Type-based Illustrators

Ronald Kurniawan, is a unique painter I came across who paints a mix of fantastic images and text. His clients span from Sony Pictures Entertainment, General Mills and LA weekly. Although he may not fall in the category of solely a type-based illustrator, he work is very thought provoking.

This is Mr. Kurniawan's depiction of a Wall Street exec that has lost everything during these hard financial times:

"Anxiety" 

"New Identity for MACuser magazine"

Linh Chi, is a graphic designer based in Ha Noi, Vietnam. I saw her typographic portrait of Nelly Furtado and had to post. I love the simplicity.

"Nelly Furtado Typographic Portrait"

This next example of typography portraiture is from an art student based in the UK. She goes by the screename, Goblina, and she has an extensive array of digital work, charcoal drawings and photography.

"Screaming"

 Had to add this one too, even though its not a type portrait:

"Art Page"

This next example is also done by an art student based in the UK named Scott Sudale. His typography project of the Joker is a great piece, had to post.

 

This next image is a piece I did about a decade ago in black India ink. The typography portraiture just reminded me of it since I used letters and numbers to fill in some of the tiles and give the picture different values.

"Pondering Indian"