Can’t decide whether you like design or illustration best? No need to choose, the stunning illustrated typography in this post features the best of both worlds.
I digged this post from the Designfeedr archives, I found the post in the “draft” section of the blog’s articles and immediately knew I had made a mistake in taking it offline. Since this article dates from well before Designfeedr’s reboot it has a large amount of comments, just thought I’d mention it to avoid any possible confusion.
I had to put in the necessary work to remove the weaker pieces, add some more awesome typography and update the formatting and designer info. Definitely worth it in the end though. Enjoy!
Tony Ariawan
Tony Ariawan describes himself as a digital artist and graphic designer. He’s based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Tony didn’t attend any graphic-design school but instead educated himself. He’s deeply influenced by the beauty of the female form, light and vivid color.




Alex Trochut
Alex Trochut is a freelance designer from Barcelona, Spain. Alex manages to combine the best he’s picked up from his classic design education with modern day eye popping illustration effects.





Nik Ainley
Nik Ainley is a UK based illustrator who produces both personal and commissioned work. He rather bizarrely taught himself Photoshop in his spare time while gaining a degree in physics at Imperial College in London. He enjoyed it so much he ditched physics and moved full time into design and illustration.


Theo Aartsma
Theo Aartsma is a 27 year old designer and illustrator from the northern region of Holland. Theo currently works as a Flash/interaction designer for TFE in Groningen.




Jeff Finley
Jeff Finley’s one of the owners of Go Media along with Bill Beachy and Wilson Revehl. He’s an artist first and foremost but also has a passion for marketing and the internet. When he’s not contributing to a design project he’s usually exploiting the internet for networking, promoting and relationship building.


Chris Wicks
Chris Wicks is a John Doe Designer that I can’t tell you anything about. He’s gotten into this showcase purely on the awesomeness of the pieces below.


Pablo Alfieri
Pablo Alfiery is a designer located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work has graced the pages of Computer Arts Magazine, Slanted Magazine and more.




Craig Shields
Craig Shields is currently in his final year as a degree student studying Graphic Design at the School of art and design in Lincoln, UK. When he’s producing work for his education Craig does freelance gigs for small businesses, doing mostly illustration work.




Emeric Trahand
Emeric Trahand is a graphic designer, art director and illustrator. Emeric , known as Takeshi online, has established himself as a freelance graphic designer in France in mid 2006 and has already been commissionned by a diverse array of companies and publications worldwide.


Rodrigo Braga
Rodrigo Braga is a 30 years old brazilian Art Director, Dj and Illustrator based in Montreal / Amsterdam. He’s been working in Interactive Projects since 2003 at Agência Click and Tribo Interactive for clients such as Johnson & Johnson’s, Nestlé and FIAT.



Daniel Gordon
Daniel Gordon is a designer/creative director who does a variety of work on a daily basis. Graphics for t-shirts, album covers, websites, magazines, entire marketing campaigns or personal projects – you name it, he’s done it.


Luke Lucas
Luke Lucas is a designer from Melbourne, Australia with a taste for shiny, metallic and often retro inspired design. Definitely my type of guy.




Si Scott
After gaining a degree in graphic design at Buckinghamshire University College, Si Scott used his skills to develop a characteristic style which combines hand-inked and penned artwork with modern typography.


Kliment Kalchev
Kliment Kalchev is a designer based in Sofia, Bulgeria. Info on Kliment is scarce – you’ll have to make due with the pretties below.


Nicolas Alexander
Nicolas Alexander is a graphic designer passionate about type and motion graphics. He’s currently working at Much&MuchMore music as a motion designer.








chantix Says:
wow, beautiful post. i especially love the neon letters from marconi!
August 19th '08Jeff Finley Says:
Awesome list, there are some new things I haven’t seen before. Thanks for including one of Go Media’s typography pieces. I’ve posted the link to your article to my twitter followers!
August 19th '08Chad Engle Says:
Agreed Jeff!! Some stuff I have not seen. I found it through your twitter feed which I am now hooked on.
August 19th '08Danny Tatom Says:
That’s some amazing stuff, I especially like the Empire one.
August 19th '08Shawn Says:
Great stuff! :)
August 20th '08Fubiz Says:
Simply beautiful.
August 20th '08Max | Design Shard Says:
I cant get enough typography, awesome post, bookmarking for reference.
Max | Design Shard
August 20th '08Brian Says:
Such a great post – some really incredible features and of course, inspiring typography. Great work and stumbled :)
August 20th '08Janusz 'Kali' Kaliszczak Says:
Wonderful! Simple type and a tones of great imagination bring us real pack of wonders.
August 21st '08Lawrence Mann Says:
I’ve done a bit of type design as well. Take a look at my branding section. there’s a Book title for ‘The Book Of The Forever Dead’ that some of you may like.
http://www.onemannbrand.co.uk
Enjoy! and don’t be afraid to email me feedback from my site!
Lawrence.
August 24th '08Darryll Says:
just came across this site from browzing here and there. BRILLIANT!! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!! each pic has a life of its own.
August 26th '08Acomplia Says:
I just came across this site while stumbling here and there. EXCELLENT!! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!! each picture has a stunning effect.
August 28th '08projectgrfix Says:
Looks nice, thanks. thumbs up for you in stumble :)
August 31st '08Nathan Says:
Good collection of nice typography. I like the Nicolas Alexander piece.
September 1st '08elaz Says:
wow these are pretty cool..i especially like the “forget the past look to the future”
September 2nd '08sravkum Says:
Nice collection you can find some more at:
http://picks.wittysparks.com/tagged/Typography
September 3rd '08cchana Says:
enjoyed looking at every single one! really good collection of some great uses of typography. dugg and stumbled!
September 3rd '08Jayne Roceo Says:
Cheers, is such an interesting topic! It’s hard to find good information on business letters samples but it’s all here!
September 5th '08K Says:
Great post! I LOVE Craig Shields and Alfieri.
September 20th '08Also, the smoke text is flippin to die for!
Incredible work.
Love Lockdown Says:
Also stumbled here. Simply amazing. I love the ones by Theo Aartsma. Anywhere I could go to learn how to do something like this?
September 21st '08NetOperator Wibby Says:
Wow, so much inspiration from this post! Definitely gave me a few ideas of my own.
October 4th '08Logotype Says:
Wow – That was soem amazing images – I guess there is no limit to creativity!
October 11th '08Fabrice Says:
really nice typo works !! thanks..
December 6th '08Seb Says:
Just love the play one!
December 11th '08checker Says:
I love the ones by Theo Aartsma.
December 16th '08Euan Says:
Some great work there, thanks for sharing :)
I especially like the last two.
January 5th '09DevTouch Says:
Some of these are absolutely superb! I especially love the Requiem!
March 16th '09School dude Says:
Nice pics dude.
April 15th '09Antonis Says:
Nice, but now “wow”!
May 28th '09Tuts King Says:
The Beautiful/Decay is amazing.
August 10th '09Nicola Says:
Fantastic collection of dynamic typography! It’s really impressive to see the unique variety of styles used to bring the type alive. There’s some brilliant examples here of how designers can push the boundaries between word and image, in many cases creating a harmonious ‘experience’ of colourful communication. The use of contrasting light and dark in the pieces serve to intensify the impact on the viewer and certainly produce striking results!
September 16th '09Nardyello Says:
A dark background definitely makes any color pop out. These look amazing!
Thanks for sharing! :D
September 20th '09Todd Says:
There’s some absolute stunners in here !!
Surely Photoshop OWNS design nowdays.
October 1st '09