{"id":4023,"date":"2011-03-28T19:31:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2013-03-25T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T10:34:51","slug":"typography-in-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crazyleafdesign.com\/blog\/typography-in-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Typography in Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you search for ‘typography and art’ on google<\/a> you’ll find mostly images that don’t qualify as Art. Mostly the search returns faces and love hearts made of song lyrics. Not the most creative stuff, but for the most part they look good. Don’t worry I’m not going to try and define Art (capital ‘A’) in a short blog post and rag on art (lower case ‘a’), rather I’m going to share with you what I would like to find when I do this search and why.<\/p>\n

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Ascii art<\/h2>\n

My first experience with letters and symbols being used to make art was with ascii<\/a> on bulletin board systems, newsgroups and IRC. I tried it out myself and created a few little drawings. Most ascii-art<\/a> tends to be silly and fun, but sometimes you’ll come across something more along the lines of fine art. It’s possible to use any medium to express yourself, ascii is no exception. The example<\/a> shown here is the type of image one might produce in a drawing class in art college or at art classes with a local artist. The same principles of drawing light and shade, use of perspective and negative space and be easily applied. The medium also have it’s own nuances and syntax that can contribute to an artwork. I’d expect to see a few example of this art form on the results because it’s a digital medium, native to the internet, even if it’s not common to a gallery or available to study in an art college.<\/p>\n

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Graphic Design experiments<\/h2>\n

I’m okay with experiments with typography, we should all do it and not be afraid to try new things. Even if what we’re trying is not very useful we can treat it like a concept that can be used to influence other work. One google result which I’ve found to be in a few blogs is a gun image<\/a> created from type. It’s well executed. Albeit not the sort of thing I’d expect to see curated for exhibition but a very effective use of type in graphic design<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Installations using Type<\/h2>\n

Down the road from where I went to art college a text-based artwork is installed in the environment. The work is by Sebastian Moody<\/a>, an Australian artist. This work was commission by the South bank corporation<\/a> (a region in Northern Australia) under a scheme called “Art Built-in South bank<\/a>“. It is a great example of a strong use of environmental text.<\/p>\n