Street Anatomy

Björn Johansson’s Garamond Corpus

Stockholm-based graphic designer/illustrator/typographer extrodinaire, Björn Johansson, has recently unveiled his latest anatomical typography project, Garamond Corpus.  What began as an exploration into the literal nature of typeface anatomy, has turned into a truly cohesive anatomical deconstruction of typography.   What I appreciate about Björn is his attention to detail and the cleanliness of his designs.

Björn explains his inspiration:

My purpose was to examine the individual letter, its shape and typographic qualities. Our letters have many characteristics comparable to the human: there’s big and small letters, thin and fat, there’s an indication of movement in the italic letter and every upper-case letter has a younger sibling, the lower-case.

Within the field of typography we have a definition for the different parts of the letter which is called the anatomy of the typeface and partly reminds of our own anatomy: the letters have arms and legs, eyes and ears, spines et cetera.

View more of Björn’s work on his site, solution.se and his Behance!

Love Your Heart by Jessica Hische

These beautifully rendered anatomical type illustrations were done by the extremely talented Jessica Hische for an article about women’s heart health. With numerous wonderful projects under her belt, her portfolio is sure to be inspiring to anyone who loves type and/or does type design. In her own words:

I think people generally love language, words, phrases, and quotes so to see a great word illustrated appropriately typographically can be beautiful. Illustrated type is a very accessible kind of art. People with no background in art or design can look at a really beautifully drawn word and appreciate it and you don’t have to be on some higher cerebral plane to get the meaning of it.

Be sure to also check out the FAQ section on her site for the full rundown of her work and process.

Skeleton Typogram

Aaron Keuhn is a typographical manipulator who’s latest piece takes on the human skeleton in an easily digestible format.

From Keuhn,

Exo… Endo… Typo! Your life, your organism, your soft tissues but a puddle on the ground, if not for the ancient segmental structure of the Vertebrates. The original hard core is evolving for 400 million years now. Hominids, like you, are using the latest upright technology originating only 4 million years prior. Here it is, updated, and reconstructed in a 2 dimensional static representation of long-stride locomotion for your screen or paper! The component bones, ordinarily constructed with rigid mineralized tissues, have been entirely typo-grammatically replaced with 676 free and fused glyphs, together forming a complete skeletal diagram in Latin.

[spotted by Mr. Nick Hahn]

Six Word Stories Every Day

So, while fiddling around on twitter today I stumbled upon this awesome little project called Six Word Stories Every Day, and was pleasantly surprised to find a handful of them with anatomical illustrations. This is exactly what it sounds like; stories, in 6 words, coupled with beautiful designs to represent each. A bit about the project:

In 2010 designer Anne Ulku, and writer Van Horgen, created Six Word Story Every Day (SWSED), a daily storytelling exploration through language and typography. It was inspired by the work Ernest Hemingway regarded as his greatest: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Some of the pieces are funny, inspiring, sad, and all wonderfully designed! Of course, what would this kind of project be without some collaboration and participation. Head on over to their site, sixwordstoryeveryday.com to check out how you can submit and create a six word story of your own. Bonus points if you can read the above message in the brain.

Typographical Dissections by Andreas Scheiger

We’ve featured the stunning anatomical typography diagrams of Andreas Scheiger before on Street Anatomy.  This time, Andreas has taken the dissections a step further by exploring the anatomy of typography in 3D form.  We’re left with sculptures of half dissected letters standing bold, yet exposed.  He uses powder-coated MDF, polymer clay, chicken bones, corals & shells, thread, wire, acrylics and clear varnish to achieve the effect of bone and muscle.

View more of Andreas’ evolutions of typography on his Behance portfolio.

Browse other forms of anatomical typography in our Typography section!

[spotted by April via Typegoodness]

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