Am I Collective

This is one of many typographical illustrations that design team Am I Collective has created for Dockers Pants. This design creates the silhouette of a man wearing their brand of pants. The entire type is created out of things that manly men hold in their pockets to show that these pants are for any kind of man. The illustration has different fonts throughout the piece to create font variation and to create implied texture. The tagline is located directly in the middle of the illustration and  says, "Pockets for hiding your various man things". This line is in a larger font which creates typographical hierarchy. Am I Collective is a design and animation firm that has created designs for companies such as Adobe, Apple, BBC, HP, Red Bull, Converse, NBA, Nike, The XGames, and many more. I like this piece a lot in the way that it creates a living illustration from type and that when you first see this design you don't see a bunch of words, but rather a man wearing his Docker cargo pants. Am I Collective clearly knows what they are doing when it comes to illustration and marketing and they truly know how to connect their product to their targeted market.

Teagan White

Teagan White is a designer and illustrator who works on very detailed and anatomically correct illustrations and using those illustrations to replace some of the type in her designs. The entire design uses elements of the body to spell out the phrase, while also showing very interesting detail to body parts. The line that reads "person" is made of body parts; the line "you love" has a heart; the line "is 72.8%" is sketched out and looks very scientific; and the line "water" has an almost water like look to it. The typography itself is center aligned and is a tad off. None of the lines match up on the edges and since the word "water" is in a lighter, less detailed design it does have a small weight issue. The color choice for the line "you love" is great and shows the blue veins turning red as they approach the heart. Also the word "the" is very small and could be lost in the design. Although the "the" could be small so the illustration is the main focus, there is no way that the quote could be missed or under appreciated. White has a long list of clients who appreciate her hipster style of design. She has worked for such clients as Coke, Sprite, Target, Wired Magazine, The NFL, and Nike. The designs White puts together has a very unique feel and I really like her typographical realism.

Nothing Can Stop A Good Idea by Mauro Hernandez

Nothing Can Stop A Good Idea is a design created by Mauro Hernandez. This design shows clear and easy to read type while also showing a message of motion. The lines that connect at the top of the "N"s, and the line that comes from the "I" create an implied motion through the illustration. I lines also show that the motion is never stopping and that adds to the actual meaning of the type. This is a great example of how to bring an illustration idea into the actual type to create an appealing design element, while also giving the type more meaning. This design uses a very gradual gradient and helps to make the words look separate, while also looking uniform. On thing that is nice is that this piece does is in the center, but is not confined to center justification. Hernandez works as a freelance designer who has made designs for Nike, Grooveshark, and The Vega Surf Festival. I really like the design and the use of a very subtle texture in the type. There is a lot of negative space and the additional type is all stuck in the bottom right hand side. This does make the bottom look a little heavier than the rest of the image around the illustration.

Typography

Typography is a design created by Sam Morris, a web designer for the news website, The Guardian". This design creates the letter "T" out of different key phrases that are related to typography. This is a very simple and creative design that has a lot to show about typography. There is type variation to create interest and difference of appearance. There are some issues of consistency within the spacing of the type, but the type itself is clean. I also like the variation in color to create form and directs the audiences eye around the image. Since it follows the shape of the letter, there is a lot of implied lines and direction. I also like that the design is slanted because it provides visual appeal rather than just a centered design. This slant also creates an implied motion and helps to make the design look more alive. The fact that "ypography" is significantly smaller than the "T" does make this a little bit harder to read, but I think this is a really cool design and shows that typography is more of a science than just a technique or element.

Thomas Price

Thomas Price is a graphic designer who believes that design is a part of life that is engrained into and its something you can't ever turn off. Just like one's artistic talent is a part of who someone is, so is their religious beliefs. In this typographical illustration Price shows an entire verse of the Bible and explains an entire thought in one illustration. The great thing about using a Bible verse is that it shows more than just a sentence or saying, but also an entire message, view of faith, and witness. This design is great and shows hierarchy by using larger type to show God's importance and that the word "Live" is a very important part of this message. The use of hierarchy in this illustration shows the message made in the words, but also uses visual cues like hierarchy and font type to create additional understanding of the importance of the words. The different uses of fonts for this design is really nice and adds additional definition to each word. Using a bolder and more attractive font for the words "I AM" shows God's majesty and strength and that He should be the focus of our life. The only thing I think is distracting about this design is that the line between "and the life" and "whoever believes" looks like it could be an "I". I would fix that by using an illustration of something relating to the design to break up those two sections of type without making them look as if they're actually one block. I think over all this flows well and gives a very relaxing look to a joyful verse. I think that typographical designs like this that give that hand-drawn feel could be used well as decoration in homes or as posters.

Zombies

This typographical illustration is by designer, Sion Lee. She is a mostly a website designer with such websites as, The Awesomer, Not Always Right, and Ubiki. This design is the image of a human hand turned zombie and is recreating the very well known scene of a zombie hand reaching up. This hand is made entirely out of text and features references to 978 different zombie games, movies, and books. There is a lot to say about the uniqueness of this piece, but the design is fantastic. The shading and use of different colors and shades creates depth and implied textures. The green helps show decay and show that this is a zombie hand and not a regular human hand, the white shows where the bones are, and the red shows the muscles and where the skin could even possibly be torn off. The direction of the type creates motion and helps guide the eyes of the audience very well and brings their eyes through the entire piece. Using font variation helps bring interest in and makes people look closer and study the piece for a longer time. This is an awesome design!

Great Value

The Campbell's soup can is well known and is very nicely designed. This is a very professional and stylish design that creates the idea in the consumer's mind that this is the best quality soup available and that they should buy this over any other brand. The Great Value soup can goes the other way. The design is very simple and pushes the idea that this is soup, but not an expensive soup. The font style is bold and plain. The name is even suggesting that price is more important than quality. The Campbell's can also contains added content and features info about the soup's contents, the other can just features the name, flavor, and an image of mushrooms. The Great Value can shows the consumer that this product is about affordability and not just about taste. This is a great design even though it is simplistic. It shows the main info about the product, without overcomplicating the design or making the design make the product seem more important than it actually is. This is a layout for providing this type of imagery and for this product's targeted group of consumers.