Unusual Typography

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I have just come across an interesting blog on Johnson Banks website that shows lots of great examples of hand made typography. I found the blog fascinating as it shows typography made up of pretty much anything to represent each letter of the alphabet.

Starting with the Audi advert that uses various different road signs to create the slogan for their latest billboard advertisement. I think this is a great concept and definitely gets an audience to have a good look at it to try and make out each word but I think people will become inpatient and maybe not read the whole thing.

Another great example is of the typography that is made up of everyday objects such as envelopes, books and paper to create the word 'samples'. I don't know exactly what this was used for but I think a similar idea could be used to advertise maybe a library, a book shop or a stationary shop.

The last example that I found interesting was the alphabet that is made up of photographs that look remotely like letters. This has used examples such as a cross to represent the letter T, a photograph of a bridge to represent a P and Ferrari badge turned on its side to represent the letter D. I really like the idea of this but it is quite difficult to read and make out some of letters. As a multimedia student, it would be great to see something like this in an animation, maybe even for a children's animation to learn them the alphabet or learning to count.