Anamorphic Typography

Anamorphoses is a concept that visully creates 3D typography using 2D methods. One designer I came across that creates these anamorphic texts is Lex Wilson. When explaining what inspired him to look into anamorpic typography he mentioned his influence from the Swiss painter Felice Varini. Unlike a regular painter that uses a blank piece of paper as a canvas, Varini instead uses buildings as a canvas for his installation’s.

 

Wilson quotes,

“When I first saw Varini’s work, I was intrigued by the possibility of representing something 2D across 3 dimensions and the way in which each piece draws your body to a certain point in space where the image is finally revealed. I guess my Typography work is a reverse of that – representing something 3D in 2 dimensions. So, that’s kind of like drawing something 3D in 2D, then representing that in 3D across different surface planes.”

 

http://www.lexwilson.co.uk/