Calligram In-Depth Analysis

Oscar Wilson and Sarah King are good examples of Calligram artists, they use words to create images. We mainly focused on Oscar Wilsons who started working in London in 1996 till now, he is a contemporary artist. Wilson specializes in image creation, illustrated and hand crafted typography.  He uses simple colors for the background so that the focus remains on the bright and bold text in the images.

His work is mainly used in advertisement, publishing, fashion, film and TV. His work can be connected to many high profiled brands such as Nike, Puma, Visit London, Supreme etc.             Many of his piece and details of his work can be viewed on his website www.studiooscar.com. A lot of his work represent London Life, not only aiming at tourist but also people around London visiting sites.
These are my Calligram designs which I did handmade and also digital. I selected the pieces above by Wilson because they stood out to me, but overall his technique stood out how he creates text in a shape of an object and also how he combines illustration then adds the Caligram technique such as the woman with the afro. This technique has inspired me to experiment with a final outcome using this technique and create a typography saying/expression in Caligram form, but instead of my text being in the form of an object, person, building etc I would combine all the words and connect them or layer them outline in black fine liner to make individual text stand out. His Caligram technique may not work well if I chose a long say/expression because the worlds can get lost in the image and be hard to read for example the Gorilla piece he did for London some words are small and squashed hard to read.