights and proven strategies, guiding participants through the essentials of visual branding to ensure their brands are seen and remembered.
Martina Flor
MAKE IT: Turn Your Creative Skills into a Business and Thrive Doing What You Love
Martina Flor is an award-winning Lettering Artist, Author, and Educator. She has worked for numerous high-profile clients globally, spoken at dozens of design conferences, and established a successful business in the field of lettering and custom typography.
Over 100,000 people have used her books, courses, tools, and coaching to master hand lettering and make a living with their skills.
Mirage of Ink
Create & Host Successful Workshops
Known as Mirage of Ink, LĂ©a De Mira Godinho is a calligrapher, lettering artist and muralist based in France. Through her cheerful murals, sign paintings, event stationery and live calligraphy services, she helps brands and businesses have greater impact and be memorable ! She loves hosting creative workshops to share her passion for letters and encourage others to nurture their own creativity.
Natalie Brown
Designing a Greeting Card
Natalie is the illustrator and designer behind Threeologie, her design studio. With extensive business experience, she helps other creatives learn to leverage their creativity and build their own businesses. Her portfolio includes collaborations with brands like The Coffee Bean, Disney, and Rihanna. Join her to transform your art into a successful business!
Noeko
Social Media for Lettering Artists
Obsessed with words and their power, Noeko has built a brand and career centred around lettering in both literal and abstract forms.
She owns a private tattoo studio, Haus of Hel, and has worked with many bands and brands on logo and merchandise designs.Â
Riri TamuraÂ
Designing Your Success: Income Streams as a Creative Freelancer
Riri Tamura Kim is a designer and illustrator specializing in hand lettering. She is also an instructor where she occasionally teach workshops in California.
In her career, she has worked with global brands from various industries like Twitter Studio, Postmates, Orangetheory, Walmart, Adobe, Western Digital, Cash App by Square, Period.org and more.
Sanmitra Chitte
Pitching for Funds Â
Sanmitra is a forward-thinking design expert with over 20 years of experience in design, innovation, and design thinking. She founded a design studio and works in Strategic Design Management at the National Institute of Design. With a diverse educational background, including pharmacy, animation, graphic design, and design management, she is an IIM research scholar and trained ZMET interviewer. Sanmitra advocates for women's empowerment through education and self-help and emphasizes the importance of design management in future technologies. As a domestic violence survivor, she shares her story to inspire resilience and rebuilding.
Shelby Abrahamsen
Bounce Lettering Basics
Shelby Abrahamsen, known for her site Little Coffee Fox, teaches lettering, watercoloring, and drawing with an empathetic approach, having faced creative blocks herself. She has collaborated with brands like Pilot, Disney, and Avery, and co-founded the creative education platform Foxsy. Since becoming a full-time creative professional in 2016, Shelby has been dedicated to helping others unlock their creative potential, earning recognition in HuffPost, Buzzfeed, and the Wall Street Journal.
Tamer Ghoneim
Unlocking Passive Income: The Power of Assets Over Hours
Tamer Ghoneim is a professional calligraphy artist and instructor passionate about helping creative dreamers bring their love of letters to life.
Tamer is on a mission to make the art and business of calligraphy accessible to all.
www.blackletterfoundry.com
Vera Drmanovski
How to Define Your Niche
Vera is a lettering artist and illustrator, known for her meticulous attention to detail. Her work shines through intricate designs that bring stories to life. Drawing inspiration from her love of books and nature, she gives her work a unique perspective. Specializing in book covers and exclusive book editions, Vera adds a touch of magic to her work. Vera has worked with many great clients such as Penguin Random House, Audible UK, The Bookish Box, and OwlCrate, among others.
Vinitha Mammen
Crafting Compelling Proposals: How to Put Together an Effective Client Proposals
Vinitha Mammen is an independent lettering artist, illustrator, muralist and educator. She helps businesses express themselves with pretty, playful lettering, fun stylised illustrations, and bold colour palettes.
Vinitha is passionate about gender equality, women’s rights, self-love and body positivity. She is a Top Teacher on Skillshare, and her work has been featured in noteworthy lettering publications.
Viv Castillo
Crafting Confidence
Viv is an accomplished calligrapher and engraver who loves to create unique and beautiful keepsakes from her studio in Melbourne, Australia, and on-site at events and brand activations. She is also dedicated to teaching handwriting and calligraphy to improve mental health, and, being a #stationeryaddict, she is always keen to nerd out about calligraphy tools!
Xian Garnier
Be BOLD, Be YOU: Navigating social media with authenticity and confidence!
Xian, known as the 'Awkward Creative' from Kaizen Kreative, has transformed from a former introverted social weirdo to a certified oversharer on social media. Despite remaining an introverted social weirdo, Xian teaches others how to overcome the fear of showing up authentically on social platforms while embracing their unique selves.