Typography Art

("Loft" from thomasbroome.se)

Typically words are accented by images to communicate some sort of information. People usually separate the two eve when they are together in some form of design. What about when you literally create an image out of words? This can be seen in typography and ASCII art. These methods involve the production of images using nothing but text characters and the manipulation of color.

(From http://ursispaltenstein.ch/blog/images/uploads_img/ascii_2.jpg)

There are many different types of this art. One form is ASCII art. ASCII (ask-ee) is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange and represents 128 characters that are used to represent text in computers and other communication equipment. Only 94 of these characters are actually printable and can be used to create combinations of letters, numbers, words, and sentences. The art consists of only the characters being used and spaced appropriately to give an image it's detail.

Besides the ASCII art, there is other text art that uses full words and sentences as well as the incorporation of color. These can be seen in the work of Swedish artist Thomas Broomé. Broomé does his work by hand, creating images that are completely composed of the words of the graphic content itself. Piece's like “It's Only Words (Lana)” depict lifelike images by simply using color and the names of features in the image.This type of art truly takes words and images to the utmost literal sense, leaving the artist and the audience with a clever and appealing visual experience.

("It's Only Words" Thomas Broome)

Typography art is not always conveying a message, as seen with ASCII. It also may appear to be more for an awe effect of the amount of time the work must have required. However both are interesting ways of combining text and image into one coherent and appealing image.