'Typography as art'

stephen
10.Nov.2006 2.13am
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Hi
I’m looking for examples of ’Typography as art’ ie where letterform is the only or main part of a piece of art.
If you have any links or suggestions I would be happy to hear them.
Stephen R



edward maddison
10.Nov.2006 2.42am
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Kurt Schwitters
El Lissitzky
Piet Zwart
Hendrik Werkman


timd
10.Nov.2006 2.50am
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Marinetti

Blast

Journal of the Vorticists can’t find any of the internal pages at the moment.

Tim


miles
10.Nov.2006 2.56am
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my favourite; Ed Ruscha


miles
10.Nov.2006 3.20am
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Bruce Nauman
Barbara Kruger
Jenny Holzer


Goran Soderstrom
10.Nov.2006 3.20am
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In sweden we have a designer Gabor Palotai, he often uses only typography to create his design/art. However I’m not sure it is supposed to be called art or not — and btw, who is the judge of that — but it sure is “arty”. He has done a few books that is quite cool.


ill sans
10.Nov.2006 3.26am
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The most popular and well known is probably “Love” by Robert Indiana.


vinceconnare
10.Nov.2006 3.28am
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Look for Arabic, there is an old 1990 Baseline magazine with some good examples. I had it but someone at Microsoft didn’t give it back to me.

http://www.islamicart.com/main/calligraphy/index.html


bootchec
10.Nov.2006 3.35am
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There has been a great exhbition at British Museum recently Word into Art I was so impressed that when I wento to Morocco I had bought some caligraphy in Essouaria and my wife started caligraphy doodling.


T Bones
10.Nov.2006 3.49am
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Of the arabic theme, there are some interesting typographic works in the ’Community’ > ’Galeria’ section here.


Nick Cooke
10.Nov.2006 4.06am
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Tom Phillips

Nick Cooke


Goran Soderstrom
10.Nov.2006 4.16am
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Oh yes, I second that Arabic is beautiful, but for me arabic is more an art of calligraphy, not typography. Two weeks ago I was to a seminar with Linotype’s Nadine Chahine who is developing the arabic fonts at Linotype. Some examples that she showed of old arabic calligraphy, it just blew my mind – so beautiful pieces of art.


rubs
10.Nov.2006 4.58am
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Jasper Johns (numbers and alphabets).


ill sans
10.Nov.2006 5.15am
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How about Barbara Kruger?

http://www.barbarakruger.com/


ak
10.Nov.2006 5.28am
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christopher wool

(search google images)


satya
10.Nov.2006 6.23am
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hah, how one can forget this great chap
http://www.siscottdesign.com/


AzizMostafa
10.Nov.2006 6.49am
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Drawings with Arabic ABC


rubs
10.Nov.2006 6.54am
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Affiches lacérées:
François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé etc.


eliason
10.Nov.2006 7.27am
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Pablo Picasso and George Braque
René Magritte
Ilia Zdanevich
Glenn Ligon
Fred Eerdekens

This book may be a helpful survey.


pattyfab
10.Nov.2006 8.27am
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Dada.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=dada&btnG=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8...

not sure why that link is not active, but I did an image search for Dada on google and found a lot of examples of typography art.


ill sans
10.Nov.2006 8.58am
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Thanks for that link, Satya. I’ve seen this guys work before (and loved it!), but didn’t know who made it.


metofa
10.Nov.2006 9.14am
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hey... azizwhat i like most in ur artwork is the” leader ” ;)
gr8 work!
this is a type of arabic calligraphy art (kufi handasa)


timd
10.Nov.2006 10.00am
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Tom, you might enjoy this (via Typographica)
http://typeforyou.blogspot.com/2006/08/si-scott-interview.html

Not really an artist in the same terms as the others here but still.

Tim


ill sans
10.Nov.2006 10.31am
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I sure do, Tim! Thanks!


hrant
10.Nov.2006 11.53am
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Mostafa, I love that stuff.

hhp


metofa
10.Nov.2006 10.15pm
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thanx hrant... i’ve got more ;)


T Bones
11.Nov.2006 12.40am
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Stephen,
There’re a few gems here. I particularly like the large works work of Stefan Sagmeister.


miles
11.Nov.2006 2.26am
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it has to be said - a lot of stuff suggested here that isn’t art.


rob keller
11.Nov.2006 8.34am
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hrant
11.Nov.2006 9.32am
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Miles’s comment reminds of something:
There was a guy on Typophile who was painting tableaus of letterforms.
In particular I remember one of a detail of a hedera. Very cool angle.

Rob, nice.

hhp


lore
11.Nov.2006 3.31pm
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you might find this useful:
http://typophile.com/node/18574


dezcom
11.Nov.2006 3.47pm
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April Greiman

ChrisL


hrant
11.Nov.2006 7.32pm
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Here’s that glyph tableau painter guy:
http://typophile.com/node/15101

hhp


AzizMostafa
11.Nov.2006 9.40pm
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Metofa, that piece of art does not belong to me.
See whose work and more in this Arabic site
Happy Exploring with Flowers


Hiroshige
12.Nov.2006 10.02am
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______________
Hiro


AzizMostafa
12.Nov.2006 11.47am
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Who is that Hero? Shy?


metofa
12.Nov.2006 2.48pm
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Aziz, thanx alot 4 the site... interesting


shawkash
12.Nov.2006 8.19pm
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Wow! Arabic Calligraphy is having a very good space in this topic. But I have to agree with Goran Soderstrom; I know a lot of good work of arabic calligaphy, especially here in Egypt we have some strong calligraphers! but most of arabic fonts - I have seen or even shared in making - are not having the quality that our calligraphy has. But Any way here what I can find regarding typography:
http://www.arabicfonts.com/logogallery.asp

Ahmad Shawkash


hrant
12.Nov.2006 8.32pm
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> most of arabic fonts ... are not having the quality that our calligraphy has.

Perhaps you agree, but: it does need a different kind of quality.

hhp


shawkash
12.Nov.2006 9.10pm
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Acutally, I can’t agree more.

Ahmad Shawkash


AzizMostafa
12.Nov.2006 9.10pm
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> most of arabic fonts … are not having the quality that our calligraphy has.
Plenty are the Arabic Fonts, but very few are Fonty

> Wow! Arabic Calligraphy is having a very good space in this topic.
Wow! ShawKash’s Kaligrafi is having a very good space in this topic.


Thanks with Flowers


shawkash
12.Nov.2006 9.25pm
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That link needs sometime to read before I write a comment there, and that will happen later. But from a fast reading there I can tell you have made some appreciated effort to solve some of the problem, Mr.Aziz. What about Shawkash’s calligraphy and your capture of that small movie any way. I hope nothing wrong with it :-)

Ahmad Shawkash


AzizMostafa
12.Nov.2006 9.30pm
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Ahmad Shawkash, You mean the 2 forming One heart with a flower dancing over.
Simple yet Great! I love your Fonty Animation.


shawkash
12.Nov.2006 9.36pm
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It is also appreciated you have noticed that; most of it’s veiwers at that community didn’t say anything about the flower. And from the short time chance of reading your messages here, allow me to describe you as someone in love with all world flowers.

Ahmad Shawkash


Nick Cooke
13.Nov.2006 3.21am
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Maybe not art, but a building. I’m pretty sure it says something.

It’s a hotel in Cairo.

Nick Cooke


AzizMostafa
13.Nov.2006 4.01am
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That’s right: Verses of the Glorious Quran in Kufi Style of Writing.
Nick Cooke, was it taken by you?
Regards with Flowers


cocknose
13.Nov.2006 5.14am
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fiona banner.....

she used type in her work which won the turner prize some yrs back.. with her large transcripts of porn.


Duckworth
13.Nov.2006 5.35am
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One of my favourite pieces of ’type as art’ is the video for Alex Gopher’s ’The Child’ video.

Watching something so intricate at low quality on a tiny screen size doesn’t do it justice, it’s really worth a look at in full-quality if you ever get the chance.


lore
13.Nov.2006 5.44am
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Someone told me that the institut du monde arabe
in Paris (architect Jean Nouvel) has also verses/words in its walls. I went there but I coudn’t read anything! Anyone knows something about?


Nick Cooke
13.Nov.2006 6.49am
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Aziz - yes it was taken by me.

Nick Cooke


stephen
13.Nov.2006 9.02am
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Don’t know what to say, or how to thank you all. Cept, you all sure do know your stuff!
Thanks all
Stephen.


Hiroshige
13.Nov.2006 10.08am
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>Who is that Hero? Shy?

Aziz, deleted - is part of a series I’m working on which speaks of the destruction, deconstruction and reconstruction of the written word. It may appear stupidly simple - but it ain’t.

This is a great thread, nice question stephen - I see some familiar names who have/do inspire me, and some new ones too.

__________
Hiro


j_polo9
13.Nov.2006 11.55am
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Maybe someone with a flickr account can gather images from those sugguested and compile a flickr place for them?


ivank
13.Nov.2006 4.56pm
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Marian Bantjes

http://www.bantjes.com/


ben millen
14.Nov.2006 6.47am
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a little avant-weird, but Jan Svankmajer’s films make rather extensive use of typography in fairly unprecedented ways..


AzizMostafa
14.Nov.2006 9.18am
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Hiroshige, do you know a Gentleman/Lady named XXX from XXX?
He/She does Destruction, Deconstruction and Reconstruction, All with just XXX?
Guess he/she is XXX years Old but Wondering y XXX is so XXX?
XXX Thanx with XXX


Hiroshige
14.Nov.2006 3.33pm
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_________
Hiro


dezcom
14.Nov.2006 5.00pm
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Hiro! that is freakin’ brilliant!

ChrisL


William Berkson
14.Nov.2006 5.31pm
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I don’t know if you classify this as art, but it’s brilliant stuff.


AzizMostafa
15.Nov.2006 12.04am
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Hiroshige, just one question:
How do you write 30 in Roman System?
Equal Thanks with Flowers


Mathias
15.Nov.2006 10.31am
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What about M/M (Paris) work with fashion photographers?
I Love it.

The Alphabet

&

The AlphaMen


AzizMostafa
15.Nov.2006 11.05am
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Mathias, what do you love in that precisely?


Hiroshige
16.Nov.2006 11.05pm
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Hey thanks for the comps guys!!, for some reason it means a lot to me - must be the cabernet.

________
Hiro


Hiroshige
28.Jan.2007 11.29am
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Robert Indiana

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Hiro


dsb
28.Jan.2007 12.01pm
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I love these letterpressed posters for the helvetica movie:

http://www.helveticafilm.com/shop.html#


jordy
28.Jan.2007 5.02pm
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One of my favorites is the Italian futurist Fortunato DePero whose work you can see, at among other places, here.


AzizMostafa
28.Jan.2007 9.32pm
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Conor
29.Jan.2007 4.36am
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Our ampersand poster could be considered an art project. » Contains video «

No apologies for the blatant self-promotion.


William Berkson
29.Jan.2007 5.35am
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Last week I saw Marian Bantjes presentation at the TDC.

Her work is not only wonderfully imaginative and artistically superb, but it just makes you feel happier, like the old Beatles music. A rare treasure and pleasure.


hrant
29.Jan.2007 10.13am
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I say this periodically: Bantjes is the messiah of PoMo.
So unlike the hooligans of the 90s.

hhp


mitchelka
31.May.2008 9.00am
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My work is very typographic - I hand carve linoleum alphabets and print with them on fabric dishtowels, shirts and bolts of fabric. I have an installation hanging in the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln Massachusetts:

http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2008/2008%20Annual/ahern.htm

www.electrocaster.org
mitchelka@electrocaster.org