45 Creative Examples of Typography in the Wild

January 22, 2010 - 25 Comments
Graphic Design,Typography

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For many ‘designers’ today, the ‘art of typography’ consists of picking a typeface – and, maybe if the audience is lucky, experimenting with leading, tracking, and kerning.
That’s not to say that there aren’t many extremely talented designers working with type today. Typography is, of course, an intricate art-form.

As computers continue to increase in power, typographers working digitally have been experimenting with textures, lighting, and more to create awesome effects including a whole movement of 3d style work.
But what about real-3d? Technical advances often spur a strong backlash, and typographers are no exception.

The designers below have literally taken their type off the page using materials including hair, cigarretes, toothpaste, underwear, and condoms to create beautiful 3d typographic works.
From Vladimir Zivkovic’s Google Earth project, to Arjan Benning’s pinched skin alphabet, these designers are working with anything and everything to push the envelope.

5ive

Amandine Alessandra

Amitis Pahlevan

Andrew van der Merwe

Arjan Benning

Auto Ban

Balazs Szabo

Benjamin Koh

Bjorn Johansson

Bram Vanhaeren

Brock Davis

Canhur Aktuglu

David Aspinall

Dolly Rogers

Emil Holtoug

Ersinhan Ersin

Ethan YJ Park

Font Soup

Handmade Font

Jihad Lahham

Jozef Ondrik

Juan Camilo Rojas

Katrina Petersen

Lee Stokes

Matthew Croft

Pablo Alfieri

Palette Industries

Paul Hollingworth

Pedro Sousa

Peter Pavlov

Richard J Evans

Sarah France

Sebastian Gagin

Shan San

Sveta Sebyakina

Vladimir Zivkovic

Vladimir Koncar

About the author

Shane Ward is a managing editor at Freshbump (a daily visual inspiration source for Advertising, Architecture, Computer Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Design, and Photography), Collect3d (a designer toy blog) and also at FormatMag.

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14 Comments › Leave yours

Stephanie
22 Jan, 2010
Fabulous collection! I very much enjoyed these, and haven’t seen many of them around!
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Carlos Hermoso
22 Jan, 2010
Fantastic examples of typography.
Thanks for sharing!
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Zoe Feast
22 Jan, 2010
A great collection which is definitely food for thought.
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San Antonio Employment Lawyers
22 Jan, 2010
Hairvetica made me laugh, and “type should move” was very well done. Love the post.
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Chris Thurman
22 Jan, 2010
Brilliant collection! Typography is addicting.
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trio susilo
22 Jan, 2010
2 thumbs up to Amandine Alessandra human typo. brilliant idea.
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Chez
22 Jan, 2010
wow! Those are cool typography
love them :)
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Anish
22 Jan, 2010
great collection !
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Motti
23 Jan, 2010
Very cool collection, thanks for sharing!
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Kuldeep Daftary
26 Jan, 2010
great collection! lol from where u dig so many diff sites! ?
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Jonathan Kurten
26 Jan, 2010
Absolutely love the sand work by Andrew van der Merwe! The name suggest a fellow South African perhaps?
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Djdesignerlab
1 Feb, 2010
I liked the last one. ;) All are very good.
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prazert
26 Jun, 2010
awesome……. IDEa
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TwitterBackgrounds
20 Aug, 2010
Really nice typography examples :) Liked the sand typography but they are all creative and original.
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