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Breathtaking Typographic Posters

February 25th, 2008 in Fonts, Inspiration | 192 Comments

You can’t design without type. However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicate their ideas through their works. The results are sometimes crazy, sometimes artsy, sometimes beautiful, but often just different from things we’re used to. Thus designers explore new horizons and we explore new viewing perspectives which is what inspiration is all about.

You can’t design without type: this is an argument for it.

This post showcases over 50 breathtaking typographic posters designed by artists across the globe. We feature Oriental, Iranian, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese and Russian typographic posters as well as a number of further references. This isn’t a “best of”, there is no ranking and the collection isn’t supposed to be complete; it’s rather subjective and quite random. All screenshots are clickable; however, links not always lead directly to the corresponding image (e.g. it’s impossible in Flash-based sites) — sometimes you’ll need to search for it.

You may also want to take a look at the article Typography In Motion we’ve published few months ago.

So what can be achieved out of simple letters and symbols? Please be patient, some screenshots are huge.

Breathtaking Typographic Posters

Christina Koehn / University of Washington, USA

Screenshot

Alex Banks / United Kingdom

Emiliano Lionel Suárez / Argentina

Juanma Teixidó / Asunción, Paraguay

Emil Kozak / Spain

Pablo Alfieri / Buenos Aires, Argentina

HeyHo / France

Vincent Bousserez / Paris, France

Drew Kora / Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

in the lab

Aron Jancso / Budapest, Hungary

Andre Bergamin / Brazil

Oh Ishi / Siam, Thailand

Alejandro Paul / Buenos Aires, Argentina

mrgraphicsguy / Germany

lee25 / United Kingdom

Shaun Morrison / Brighton, England

25ah / Stockholm, Sweden

Andy Cambiaso / Argentina

Puerto Baires / Buenos Aires, Argentina

Todd Roeth / USA

Piotr Fedorczyk / Florence, Italy

Noel Tanner / Minneapolis, USA

Kate Andrews / London, United Kingdom

Experimental Jetset / Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lennart Wolfert / Netherlands

Farhad Fozuni / Iran

Yaronimus Maximus / Israel

Bunch / USA

Playful applications for the 55DSL 2007 Christmas instore incentive. Tape and posters were designed and sent to each store where the staff were then encouraged to get creative with what they taped up to win 555 GBP worth of prizes.

Alex Trochut / Spain

Arjo Wiggins Poster

Pixelgarten / Germany

Apirat Infahsaeng / New York

Screenshot

Poster announcing Brian Collins’ lecture Design Changes Everything.

MAISON DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Création de la nouvelle identité visuelle.
Projet non retenu.

Purple Haze / Germany

Rote Sonne Club (2007). Poster design for a clubnight.

Think Experimental / France

Aaron Pou / USA

Maxime Delporte / France

Job Wouters / Netherlands

In collaboration with Roel Wouters. Printed by Knust.
Folded A3 flyers for Jungstar (formaly known as Zeitgeist) a bimonthly party held at the sugarfactory organised by the MRKMLN-group.

Zak Group

There’s always work in progress / you’re always a work in progress.

Sterk Water / Belgium

Poster made for a expo of a local art school promoting the free grahics and the sculpturing department.

C100 / Germany

A Club Poster from Berlin

Mark Andrew Webber / Falmouth, England

Hanna Czapka / Germany

Bonus

Job Woulters
80 of 500 handdrawn typographic posters by Job Wouters are shown in a 3 minute filmclip by Roel Wouters. The posters promote the students final works at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. The handwriting is… beautiful.