Incredible Steve Jobs Portrait in Apple Typefaces

By Leander Kahney (11:29 am, May 07 2009)

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Designer Dylan Roscover has created a fabulous portrait of Steve Jobs using the words of Apple’s seminal “Think Different” campaign.

At first, Dylan’s portrait looks like a pointillist painting. But on closer inspection, you see that Jobs is rendered in the words of “the crazy ones” TV ad, using a variety of Apple-related fonts — Motter Tektura, Apple Garamond, Myriad, Univers, Gill Sans, and Volkswagen AG Rounded, to be exact.

Dylan is a self-described ‘design nerd’ who lives in Aloma, Florida.

Says Dylan: “This is a typeface-driven design based on the “Here’s to the crazy ones” ad campaign from Apple in the 90s, using… fonts present in Apple branding and products.”

Hit the jump for a detail pic and link to the fullsize picture.

Via Macgasm.

Check out the full size picture and revel in Dylan’s amazing attention to detail.

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traci Dauphin
Cool!
http://protei.net Adam
Dylan Roscover is a no talent hack. The guy knocked me out and stole that from my hard drives!
Plus, he f**s dogs.
dave
This is clearly copyright infringement. Just rearranging the words into a cute pattern doesn’t make it art.
Obviously, this so-called artist must be killed for transgressing the law.
And I should get a pony for reporting him.
http://gorosco.com Dylan Roscover
Hey Dave,
You make an interesting point, however I did it in school under fair use:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
This was made for a nonprofit and educational purpose (literally, I did it for a class assignment), and am not out to profit from prints or anything of that nature.
andrew Mulligan
wow, that’s fantastic! it must have taken forever. excellent work!!
Scott
Funnily, he did a good rendition that included butt-ugly typefaces that Steve Jobs would hate!
dave
Dylan,
Clearly, you are not a lawyer and therefore, incapable of interpreting the law.
Just doing it in a school, as a class assignment MIGHT be considered fair use, until you began widespread distribution of the image for personal gain, namely to draw attention to yourself.
And while I’m sure Adam deserved being mugged, stealing his work and submitting it as your own is also wrong.
Finally, I am very disappointed to learn that you f*** dogs.
Brad
Very cool, but clearly you have too much time on your hands Dylan.. and Dave, who the h*ll cares if it’s copyright infringement? I think YOU f*** dogs!
erik
really nice, I hope you got a good grade on the assignment.
Sandy
The world is full of jealous people Dylan. I’d like to see some of these with negative attitudes try doing it themselves. Hat’s off to you! and piss on the rest of you!