Before you put any guides or ink down on the page, you’ll want to to determine what kind of calligram you’ll be making. For demonstration purposes, let’s pretend you’re doing a two ring calligram and both of those rings are the same size: When you draw your guides, you can use...
There are many different types of text portrait effects you can create with Photoshop. We've already shown you how to use displacement maps with very long text to make a calligram. Today, you'll learn how to make another type of text portrait effect that will look great with a quote or ...
I hope that this tutorial has helped introduce you to the process of creating custom letterforms with Illustrator. Using these basic techniques you can take everything a step further and create detailed custom typography or even work on your own typeface. Below is the end result of this tutoria...
Imagism wasa sub-genre of Modernism concerned with creating clear imagery with sharp language. The essential idea was to re-create the physical experience of an object through words. As with all of Modernism, Imagism implicitly rejected Victorian poetry, which tended toward narrative. What was the...
A shape poem, also called a concrete poem or a calligram, describes an object and is written in the shape of that object. You can create shape poems of all shapes and sizes, using objects or subjects that inspire you. To write a shape poem, you will need to brainstorm ideas, create ...