Breathtaking Typographic Posters

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You can’t design without type. However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicate their ideas through their works. The results are sometimes crazy, sometimes artsy, sometimes beautiful, but often just different from things we’re used to. Thus designers explore new horizons and we explore new viewing perspectives which is what inspiration is all about.

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You can’t design without type: this is an argument for it.

This post showcases over 50 breathtaking typographic posters designed by artists across the globe. We feature Oriental, Iranian, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese and Russian typographic posters as well as a number of further references. This isn’t a “best of”, there is no ranking and the collection isn’t supposed to be complete; it’s rather subjective and quite random. All screenshots are clickable; however, links not always lead directly to the corresponding image (e.g. it’s impossible in Flash-based sites) — sometimes you’ll need to search for it.

You may also want to take a look at the article Typography In Motion we’ve published few months ago.

So what can be achieved out of simple letters and symbols? Please be patient, some screenshots are huge.

Breathtaking Typographic Posters

Christina Koehn / University of Washington, USA

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Alex Banks / United Kingdom

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Emiliano Lionel Suárez / Argentina

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Juanma Teixidó / Asunción, Paraguay

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Emil Kozak / Spain

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Pablo Alfieri / Buenos Aires, Argentina

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HeyHo / France

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Vincent Bousserez / Paris, France

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Drew Kora / Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

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in the lab

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Aron Jancso / Budapest, Hungary

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Andre Bergamin / Brazil

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Oh Ishi / Siam, Thailand

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Alejandro Paul / Buenos Aires, Argentina

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mrgraphicsguy / Germany

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lee25 / United Kingdom

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Shaun Morrison / Brighton, England

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25ah / Stockholm, Sweden

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Andy Cambiaso / Argentina

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Puerto Baires / Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Todd Roeth / USA

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Piotr Fedorczyk / Florence, Italy

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Noel Tanner / Minneapolis, USA

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Kate Andrews / London, United Kingdom

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Experimental Jetset / Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Lennart Wolfert / Netherlands

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Farhad Fozuni / Iran

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Yaronimus Maximus / Israel

Bunch / UK

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Playful applications for the 55DSL 2007 Christmas instore incentive. Tape and posters were designed and sent to each store where the staff were then encouraged to get creative with what they taped up to win 555 GBP worth of prizes.

Alex Trochut / Spain

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Arjo Wiggins Poster

Pixelgarten / Germany

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Apirat Infahsaeng / New York

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Poster announcing Brian Collins’ lecture Design Changes Everything.

MAISON DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE Création de la nouvelle identité visuelle.
Projet non retenu.

Purple Haze / Germany

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Rote Sonne Club (2007). Poster design for a clubnight.

Think Experimental / France

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Aaron Pou / USA

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Maxime Delporte / France

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Job Wouters / Netherlands

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In collaboration with Roel Wouters. Printed by Knust.
Folded A3 flyers for Jungstar (formaly known as Zeitgeist) a bimonthly party held at the sugarfactory organised by the MRKMLN-group.

Zak Group

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There’s always work in progress / you’re always a work in progress.

Sterk Water / Belgium

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Poster made for a expo of a local art school promoting the free grahics and the sculpturing department.

C100 / Germany

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A Club Poster from Berlin

Mark Andrew Webber / Falmouth, England

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Hanna Czapka / Germany

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Bonus

Job Woulters
80 of 500 handdrawn typographic posters by Job Wouters are shown in a 3 minute filmclip by Roel Wouters. The posters promote the students final works at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. The handwriting is… beautiful.

References and Resources

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. Vitaly is writer, speaker, author and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.

  1. 101

    This place is Hot. Me prende.. Well done! & thanks..

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  2. 102

    all of them were simply amazing.thankyou.good job buddy!!!

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  3. 103

    Fantastic :)

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  4. 104

    amazing stuff! does anyone know how to create a letter like in Piotr Fedorczyk’s poster? Im struggling to find any similar tutorial… Thanks

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  5. 105

    Very nice.

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    Bharat Prajapati

    July 5th, 2010 10:44 pm

    Really Nice….

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    ElMotaheda Web

    August 15th, 2010 2:48 am

    Good job! Good collection, Excellent work

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  8. 108

    yeiii! i really enjoyed this collection, I’ll recommend this post on my blog.

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  9. 109

    Some amazing stuff here, great post. Just started playing around with type design, I’ve recently finished this Sherlock Holmes inspired typography poster…
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/renduh_maw/5055437354/in/set-72157624240380460/
    I’d love to hear what you think.

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  10. 110

    really inspiring post.

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    Check out this guy, he makes portraits out of type. Very complex work. http://www.eugenelvovsky.com/typeis

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  12. 112

    nice collection :) thanks for sharing

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  13. 113

    Hasta ahora conosco el mundo de la tipografía, me encanta tu trabajo y me encanta todo lo que se puede hacer con una simple letra… soy colombiana, estudiante de diseño gráfico, me gusta tu estilo y me gustaría hacerme un tatuaje con mi nombre, como quedaría el nombre de Luisa, en tu estilo???… nice very nice…¡¡¡ bye.

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  14. 114

    Really nice pieces! Got a lot of inspiration here! Thanks!

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    James Random

    May 18th, 2011 6:58 am

    The notion that you can’t design without type is incorrect.

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    VERY GOODDD…..

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  17. 117

    amazing posters, want to see more of these!
    love the french film festival poster and the 3rd poster from Argentina! :)

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  18. 118

    Hi guys…Dare to try something different? Can grab this free new font here if you like.

    http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/layarbahtera/layar-bahtera/

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  19. 119

    Thanks for the display. There were some wonderful ideas here, although several seemed rather cluttered. There are some creative people at work here.

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    Appreciate it for sharing this well put together web site.

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    Smashing collection … i love the snellen chart one

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    Thank you for featuring my posters. I’m honored!

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    Nice collection! Some of them are from Veerle’s competition: “What is graphic design”.

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    Nice list! Also be sure to check the website http://www.aisleone.net/ for many updates about type and posters.

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    Hey Look at the #7th entry.. (Some Black and white stripes) Its repeated twice.. Am I correct ?
    And totally inspiring.. Thanks

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    Thanks for the display. There were some wonderful ideas here, although several seemed rather cluttered. There are some creative people at work here.

    +1
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    Appreciate it for sharing this well put together web site.

    +1

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