From a water slide structure forming the word “YOLO” (short for “You Only Live Once,” so might as well jump on it), to grilled burger meat shaped to spell “Relish,” there is a lot you can do with 3D typography… especially nowadays with current software. Of course, just imagining things in your head is easier […]
Category: Typography
Pawel Nolbert’s Painted Typography
Pawel Nolbert is an illustrator, graphic designer and art director from Warsaw, Poland. His latest series is an eye-catching project entitled “Atypical,” which explores the form and rhythm of letters and pseudo-letters in stylish colours and painterly lines. This is how you breathe new life into typography. Images © Pawel Nolbert Via Behance
Create Typographic Images with Typo-Painter
Typographic art is popular, you have seen lots around the web, but making a portrait with letters is not easy to do if you are adding one by one. Install Typo-Painter app to your computer, and then easily make images with your favorite typefaces and inspirational messages in Adobe Photoshop. Save your creations in EPS […]
Splashy Letter Art
Having featured Niels Shoe Meulman’s calligraphy in 2012 and 2013, it seems like a good time to check up on the artist. This year he is using pearlized acrylic paint which changes colors when viewing at different angles. It is also fascinating to see images of his painting process showing the various brushstroke layers that […]
AKACORLEONE’s Perspective Illusions
For those of you who weren’t in Lisbon last month, you missed AKACORLEONE’s solo show “Find Yourself in Chaos” displayed at the Underdogs gallery. From colorful art layered on acrylic sheets to a very cool anamorphic installation in ghost green and black, his work is about the frenetic urban lifestyle with so much going on […]
Fun Letter Transformations
NY based graphic designer Tien-Min Liao experiments and studies the relationship between upper and lowercases. For each alphabet letter, the rules were she would paint black shapes on her hands but without additional editing, and with gestures she would have to form the two letter cases. It may look simple, but it is quite challenging […]
Gooey Centered Planets and Letters
Warning: This article contains a nude related image. Viewer discretion is advised. FOREAL is an illustration and art direction studio managed by Benjamin Simon and Dirk Schuster, both of these individuals strive to create eye-candy visuals. From Saturn’s gum-filled-center to silicone-shaped breasts forming the letter E, their creations are all about making something unique and […]
Cool Movie Posters of 2014
Upon the glorious advent of the Internet, the studios were able to spread the word of a film’s release far easier than they could in the Dark Ages (i.e. before the days of the World-Wide-Web). Posters once took exclusive pride of place on billboards, bus stations and on the walls of video shops; as well […]
10 Great Poster Designs
Words are formed from curly octopus tentacles, and fresh cake slices are served on another poster—these visuals are thought-out by graphic designers who need to capture attention and communicate effectively to a target audience. Included here, are one-sheet designs from 10 individuals like master designer Stefan Sagmeister who continues to inspire so many creatives, to […]
Embroidered Messages
Having featured Maricor and Maricar’s lettering art some years ago, it seems like a good time to check up on the sisters to see what they are doing now? They started making handcrafted projects just for fun, but their eye-catching needlework has interested magazines like Desktop and Meanjin. “All our embroidery work starts off as […]