Typographic portraits

Typography is an art of writing represents in different illustration technique. It is used everywhere around the world, for example from our textbook to the billboard on high ways. The design of typography requires immense specialties and usually involves people such as typographers, graphic designers, art directors, and comic book artists. In the modern era, typography has become an important key element for graphic designers in our digital society.

When I was browsing on the Internet today, I came across portraits consisted not with typical lines and drawings but with variety of typefaces in different colors, sizes, and fonts.  I was surprised that typeface can be used to such an extent, rather than just letters for writing and explanation of designs. The set of portraits are a series of typographic illustrations of different musicians made for Grammy 2009. The portraits of the artists’ face were produced by musicians’ song titles, and each of the song title was colorfully integrated in to the musicians’ portrait.

Because we live in a digital era now, font designers have became more and more popular. Some designer has developed typefaces to create visual designs such as the portrait posters for Grammy 2009. Typography designers use fonts and apply them into images by changing the colors, textures, or size of the fonts. With this approach, the designers can create with fonts a picture similar to that drawn with typical elements such as lines and shadings. In this distinct form of font design, designers can help viewers to understand more in depth about the purpose of design by integrating that correlates to the meaning into the design. For me, I have learned that one can use anything possible to create and one needs to think out of boxes as much as possible. 

photo resource:http://musicisart.ws/grammy-typography/