typographic picture !!!!!

this is an example of a typographic portrate image, this was done as part of the 51st grammy awards, this was done by the recording company who hired TBWA\chiat\day to product the typographic illiustrations , that was choosen to create a ad for the celebration of the 51st grammy awards. the posters where created in feb 8th 2009 as part of the grammy awards. this was all part of the commintion of the adwards. the reason that i have chosen to anaylse this is because i think that it is a new way of creating a picture and it changes simple photgraphy into a graphic design which i think gives photgraphy a whole new look and makes it stand out and look great.   to further understand the posters i have looked into the reason behind the workhttp://www.spinner.com/2009/01/13/steve-wonder-thom-yorke-get-artsy-for-grammys/ and i have found out that the posters where created by asking each artist for a list of their favourt songs at least 15 and one of their own. this was then turned into the typographic picture, by taking a photgraph of the artist and by using photoshop and the lyrics from the songs, the images have been edited and colour with texted add to turn the photo into all text that creates the picture of the artist.

when i first saw this artwork i instantly was drawn to it, i wanted to know more about it and how it was done thats how i knew it would be good to look at. and i saw all the bright colours and thats what got my attention also i have never seen a photo been made out of type before. i dont have any negatives about this work, i love the colours and also how its different colours because thats what makes it even more interesting. when i look at this worki i get reminded of all different songs and different artist it brings back alot of memories and thats why i think it works so well because its suposed to make you think of music. i have been inspired to go and create my own using my favourt artist, as i love the look of this way of designing.

this was my own attempt at making the typographic picture, and i did this by getting a image of a celebrity but when i was choosing i wanted to make sure that it was relevant to my summer projects which is to make a album about summer and summer songs, so i had this in mind when i was picking my picture, i also wanted to make sure the picture was suitable to be turned into a typographic picture so the picture had to be clear and have a clear shot of the artist face, this is also to keep in tune with the 51st grammy ads that where created. the picture above is a picture of Beyonce and lyrics from her song love on top, the reason i chose to do this was because i wanted the song love on top to go on my summer album and also i chose this picture because i think that it has a good view of the face and is also looks like she's having fun which is also reflecting the summer album. i created the image on photoshop by firstly turning the image i found into grey scale so i had a fresh image to work from and then added the lyrics onto and then added colour i also used the brush tool to make the definition of the face and the artist stand out more and adds more details.

i think that this worked really well for the first attempt and overall turned out how it was expected to, i love the use of colour that is my best part, because to me the colours represent summers and they are really bright and happy colours which is good to reflect the album, i think that also the text that comes through onto the picture is really good and i think the wavy hair adds a great effect to the image. if i wad to do this again i would probably add more lyrics and experiment more with sizes and different fonts, i also think that i could expand on this by playing with other colours and again the text as that is the main part of the picture.

this was my second attempt at creating the typographic picture with the same technique, but with this one i played about with the steps that you take to get to the final piece, to create a different outcome at the end to see how it would look. to get this effect i did the fist steps by turning the image grey scale on photoshop and then i only made the lyrics colour. i think that this worked really well and the outcome worked better than what i thought it would.

this time when making this image, i played around with the text more and experimented with the different sizes and shades of text, which i think worked a lot better than my first attempt and this time you can see that the lyrics more. the colours i played about with again and to me this looks summery and also rich with the yellow. and i think that it came out really well and how i wanted it to look. and i think playing about with the steps really paid off and created a really good new design.

this was the same picture but this time i completed the steps the same way as i did with my first atempt. i played about with the colours more and i also really wanted to keep the summer feel in tune with it. i think that it worked really well and this was definitely by far my best picture. i love the different texts and also the ray of colours to me it just grabs your attention and thats exactly what it should do as it needs to be effective to make people passing by see it and notice it.

if i was to keep expanding on this work i would definitely want to make it more in the style of the grammy ads and gain more skills to turn it into a better picture with more of the text making up the image of the artist and also i would add different fonts and play around with the text and the effects that could be done to it.

but overal i'm really happy with the outcome of all my images that i created and i think that it worked well and it reached my aim and also the end results. i especially liked playing around with the steps and creating a completely different image and out come i think that worked really well.