I’m sure most of us heard of these memorable saying that goes like "A good sketch is better than a long speech" or "A picture is worth a thousand words". Sometimes, even the most complicated issue and matter can be simplified and expressed over a single image. That’s just how incredible images are; but today I want to show you something different, a hybrid of both.
Here’s a showcase of a very unique approach to portrait illustrations. These images below are mixtures of both images and typography, where the latter is used to shape the portraits while the words within have messages to deliver. It is just amazing how manipulation of font types, sizes and keywords can form a great portrait artwork with inner meaning. Full list after jump.
Burdened Barrack Obama | Dylanroscover
Self Portrait | Saluum
Mother Teresa | Dencii
Mahatma Gandhi | Dencii
John Lennon | Dencii
Martin Luther King, Jr | Dencii
Self Portrait | Stacy Benson
Self Portrait | Stacey Grove
"Screaming" | Goblina
Self Portrait | Vic198x
Self Portrait | Le0arts
Mos Def a.k.a Dante Terrell Smith-Bey | DilsJ
Lady Gaga | Skye Shettle
Scott Weiland | Steve Butabi
Erik Spiekermann | Steve Butabi
Nelly Furtado | Steve Butabi
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails | Maxdoming
Bono of U2 | CaliburlessSoul
Self Portrait | Laemmen
Self Portrait | Hworangi107
Self Portrait | Fostic-Popcorn
Self Portrait | EclecticPhoenix
E.B. Portrait | Akeiron
Morgan Freeman | Straye-Close
Marilyn Manson | CaliburlessSoul
Thom Yorke | tbwachiat
Lil Wayne | tbwachiat
humans | Miss–Dee
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Posted by hongkiat in Inspiration , at 02.03.10
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Comments
Nimit Kashyap February 3rd, 2010
very good work.
ReplyDarth February 3rd, 2010
Je ne parle pas anglais, mais ce site est vraiment superbe.
Grâce à lui j’ai pu faire quelques belles réalisation.
Malheureusement, elle fond pâle figure face à ce qui est montré là.
Voilà, c’était mon petit encouragement !
ReplyGaelicAU February 3rd, 2010
These are obviously done by overlaying a photo using text within a software package. But which one?
ReplyBigM75 February 4th, 2010
das ist so graßartig einfach genial
Replyyoyomandroid February 4th, 2010
Good! Good!
ReplyIf only there is a Typography Portraits Art generator, it would be fantastic.
Nagobonar February 4th, 2010
I agree wit yoyomandroids. I like to have my own picture with text over it
Replypato morales February 4th, 2010
hey… look my work http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Frei/245925 if the admin of this site wanna post my work … no problem
ReplySilver Moon Fotografía February 4th, 2010
Stunning!!!!
Good Job!!!!
ReplySilver Moon Fotografía February 4th, 2010
GaelicAU,
Here do you’ve got an idea about how to do the simpliest ones!
http://www.psdtop.com/blog/photo-effects/typographic-portrait-like-grammys-posters/comment-page-1/#comment-16278
enjoy it !
ReplyYILKA February 4th, 2010
All look marvelous ^^ nice ideas too, thanks :)
ReplyDssBlog February 4th, 2010
really nice example
Replyi love how they design the typo portraits
really cool stuff
Sanjeev February 4th, 2010
Very nice stuff.
Bookmarked
ReplyChristian Logan February 4th, 2010
These typographic faces look awesome!
ReplyGreat collection :)
Pooja_36 February 4th, 2010
Hey this is so amazing :D thanks
ReplyPooja_36 February 4th, 2010
Ayiii gracias
Thank you so much
ReplyWill try with my image today
Muhammad Faisal Jawaid Attari February 4th, 2010
Awesome mind blowing…. how did all that…
Replythanks for sharing..
Adam Almendras February 4th, 2010
This is so AMAZING! I wish to have one someday…
ReplySoft Skills February 5th, 2010
Beautiful art :D
Replyloswl February 5th, 2010
These are awesome, wish there was a tutorial :o)
Replyalyssa February 5th, 2010
WOW… just WOW
ReplyNamsaksiT February 5th, 2010
It’s a great typography portrait artwork. Nice! ^ ^
ReplyRich February 5th, 2010
awesome set of images! thank you for sharing this and doing the research for us all to discover. i will definitely be referencing this time to time.
i just want to mention an excellent place for typography is http://www.pilo.me – it by far is the most complete and solid font forum i have visited. you can definitely find similar resources as you have mentioned here at pilo. anyhow, give it a look if you are a type lover. i think it is invite only or it usually is at least, so good luck getting in. if you do get in, be sure to participate as i know they remove deadbeat users time to time.
thanks again for the excellent links!
ReplyRob Repta February 6th, 2010
Looks like a lot of people referenced the same Layer’s tutorial lol
Replyhttp://www.layersmagazine.com/photoshop-cs4-a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words.html
adrian February 7th, 2010
Here http://apps.facebook.com/calligrammes/?id=156 you can make something similar
ReplyJava developer February 7th, 2010
Some works are really great. Very nice :)
Replypeter Sena February 8th, 2010
These are amazing. I really love seeing Type make up images.
Replypeter Sena February 8th, 2010
Seen some of these before they are really awesome and inspiring. Love Hongkiat its like sex for my RSS reader :)
ReplyWisatakaltim February 10th, 2010
awesome pict
Replynice
federico Massarotto February 11th, 2010
nuoooooooooooo!!!
SO GREAT!!!
ReplyPamukkale Branda February 11th, 2010
Denizli Canvas , Canvas Denizli Thank you
Replyoparaah February 12th, 2010
=.t.a.l.e.n.t.!.=.f.r.e.s.h.!=.b.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l.!.
ReplySeni Budaya February 13th, 2010
Really Great…amazing Kiat..
ReplyVector February 21st, 2010
To learn, and very grateful author!
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