Incredible Steve Jobs Portrait in Apple Typefaces
11:29 am, May 7th, 2009, Leander Kahney
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.
Check out the full size picture and revel in Dylan’s amazing attention to detail.
Posted by Leander Kahney in News | Comment on this article
Cool!
traci Dauphin, on May 7th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Dylan Roscover is a no talent hack. The guy knocked me out and stole that from my hard drives!
Plus, he f**s dogs.
Adam, on May 7th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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.
dave, on May 7th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
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.
Dylan Roscover, on May 7th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
wow, that’s fantastic! it must have taken forever. excellent work!!
andrew Mulligan, on May 7th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Funnily, he did a good rendition that included butt-ugly typefaces that Steve Jobs would hate!
Scott, on May 7th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
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.
dave, on May 7th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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!
Brad, on May 8th, 2009 at 12:22 am
really nice, I hope you got a good grade on the assignment.
erik, on May 8th, 2009 at 4:36 am
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!
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