50 Excellent Word as Image / typographic visualisations & resources

 50 Excellent Word as Image / typographic visualisations & resources

Beautiful visualisation pushing the creative use of processing with these Word as Image abstract faces into the realm of concrete poetry. Made by scloopy aka Ryan Alexander see his site onecm.com.

 

say whats on your mind by sclooby

 

McCann Erickson Manchester has created a poster campaign for a mental health organisation that combines photography and Processing (B.Fry & C.Reas) to great effect.

 

The two six sheet posters are for Leeds Counselling and will appear in doctors' surgeries, clinics, student halls and other suitable locations throughout Leeds.

 

I added it to my list of visualisation types: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/#Defintions 

Analyze a text   IM
Text / Image  GA

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Word
Tree

wordle 50 Excellent Word as Image / typographic visualisations & resources

Wordle

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Tag
Cloud

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Phrase
Net

 

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Word
as 

Image

 

see full list of types here: 

 

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MyceliumType_close0.jpg by scloopyMyceliumType_close1.jpg by scloopyMyceliumType.jpg by scloopySarah0.jpg by scloopyBeard0.jpg by scloopySarah1.jpg by scloopytatsuya0.jpg by scloopytatsuya1.jpg by scloopyclaire0-0.jpg by scloopytatsuya0-0.jpg by scloopyshadow0-0.jpg by scloopy

garak0-0.jpg by scloopyico1-0.jpg by scloopyjaflower2-0.jpg by scloopygarak1-0.jpg by scloopyshadow4x4_0.jpg by scloopymike0.png by scloopyzeTEN0.jpg by scloopyMycelium by scloopyMycelium by scloopyMycelium by scloopyMycelium by scloopy

 

from: http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/november/processing-thoughts

see more wonderful Words as Image at my gallery website http://wordasimage.ning.com/ and please contribute great word as images you have seen there,

 

From sam winston, me, diter rot in bok, h5, neville brody, apollinaire, marinetti, cobbing, kerr & knoble

 

grammys face typephoto by nancy crampton of a writer Rothwhisper by bob cobbingthe city by h5rundsheibe nr 5 by ferdinand kriwet monster story 2001 - 1 - by sam winstondictionary story 2001 - 2 - by sam winston
dictionary story 2001 - 1 - by sam winston nike advert by neville brodyphilosophiques by gio minolaaus dem geschlechbuch 1589 by familie tucherbok 1956-59 by diter rotWord Mouth Face MergePortrait by chris watsonriver map - by Frith Kerr and Amelia Noble
zing tang zumb by fillippo marinetti

 

Many more there.

 

Try a more easier approach in photoshop with this great step by step tutorial.

 

grammys face type 

 

 

This was an excellent post from andy, Typographic Map Collection 1 of 2. Love the Blog, Brilliant Post

 

Map by Layla CurtisPart of
Boston typography mapLinocut map of Paris by Mark Andrew WebberPart of the c091bf7f1fc965c72eea7e18a7e44227 50 Excellent Word as Image / typographic visualisations & resources 

 

 set aside some time to sit and watch this all the way through as it is simply brilliant, immense collection and highly informative of the subject. the mother of all collectors. trust me you will be trumped in your hoarding and collecting abilities compared to these 2: 

 

 

 

ubu.com/film/sackner_concrete.html
great site, not brilliant to navigate but comprehensive

 

This is a good read (apologies if hard to read)

 

 

View more documents from visual_think_map.

 

this did the blog rounds. rightly so its good.

 

 

 

This is really good too, more details of its creators etc here: http://wordasimage.ning.com/video/typophile-film-festival-5 

 

 

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

 

see also:

 

sackner
archive of visual and concrete poetry. colossos collection

 

garden digest. l
o n g list of visuals

 

studio
cleo. stephane mallarme bio

 

ubu web. vast resource on sound, image, word
poetries

 

I have done many other posts on word as image pieces so see related posts or view archive. Thanks

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