53 Mind-blowing Uses of Typography
Typography is an ancient foundation of graphic design. As any good designer knows, the way that words are presented has a powerful influence on the way they are interpreted by the viewer. Here we’ve collected 53 stunning uses of typography by eight different designers. We hope you’re inspired by this selection!
1. Fabiano Hikaru Higashi
I couldn’t find an official portfolio website for Fabiano Hikaru Higashi so I can’t tell you much about him. What I can tell you is that he is a younger designer from Brazil. He is a big fan of both movies and music and I think it shows in the samples of is work that I included. He enjoys working with typographic and vector related projects.
2. Karl Kwasny
Karl Kwasny is another somewhat young designer. At just twenty four years old he has worked some much bigger names than I will probably ever have the chance to. Some of his past clients include brands like Rip Curl, Coca Cola, and Warner Brothers Records. Just a few glimpses at some of his work will show you why he has a long list of big name clients.
3. Ivan Vidovic
Ivan Vidovic does both graphic design and motion design. His family is originally from Bosnia, but moved to the States in 1996. Like many designers, Ivan started out young with just scribbles and doodles. He currently takes classes at the Art Institute of Portland where he hopes to expand his skills as a graphic and motion designer.
4. Kasper
Kasper is a Danish designer who currently lives in Roskilde, Denmark. He recently started a design internship with a major design firm there called re-public. He is a truly talented typography and poster designer that works in Windows XP. Yes, that are some talented designers who work with Windows. He has quite a trendy style that he has seem to make his own.
5. Stefano Joker Lionetti
Stefano Joker Lionetti is an Italian designer based in Milano, Italy. According to his portfolio website, he currently works with a design company called Zetalab Studio where he works as a graphic design studio. He has a huge fetish for all things type and typography related. My favorite comment from his portfolio; “Please don’t ask me to set a text in Arial, Comic Sans or Times New Roman: I’m definitely not interested on it.”
6. Patswerk Grafisch Ontwerp
Patswerk Grafisch Ontwerp’s portfolio is in another language so I can tell you zero things about him. What I can tell you is that his work is pretty freakin’ sweet. He has lots of bold colors, hand drawn fonts, and creative illustrations. From t-shirts to poster, this guy has a little bit of everything.
7. Sébastien Nikolaou
Sébastien Nikolaou is another talented and young designer. Born in 1985 in Greece, Sébastien Nikolaou knew early on that he wanted to do something creative with his life. His passions have evolved from drawing, to graffiti, and finally into graphic design. Sébastien Nikolaou is currently studying graphic design in Greece.
8. Robin Libbrecht
I’ll finish of the list with, you guessed it, another talented and young designer. Robin Libbrecht is a design student with a love for typography and music. His interest in hardcore and punk music can really be seen in some of his other works not listed here.
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great stuff, really great! I am blown away.
some really great pieces
Very impressive stuff
Perfectt list and very enjoyed reading, well done
ah, hell yeah! awesome post. cheers!
m gatsman your a cunt and you know you are
Its great… Inspiring.. YEAHH!!!
I ll try my self now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..
Thanks a lot
Awesome list, thanks for compiling these!
Great stuff. Love them all!
thanks for posting this typographical awesomeness ^^
Awesome post! This has gave me alot of ideas
Thanks
i love it , wonderful post
Great work, thanks
An amazing collection of inspirational ideas. Thanks!
cool ! it inspired me today !
http://b-82.deviantart.com/art/the-GOSSIP-wallpaper-121831662
I enjoy these inspirational sections. They help you break out of your normal design ruts.
I enjoy even more laughing at the negative comments about some of the designs. Always a “just graduated design school” genius out there trying to be the pointiest hat in the room.
Please… been working for many years, and some of these are just plain visual garbage.
Not even graduated school yet, and I’m not trying to be the “pointiest hat in the room” as you say. As an illustrator and a student, I just think a lot of them suck. That’s my personal opinion. I can’t stand the “grunge” and cute style that’s become popular, and I find it hard to read or typically without much discernable visual content. Nowhere in that statement am I saying that my opinion is based in absolute fact or that anyone has to take it as a divine pronouncement on the state of design in our world.
So before you go and make an ass of yourself by making the general statement that negative comments are always “just graduated design school”, try and think about how stupid it makes you sound.
Please, get off yoru high horse. A lot of these are very strong and this is by far the best round up of typography based posters ever. But many of these posters sucked ass big time. BIG TIME.
This is a cool post!, I am inspired
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I love this stuff.
Swiss design, classic!
HOT. I love it!
Very fine!
Great inspiration!!!
Great stuff! Inspirational
Good inspiration. lovely collection
Great list!
I especially love Sébastien Nikolaou and Patswerk Grafisch Ontwerp’s works. i love their typography and color choices. Very bold and really eye-catching!
Some of them aren’t as mind-blowing as others, but they’re all pretty neat. Typography is not one of my strong areas, so I’m easily impressed.
aw.. I love typography.. thanks for the list! very nice!
what a wonderful collection of work
typography love — very inspirational…
Thank you for these — brightened up my day
I love thz fact you took the time to really sort the designs per deisgner, and mentioned their name and some short information about them! I wish more people did such things!
And I hope one day my name appears in a blogpost like this
Crazy
This is an awesome list!
great designs.. nice list.. thanks.
Just what I needed to spark some imagination tonight. Thanks for the great selection!
seems like every other stumble i get is of “awesome” “great” or “brilliant” typography or graphic design. nothing original really anymore. b*tch at my comment if you want, but when is someone going to come up with something fresh. seems like everyone is doing this style of typography and design now a-day, just like every pop singer now thinks they can sing just because they use a vocoder (that makes their voice sound like a robot, disguising that they really cannot sing). don’t get me wrong, these are cool, but we need to move beyond calling this stuff mind blowing, blow my mind with something fresh!
This is a great collection and it refreshes my brain with new ideas (many I’ve seen before though). I would love to see some of these perhaps in other languages (Arabic). I might have to make a few if not many are out there on the net.
makes me want to be creative right now on the spot
Wow, this is a great round-up. Thanks
These are absolutely beautiful! Very inspiring indeed
Some great work, very inspiring!
these look photoshopped to me. I can tell from the pixels and from having seen a few shops in my time.
Are you sure they aren’t just scans from dusty old Graphic Design text books?
Thanks for sharing, all of them looks really good.
I’m with you on this one, jackson5. Several of these designs use exactly the same template too, which blew my mind even less. Nothing I haven’t seen before, but a fairly decent collection of examples of classic typography (i.e. really old – some of these concepts are from the 1920′s or earlier).
The Best Article of all!
congratulations psdtuts!
One I think that belongs here is the Venture Bros. Skull Logo it’s a genius idea.
thanks fer this. it really inspires & gives off so many ideas.
I love it – great stuff!
I love it! But the one with the lazy dog thing irks me. WIDOW ALERT! WIDOW ALERT! Widows = Not good.
These are great! Nice compilation.
Simply delicious…ILOVETYPOGRAPHY
I love it, great stuff.
these are great! top list, especially liking Patswerk Grafisch Ontwerp. thanks!
very nice thanks for the update.
great designs.God job!