I love typography. I love the shapes of letters. I have been toying with the idea of making some kind of art project using typography when I came upon paper quilling. Cutting paper into strips and using them to create some interesting shapes.
Yula Brodskaya has some amazing work combining the two ideas. I thought I would give it a shot. It’s a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Here is the project so far.
If you want to see some of Yula’s work here are few sites: (She does such amazing work)
-http://www.axiomdc.com/blog/?p=131
-http://www.flickr.com/photos/maayanpearl/3103425382/
After re-reading some of my favorite poems I found myself wishing to illustrate one. Here is what I’ve come up with: (Click on the image for larger view)
I really like how it turned out. Drawn entirely with a poem. The Frame is the entire poem as well.
I came across the work of artist Christian Faur who, among his other work in oil, encaustics, fabric and fiber, uses wax crayons as a medium in a completely different way.
Using hand cast encaustic crayons (that are still essentially similar to Crayola Crayons), Faur sets them into position, on end, in arrangements of the crayons themselves that, based on the value and hue of the individual crayons, forms an image when seen from a sufficient distance.
This still recaptures some of the innocence and playfulness of childhood crayons and other toys (remember “Lite Brite”?), but uses the crayons as a combination assemblage and image creation medium.
There are several experimental variations in which Faur explores the idea, many of them almost monochromatic except for sharp punctuations of brighter colors, others are full color like the image above, Experiment 5 (shown with a detail of the surface).
One of his other artistic experiments involve assigning colored crayons as letters in a “Color Aalphabet” and then using them to interpret literary passages, for instance from Hamlet. He goes into detail here about how the colors were chosen.
The terrors of the Tiny Art Director. Illustrator Bill Zeman’s four-year-old daughter critiques (and usually rejects) his work.
Help support the Tiny Art Director’s college fund (She’ll be going to RISD in 2023)
The Posts are great. Very Funny! This Blog will really pick your day right up!
HI!
I’m Kristen the Designer. Welcome to my Blog and if your looking for my website. I’m going to be putting everything so that you can see my design process and finished projects, side hobbies and a lot of other stuff too. Thanks,
Kristen
Even though you can’t read a word of the site. LOL the art is great.
Type is Art : An interactive exploration.
Try it. It’s fun!
