If bud had naked ladies on their bottles...

Source: http://cr8id.com/speakeasy-bottles/
Artist: Samantha Wiley
Title: Mockingbird bottle label.

It's appeal comes from the sharp uneven spacing of black to white or clear to black for the clear bottle. The silhouette of the curvy woman gives a hint of attractive sex appeal to the male demographic but the clean distinct lines give hint to higher class. Cursive type for the title hugging the curve of the border between dominate top and submissive bottom. Speaks of an earlier time, perhaps 1920s with the use of the title and bird.

There is no mountains or shiny type or water droplets to be seen. It is not meant to be like other modern beer labels. It's got a darker tone with the amount of black.

These would look 20% cooler if your on acid...

Source: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6-KTIqSSqZBNHJkWncSnNK2_BkzkNbb1PAcFKGYEIdQpqGNiWLVLo8sm6Y2XBqaAMo2sTxfelvOkLBxjhzMZ1oCvJCdIagSNDJ4WEyLNbYzpTJ-lmvKyyiUnCMs2N-K7s8PUs-kOQWe0I/s1600-h/1.jpg
Artist: PJ Richardson. (Second bottle to the right)
Title : J Church

In 2008, Pepsi company issued the Mountain Dew Green label to promote recycling. Each bottle was designed digitally and printed on Aluminum bottles, the poe boys of soda cans. Since there's a lot here to cover, I'll just chat about the lively bright bottle second to the last on the right side of the picture.

PJ Richardson is a MICA graduate who started out as a common graffiti artist, focusing on turning lettering into design, animation and live actions. His bottle, entitled J Church, is the best here arguably. The bright mix of reds and teal blues are great start for attracting audience attention. It's a vibrating collage of street chaos you might find on the side of a train car. The kind of art that connects to the intended customer mindset that buys this brand of soda. It's bright, melting imagery makes one mind abuzz just from staring at it as you seek out recognizable patterns.

It beats out its competition but just barley. Mike Sutfin's Hessian Henchmen to J Church's immediate right serves better as skin for a Monster energy drink then Mountain Dew. It's far darker and sinister looking where as J Church has less implied violence. Course this design would not work for the traditional can because it's youthful rebellious design would turn off older crowds.

Steven Jobs looks super creepy here.

Source: http://theexperiential.deviantart.com/art/Steven-Paul-Jobs-113968783
Artist: Theexperiential
Title: Steven Paul Jobs

His eyes are what bothering me. They're staring right at you under a heavy shadow. It's not bad bothering as it is an intended creepiness? Moving aside from this, the mood intended is part mysterious and insightful. His face is crawling with the ideas, bands, names that inspired a genius to take gambles. You also see a hint of sadness from the trials he took and maybe from the thought that he knew he would not last to see all of his ideas come to fruition.

The blue is a good choice for invoking depressing feelings and the downward lighting  helps to highlight words that need to stand out.

I'm Batmmmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaann..*coughs*

Source: http://livingworkinprogress.deviantart.com/art/TypeFace-Batman-Beyond-270841556
Artist: Livingworkinprogress
Title: Typeface- Batman Beyond.

In the late 90's, the WB launched a cartoon called batman beyond and it was producer Bruce Timm's finest work at the time aside from the earlier Batman:TAS. It was dark, edgy with fleshed out characters and action filled stories yet still acceptable to watch for a saturday morning cartoon. The focus was split between an aging Bruce Wayne, cynical due to his failing health and still keenly observant, and a neo-punk teen named Terry Mcguise with street smarts and athletic potential as the pair fight crime in a more cyberpunk Gotham of the nearing future.

What makes this works is the in your face dive of the body as the red letters fan outward from the center bat emblem. The mix of large numbers and single letters help to shape the form and shade the details. If one can look closer, you can see sentences that reveal interesting spoilers from the series's run.

Even dead, Chapman still makes news.

Source: http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/06/4-long-dead-celebrities-resurrected-via-typeface-art/
Newspaper: Folha De S.
Title: Movie stars in your newspaper.

This typeface art is part of a series that ran in the Brazilian newspaper.A promotional stunt to get buzz back into the press. Tributes to the memory of cinema's sliver age stars that helped to shape the direction of the industry both on and off the screen. Everything is clean serif font; Every letter is carefully utilize to shape the familiar poses and appearances that resonate with the public memory.

Here we see the enduring little tramp dressed in a suite of capital and lower case letters. Leaning on his can of capital L and little i. Even his mustache is a type with the twin dots and black block. A fun little project to say the least.

Useless facts can be art too.

Source: http://graphics002.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/50-spectacular-type-and-text-artworks/
Artist: CHIN2OFF
Title: inject knowledge question mark.

What was the motive behind this? Its not like knowing there's a million ants to one me in the world is going to make me feel any better. Because it won't cause I'll feel my skin crawl a little. Perhaps it's aim is to make you wonder. Why did coca-cola change it's original colors? Do spiders really have clear blood?

Honestly, I think it would have served better as a 2-d image. The underside looks ill-stretched in some areas. Not even matching with the same degree or angle. The fade effect doesn't help either.

I write everything on my hands

Source: http://graphics002.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/50-spectacular-type-and-text-artworks/
Artist: Hyperpower
Title: Fingerprint Memories

A good piece.To start with, shading is conducted with the typeface that reveals little secretes of the artist. The amount of detail taken is impressive, especially with the knuckles and wrinkles along the joints. The white light reflecting on the backhand is a little strong for my tastes. With a little more shading this piece could be better.

And now...A naked man.

Source: http://graphics002.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/50-spectacular-type-and-text-artworks/
Artist: griiot
Title: homme typo

It's a nice piece to look upon. But there's a critical piece missing here. Can you guess? The message.

What was the point behind this detailed anatomical man of so many words? We are given so little clues to this. Arms hidden behind the head to convey guilt or perhaps wrongful imprisonment? A cluster of jumbled letters reach out from behind him to consume or does he attempt to hide the cluster out of a sense of shame?  His form indicates a lack of concealment to the rest of his torso. A reference to sexuality one might think.

Without further elaborations, I can only guess what the purpose of this piece is trying to aim at. Further details have to be added.

Cigarette's kill...well duh.

Source: http://graphics002.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/50-spectacular-type-and-text-artworks/
Artist: Desert Viper
Title: Got a light

Anti-smoking ads require three things to work; Facts, attention getting graphics, and message. The idea being to sway you away from smoking by listing the nearly four thousand chemicals that go into just one cigarette. Most of these serve as the background in faded, neatly rowed type. The biggest killers get the star treatment by coming together to form the cancer stick. It's pretty clever with the color coded typeface alignment. And the way "Tar" just crumbles like it's real counterpart while lighter fluid, hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide float away as curving fumes.

The problem I have is the choice of color. Yellow is a good attention grabber but it should have been used only for the the cigarette type art. Anything after that would have been too much.

Watch for falling blocks

Source: http://graphics002.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/50-spectacular-type-and-text-artworks/
Artist: patronus4000
Title: writer's block

Impressive with what one can do with letters. Often, people have these bursts of inspiration; jotting down vasts amount of wording in crunches or over a period of time. Then there are the moments where everything slows down till the fingers don't touch the keypad or the pen is filled with ink but just hovers above a blank page. Writer's block is this sudden road stop; your forced to stop and can't find the means to go on as the gears in your head grind themselves to oblivion.

I'll say this. It doesn't need the word "writer's" because it just unnecessary. The message is clear with the three dimensional cube sitting on top of a jumble of the word block. Each side is the progress of the same story about the human mind pleading almost to find an idea and breath it to life via words. Yet it cannot pass the ground barrier that is a complete jumbled mess.

Can you hear me?

Source: http://graphics002.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/50-spectacular-type-and-text-artworks/
Artist: Gordorca
Title: I speak alone.

Sometimes I have trouble speaking to people of the opposite sex. I have a lot to say but my mouth stumbles to get the right words out. So this piece I can relate to. The type maybe too tiny to read as the spacing is small and tracking too close to the individual lettering inside the male. Tightly packed to give that dread he feels to the female. Its a wall inside himself he just can't seem to climb over to reach her.

Can you read Japanese?

Source: http://graphics002.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/50-spectacular-type-and-text-artworks/
Artist: Ashed~Dreams
Title: Utada Hikaru typo portrait

To better understand this subject, perhaps it best I explain who Utada Hikaru is. She is a popular singer/songwriter. She is born Japanese American and is versed in piano, guitar and vocals across a wide range of musical genres including Pop, R&B, Rock, Alternative, Dance, Synthpop, and electronica. Holds twelve number one singles on Japan's Oricon Singles chart including her debut album First Love and two record achievements for a solo female artist or group artists. To western audiences, she is the songwriter and singer of the Kingdom Heart's Simple and Clean, the franchises' theme song.

Almost every single letter is written in Kanji, Japan's premier written language. I find it amazing how naturally the kanji can be manipulated to form shapes as fine as individual strands of hair or shadow lines under Hikaru's chin. The smaller the lettering the bigger the hue on Hikaru's facial features. It creates a natural beauty that can be easy to read. Whereas English words would read funny to most audiences as they are intended to be in a straight line from left to right; imagine it if these Kanji were translated into bold cap english letters, you would start to see Kanji does not have this restriction and can be read horizontally or vertically.

Finally, the sentence "Can you keep a secret" is a nice enticement for viewers to ponder.

kids always look creepy in gas masks.

Source:http://graphics002.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/50-spectacular-type-and-text-artworks/
Artist: getrainedon.
Title: Freedom, since when?

Freedom isn't free. A lesson often hard learned. Here the cost is demonstrated by the little girl hiding behind a gas mask. A device designed to obscure her facial features while indirectly causing a sense of danger/dread to the audience's mind. Various freedoms fall behind her either as rain or possible symbolizing bombs. Another way of seeing this is the mask being some sort of filter, keeping her from saying what is truly on her mind as only acceptable freedoms are spoken.

The girl is meant to be a victim but a victim of what is not precisely known. Freedom is something we are taught at a early age that it is a fundamental right to pursue. Without further details elaborating, the true purpose of the message seems obscure here.

There is only one MJ...

Source: http://www.insidethatad.com/

Title: Type art
Artist: Phershsoldier

Surprisingly realistic. The black background makes the reds and browns pop to the audiences eyes. MJ's face showing a moment of determination in adversity with every squint and shadow.The lighting effects are highlighting the right portions of the body. Every word one can make out sums up MJ's career, character and success both on and off the court.

What adds to the value of the piece and I'm not talking price here, is MJ's signature in the top right corner. It adds a level of appreciation and acknowledgment of talent from someone so recognized as MJ.

INFINITE GGGGGGGGGGggggggggggggsss...

Source: http://geoffmyers.deviantart.com/art/quot-Type-is-Art-quot-Typoposter-272938877

Artist: geoffmyers

Title: "Type is Art" typoster

Now this is something creative. Taking one particular letter in a name and emphasis it in a big way so that people can see it. The infinity effect from the succession of lower case g's going within the opening.  I don't like small size for the rest of the name or where it is placed. You can hardly see it off to the right of the lettering. Perhaps if it was placed where "typeisart" is set or gotten rid of all together.  It just doesn't seem necessary to me.

*Play Black Sabbath's Iron Man in the background*

Source: http://donovanolson.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/type-anatomy-iron-man/
Artist: Donovan Olson
Title: Type Anatomy Iron Man

Marvel movie nut, so when I saw this pic, I had to post it. Every line shown is a letter; Even the omi repulsor in the center of the chest is an @ colored in a soft blue hue akin to the glowing arc reactor of the film adaptation. What helps further is the descriptive flags pointing out easy to miss details such as x-height, typeface, ligatures, etc.  The color scheme really helps because its iron man's iconic red and gold; bright, flashy and easy to spot across the room.

Only down side is it a simple Book antiqua illustration. Just iron man standing there. Staring back. Would be better if it was made doing a action such as flight or about to fire a repulsor.

Put the words on the foot that will go into your mouth

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmick/4005330221/
Artist: Razvan Coste
Title: nike type art

Okay, I'll say it. Typeface shoes have been done before. I think  it was early 90s but its a proven formula. Still, new spins on an old thing should be tried for they may actually improve upon the original. According to the artist this took about four hours to complete and it does show dedication.

The red lettering near the bottom of the shoe is a risky move; the nike catch phrase "Just do it" has a jumbled sizing issue along with being jumbled with all these numbers and letters makes it harder to read from a distance. It would make much more sense if the phrase was shaped along the laces or larger print on the left side of the shoe. Then there's "nike AiR" which hides itself too well in the familiar logo of a multi-billion dollar company. Perhaps these could have been given the red letter treatment or perhaps the entire shoe could have been made from the phrase nike air. These are just ideas but they could be worth something to the right ears.

Killing you with typeface

Source: http://www.wallartrockers.com/3-Lukas-Bischoff-Contemporary-graphic-and-typographic-robot-wall-art-in-vinyl-on-large-format-acrylic.htm
Title: 2023 typebot

At first, it's kind of cool to look at. Giant grey mecha made out of type. Appeals to the male gamer persona. Barrels in particular are pretty deceiving with the way the letter i is stretched and titled to look like a gun barrel.

But when you step back and look you feel its missing something. It feels just letters that were jumbled together that happen to make our pattern seeking brains to identify as a robot. It needs scenery in the background/foreground. It needs skulls made out of the word skull for its' mechanical chicken feet to step on. It needs content.

Inspired by the bird y.

Source: http://shadowness.com/xjosh2k6x/inspired-typography-art
Artist: xjosh2k6x
Title: Inspired Typography Art

Type art of animals seems rare to me. I think the reason why is that animals are way different than simple human anatomy. Even more so when your restricted to using only words  associated with a certain mood or phrase. You have to carefully pick which words to use and how to align them into the desired shape on the page. Words like "smart" "Open minded" "creative" have to put sized and placed into the right fitting.

I do have a couple of gripes. First being the upside down lettering of "inspire" and "Do". I understand the need to form a easily recognizable head and upper wing but going against the format of the rest of the wording does hurt to turn one's own head to read. Second, the over use of > for the beak and tail feather for I feel it goes against the idea of an inspiring message made out of entirely inspiring words. Lets face it, it's like cheating here.

Type makes an ugly woman

Source: http://ejnord.com/blog/type-is-art-piece/

Name: Renaissance Woman
Artist: "Tim" ((found on Eric Nord's site.))

Typically, I see lots of type art featuring famous people so this is a nice breath of fresh air. This simple cartoon-ish profile is made possible thanks to the curvy lines of the san-serif font. The way some of the lettering blends together, forming shapes such as the lips or wavy hair. Even alterations such as half of the letter k to create high cheek bones or the letter n cropped to form the top of an earlobe.

Manipulation of this scale seems easy but to the trained digital artist it would take effort of a large kind. Most if not all of it would have to be converted to shapes for stretching or cropping. Followed alignment and placement of each letter. The careful planning into designing this is far more challenging than creating a type montage of a living human being because 99% of them are based off existing photos or still of the subject matter. This picture had to be created out of the artist's mind first which adds some props to the talent.

Funky Owl Jam

Funky Owl Jam

Source:

https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/63614961/disp/b11d29a0a5705d60c045f929d7604f3a.jpg

Everyone in the world has their own preferred tastes to the vast ocean genres of music. For the Arcade Empire 's 2012 electro fest the artist was commissioned to create a series of posters depicting animals listening to electric music. The idea being individuality being brought to the surface from smooth tones and bopping beats. This one showing a fluffy blue owl with headset staring out to the audience viewing it. 

The color scheme is simple with an empathizes on light hue blue mixes with beige; Not a normal color choice but strangely works for this instance. There is also a balance of typographic elements hugging their own portions of the poster size. Sadly, the bands featuring are too small to read. There's a lack of information about the vendors, dates and address. Tons of space that can be utilize for a more attractive poster. The owl is nice but it's too much the focus of the poster.