3D Typography

So while researching for some text to use for my magazine for our next class project I came across a man called Ebon Heath, who is a brooklyn based artist who takes typography to a different level. He creates mobiles made from collections of letters and words, and explores the endless possibilities of expressing typography in three dimensional space.








I think his work is fantastic, my favourite part of graphic design is typography and when we received our brief for a typographic project I was raring to go and have been enjoying doing draft layouts for the past few days. However, as I studied at Dundee University in first year on the general course I enjoyed being more ‘hands-on’ and creative with art, but Ebon Heath has showed here that there are no boundaries between the two and that you can merge them together and create something wonderful. As much as I see myself doing more commercial work like magazines and layouts when I leave University it is still nice to see what else is out there, what other people are creating and if anything is gives people inspiration to push your own boundaries and see what individual creations you can come up with.

Heath says, "The structures are a physical representation of our language as object. This 'visual noise' permeates all aspects of modern culture, especially urban living. From the signs, billboards, stores, and t-shirts that yell with type for attention as you walk down any high street. All the audio and verbal noise, from music we plug our ears with to the din of countless conversations, screams and whispers. With new media of texting, online, and transmitted technology there is even invisible noise silent to the eye surrounding us all. It is this cozy womb of information, data, or chorus of cacophony that my mobiles hope to represent as well as reveal: making the invisible visible."