Type Image

The contemporary works in TYPE IMAGE challenge the type/image divide and are playfully crafted into landscapes, portraits, objects, textures, and pasterns. Attention is paid to punctuation, pictorial typefaces, and designers’ takes on the contemporary mainstream use of emoticons. The projects are vibrantly three-dimensional with sculptural wordplay from jewelry design to signage to typographic landscapes envisioned in the middle of roads and neighborhood. Hanging apples are carved with curled phrases, Garamond lettering is built up out of sand and ten photographed being eroded by the rising tide, and cartographic maps are decoratively composed of neighborhood names – illustrating the creative potential of typographic imagery. 500 illustrations. 224p.