art :: text me

Text Portraits!

Photographer Ralph Ueltzhoeffer created this unusual portraiture that turns text copy into a face. The entire work is done in gradients of text against a black background to produce the image of his subject. Ueltshoeffer was born in 1966 in Mannheim, Germany and since 1984 he has been working as a photographer. His works range from installations, such as the web-art-project “Textportrait”, to other medias like photography and personal computers.In these interesting text portraits Ueltzhoeffer adds a different dimension and value to his image by turning it into a readable biography too. Now that's JUST COOL!

via yatzer

green :: ecofont -saving ink one letter at a time

Ecofont. A font that looks good and saves ink at the same time. I like that idea! If you have a printer that prints with pricey ink like mine does (Claria High Definition Ink) then you'll welcome this new font to the pack. SPRANQ creative communications' inspiration for  ecofont came from Dutch Holey Cheese. By removing circles from inside the font without compromising the shape of each letter they came up with this decent looking font that  uses 20%  less ink! It is based on the Vera Sans, an Open Source letter, and is available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

Read more about ecofont and download it for free  at the SPRANQ website.

design :: amazing ambigrams

from scottkim

I'm sure that you've heard the word ambigram before. From wikipedia : An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion is a graphical figure that spells out one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation. The text spelled out in the other direction or orientation is often the same, but can also be a different text.

Take a looky at these amazingly designed ambigram logos.

I love this one...and the movie too ;)

You can even play around and make your own ambigram over at flipscript. I tried it - It's JUST COOL!

via logodesignlove & ambiblog

art :: Funky fonty Landscapes

Wayne White takes old thrift store paintings and jazzes them up with his own embellishments - namely words. I guess that saying that "a picture paints a thousand words" is true when it comes to his cool paintings. The former Pee Wee's playhouse set designer turns his second hand finds into beautiful funky landscapes that are definitely a little kitschy, a little funny and ALOT strange.

What made him turn from a life of producing successful music videos and decorating Pee Wee's playhouse? "I wanted something that was 180 degrees different from Pee-wee. So I decided to start painting traditional romantic American landscapes. I'd do historical scenes, giant Civil War battles, or a steamboat coming down a river. I taught myself traditional oil-painting techniques. The paintings started getting just a little weirder and a little weirder. I started putting monsters and stuff into them, but I kept the same realistic technique. And then one day I wanted to put a giant phrase in. I had one of those thrift-store landscape reproductions in the studio. I was going to take the picture out and just use the frame. But right before I did that, I looked at it and thought, Well, what would happen if I just used this ready-made landscape? It was kind of just an experiment."

His paintings are a funky concept I like! They're JUST COOL!

via boingboing and brainfarm