The Boy Fitz Hammond

The Boy Fitz Hammond has been my favourite discovery of the day...
Illustrations of celebrities with witty comment about them at the side; I wish I could just do that for the rest of my life.

There was huge amount of work on the site but thankfully when I opened it, this popped up...

...which is a really great example of type as image.

Supermundane

Siggi Eggertson

These are Really well resolved pieces and are great examples of how digitally made type can create a texture aswell.
The 'paper' image, (bottom right hand corner) looks like its simply made out of textures and there is no outline but when you engage with it, you can still read what it says.

More from Serge...

I've already posted work by this designer (Serge Seidlitz) but they were all from one collection, here are other examples of his work; the top three...make me smile? I just really like them. They're completely llegible and readable; based on existing type but they work great as images.

The last image of the numbers is definately image as type but the fact is, it IS type so it shows how image based it really be. And its funny!

Sean Rees (www.seanrees.co.uk)

Helvetica Love/Hate; Interesting way to show the words, play around with the letters and colours of the letters to determine how it is read.

Love/Hate posters; Bold. Loud! Straight to the point. Can't argue with it.

The typeface...I really like this typeface, it reminds of the building blocks that children get, that are just straight forward geometric shapes.

Once again, something I like about this is that there isn't really a style but they're all striking pieces.

Our Bartlett

The main things I like about these pieces; limited colour pallette, plain backgrounds and crafting!

The cushion says it all.

Mike Perry (www.mikeperrystudio.com)

I've posted Mike Perry before; for the first Type as Image brief, mainly because of his book Hand Job but also because he's a good designer Obviously!

Above are a collection of some of my favourite typography based pieces that he has done.
All of them have a hand rendered feel to them and this is definately something I want to take inspiration from.

2 things I noted from the above pieces were;
The 2 'About a girl' resolutions; they both look completely different and have quite opposite approaches with one being bold, simple, cut out shapes and the other quite illustrative and hand drawn yet the both work?
And...the Bikini typeface; type doesn't have to be drawn!

Melvin Galapon

The main reason I like Galapon's work is because, for most of the pieces, you have to really visually interact with it to see what it says; the middle row pieces, when they were quite large on my screen I couldn't tell what they said...I had to walk away and kind of squint a little and on his site he has a photo of the prints from different angles and just by offsetting the type, it gives it a 3D quality.

Similarly, the last pieces are posters of lyrics, using a 'music' typeface that he created. As the very last image shows, out of context and close up it isn't very easy to read but when you see the posters from a distance it is quite readable.

Interesting!

Lets Kiosk

The 'Dimensions' pieces below remind me of non-format/si scott kind of work and I like it but...I do think they have better examples.
I mainly liked the 'Print is dead' CD - Its really simple how they have just covered the pieces with black lines and 'reversed out' Print is dead, and all the tracks on the back look like they have been hand rendered with a biro or something. It creates a really nice texture.

Julien Vallee

I used Julien Vallee for my design context in the first year and I still really like his work.
I believe he is the cover artist for Tangible...the ever so popular 'high touch visuals' graphic design book.
This style of work; 3D to 2D is really popular at the moment and theres no wonder why because it really is visually engaging and easily creates depth etc.

In Vallee's work I specifically like how he can make it work when just using white...but can also use colour really effectively.

Jim Datz

One of the main things I liked about this small collection of type by Jim Datz was that there wasn't a set 'style'; they all look different but they all work.
My favourite one from this is the 'We are young & we are bored'. It works really well as an image, it sits nicely in the frame and the colours are...calming and happy?
Very nice.

Emma Kelly

This illustrator isn't particularly type based...as the URL for her website states 'I like to draw things', but I really like her style of illustration, in particular the line drawings of the gun and the phone. The have a really beautiful quality to them and they have no colour (except the flower coming of the gun obviously).

Really really nice :)

[Edit]
And I believe this is Lady Gaga...?

Emily Forgot

I think the 'Silver & Black' piece above really shows how well image can be incorporated into type; it is really just type and its completely readable yet it works really well as an image because of how the type is extended into other shapes and how they connect.

Damian Correll

The first two images of the decks were a collaboration with Mike Perry.
Its a fun context and creates an audience to aim to graphics at which is helpful.

The other two pieces were his own...
I specifically like the last one; Our best days are behind us! because even though its made out of lots of shapes, textures and kerned a Lot, it captures your attention and makes you want to see what it says and when you look at it properly, it Is llegible so it works as an image and as type.

Billie Jean...

...is not my lover, she's a just a girl who claims that I am the one...

It had to be done.

But in all seriousness, below are pieces of work by Billie Jean.
I was first drawn to her work when I saw a big piece where she'd illustrated all over a piano...it looked so fun! There were other examples where she'd worked on 'different' media such as a wooden desk etc. with what looked like a blue biro (but probably wasn't).

I just really like the hand crafted/rendered, personal feel that her type has and feel that...although it may not all be vectored and perfectly crisp, it still engages the audiences and creates somewhat of a more interesting texture.

Anthony Burrill

Although some additional imagery is used in some of the above pieces, Type is the dominant visual and is what engages the audience really.

I really like how they show that simple typefaces (like the Work hard and be nice to people poster) can be just as effective as more illustrative ones (Short circuit poster)

Andrew Rae

As I spent all yesterday researching the Lady herself, I spent today looking at design context.

I found a lot of new designers and found some that were designers of work I've appreciated before but never known the artist of it (like the 'Play with the city' piece below).
Today has made me love 'Type as image' even more and makes me want to do more of it...which is good considering thats my brief!

Below are a few pieces from Andrew Rae; although they include additional imagery, I really like the way images are involved with the type so it looks like part of the lettering.
I saw the middle 'Play with the city' piece in the Metro sometime last year and I even kept it...now I know who did it!

Serge Seidlitz

The following set of posters were the advertising campaign for ITV comedy/drama 'Married, Single, Other'.
By chance, I found the artist to be Serge Seidlitz and I really like a lot of his work (I will post more later) but in particular I like these because they are really quite simple; purely type based but illustrative type which makes it work as an image and they're all, in their own way, visually engaging; be it from simple use of colour or hand rendered type.

It shows that something doesn't have to be hugely busy with lots of photoshopping and totally digital to be effective.

Love it :D

Book brief - Luke Best

These following examples by Luke Best aren't the most detailed, beautifully crafted pieces ever but they do still work. The last example; 'Give and be kind' is being sold for £50 and it doesn't look like it took a particularly long amount of time to produce; evidence that good ideas don't have to take ages to produce.

Luke Best;

Book Brief - Rob Ryan

Obviously...I don't have time to craft 10 books worth of pieces that look anything like Rob Ryans in the time frame we have, but I think the style of type that he uses in his work can be applied to print based work too.

Rob Ryan;

This last one is my favourite example :) Shows that you don't have to use conventional stock to communicate a message...work onto existing things.