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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 scloopy

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

Text / Image

Word
Tree

Wordle

grammys face type

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

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)

Octavo 88 5

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.

What goes around comes around

what goes around comes around found kendalricher com

great, awesome, anti war ads. sorry for short post, just had to expand the viewing of these, even if they might have already been around for a while. great design, visual thinking blog below where found.

from: http://kendalricher.com/blog/?p=241

via: http://theinspirationroom.com/

Published on 2009/05/12 10:30 pm.
Filed under: advert, concrete, linear, looking, reality, representation, visual thinking, war, world

Typographics

This is a collection of early, small typographic experiments. I liked the idea of »smashing« type on paper and see what happens. All the typograms were created with python and postscript.

I know they aren't very functional i know, but they are good. check out poetry on the road, previously posted. by boris muller

http://www.esono.com/boris/projects/typographics/

Published on 2009/03/16 5:17 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, concrete, mallarme, poetry, shape, typographic, white space

Functioning Ferdinand

family of secrets - flowing data

Saw the first image in a recent post and pleased , like with 389 Type that information arent these word clouds, and it reminded me off ferdinand kriwet's work the second image with concrete poetry. always appreciate it concrete poetry Mississippi Type Visual . Is it functioning form? (the first from flowing data)

Published on 2009/02/15 10:31 pm.
Filed under: concrete, form, function, kriwet, poetry, text, typographic, visual, white space

389 Type

389 final - jess bachman - wall stats

I created the initial concept of this poster on the night of November 4th.
Inspired by Barack Obama's victory and struck with a sense of awe when realizing
the amount of hard fought progress that has been achieved in this country,
Iwanted to pay homage to this centuries long journey. The original graphic which
can be seen here, became very popular and spread all over the internet. Many people loved it and ask me to make a print.

While I initially created it rather spur of the moment and with no desire to
sell it as a poster, the graphic needed to be completelyoverhauled in order to
make it practical for printing. The original would have been 12 feet long. So I
took the opportunity to really refine the design and create a lasting piece.
There were also many additions to the time line that people suggested. This
poster is not a tally of African American achievements, rather it is a record of
progress and setbacks. While Obama's election is not the endgame of equality, it
is a magnificent example of what is truly possible.

I hope you enjoy it and that it reminds you of the shoulders we all stand upon
and the stained greatness of this nation and its people who have indeed,
overcome.

jess states further 'It's not a typical visualization, as its all type and NOT a
word cloud but it is conveying information and special attention was paid to the
type weight, size, and placement to convey subtext.'

can appreciate that would have been delicate and kind to the look of the type as
i'm sure there was some altering of tracking, leading etc.

but it is good to see an informative design that isnt just a word cloud that is
more often that not aloud to arrange itself. words in this have been placed,
arrranged, hierachy, no doubt edited with 'selective omission' as quentin newark
states in what is graphic design' (been reading recently for quotes to define
design)

from: http://www.wallstats.com/389yearsago/#about

cheers

jess

Published on 2009/01/28 4:26 pm.
Filed under: apollinaire, art, black, concrete, conflict, evolution, information, innovative, literature, narrative, shape, text, thoughts, time, typographic

Animated Face

People have fallen in love with word clouds that make pictures. Zoom in and you see a bunch of individual words. Zoom out and you see a famousperson's face, seen so many Obama '08 - vote for hope faces.

It is a dictionary or a portrait? Mystical. TBWA/Chiat/Day,an advertising agency in Nashville, Tennessee of all places, brings the concept to promotion for the 2009 Grammy Awards - in animated form. Float through thecloud of songs and lo and behold, it's Stevie Wonder.

great stuff

from: http://flowingdata.com/2009/01/19/fun-with-words-that-collectively-make-pictures/

Published on 2009/01/28 12:32 am.
Filed under: animation, apollinaire, clean, concrete, creative, drawing, figure, map, music, poetry, text, visualisation, white space, words

Book Cutouts

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

These are very nice books visalised into a typographic territory through cutouts by Peter Cookridge & James Birdle (directed by asylum's ben falk & jos newbolt.

It is a stop motion film and features an entire city made out of books and covers from publishing house, 4th estate's titles.

they visualise scenes that cookreidge describes as 'in jokes' such as a man falling off a boat which is the scene from title book 'The Corrections'.

The production design is by Pippa Culpepper who crafts these beautiful artefacts.

from January 09 Creative review p10.

Also very similiar but all from one book,

art-livres - villiard com

Published on 2009/01/22 12:13 pm.
Filed under: abstract, concrete, cover, creative, literature, looking, mallarme, narrative, visual thinking, visualisation, words, wordsworth, writing

Mississippi Type Visual

mississippi river type map by andy proehl

I love this. real triumph to concrete poetry. mallarme or apollinaire would really applaud this visualisation, clean, informative design/map. I agree it works well as a free form poem, (as a western reading, its in english) top left to bottom right with how its composed. I love using type to represent space. type/typography as image. still a sketch... looks good.

'This is the latest map in my "Typography of Place" series... a map of the cities and towns that lie along the Mississippi River. The last two maps I did in this series (Silk Road and the Aleutian Islands) were very horizontal. So I wanted to try one with a vertical format.One of the things I am trying to achieve in these maps is to have the words that make up the map read as a sort of free-form poem.

In this one, I think that comes across particularly strong since you can "read" it from the river's source in the top left to the mouth in the bottom right.I have not color coded the place names on this map as I did in the Aleutian Islands Map but the same theme is present with many towns having Native American names (in addition to the river itself).

French names are also quite present as you travel down the river. Then there is the intriguing sequence of Egyptian-inspired names that includes Memphis, Thebes, Angola, and Cairo.This is still a sketch but I assembled the base map by drawing the river and placing the cities on the appropriate side of the river to try and stay geographically accurate. But I knew as I was building it that I was going to center the towns on the middle of the river to emphasize the meandering path the river takes as it starts in northern Minnesota and works its way all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. '

found here: http://flickr.com/photos/amapple/2546733739/in/set-72157602275753358/

check his blog: http://randomaxis.blogspot.com/2008/06/mississippi-river-typemap-this-is.html

Published on 2008/10/30 12:14 am.
Filed under: abstract, apollinaire, carto, clean, concrete, design, familiar, geographic, graphic, illustration, information, mallarme, territory, topographic, typographic, visual maps, visualisation, white space