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Archive for November, 2010

A typographical self portrait

I’ve been wanting to work on a typography piece for a while, so a self-portrait comprised exclusively of type felt like it would be both challenging and fun. This is what I came up with. The shading on the skin tone was accomplished by manually adjusting the tone of each individual character to get the sense of dimensionality. The quote that is repeated is a line from one of my favorite songs.

Typographical Self Portrait