Zirkle+-+Typography+Research

Stefan Sagemeister is a typography artists that was born in 1964 and is still alive making typography today. He is mostly known for his provocative, rule-breaking, abnormal style of design. He has been known to incorporate enviroment and human figures into his typography work, which most of his works show off. I liked that this typographer incorporated backgrounds into his work and actually made his own found typography such as with the tree one above, where he wrapped toilet paper around a few trees. I also liked that the typefaces have a flow to them and move your eye along the page as you are reading. I connect with his work because not only have I tried to do things like this before, but also it has a hidden message, which is something I have always loved to do. In most of his works, the image often relates to the text incorporated into the image, and sends a message for the viewer, which I have been doing in my artwork for a long time now.
 * Stefan Sagmeister**

Christopher Wool is another typographer that was born and 1955 and still lives and produces art today. Christopher is best known for his paintings of large, black, stenciled letters on canvas. Although he has done much more than that, as he was a painter before a typographer, this is some of his most famous work. What I liked about this typographer so much was the simplicity of the art but the complexity of the concept. Often, people had to read the text aloud to decipher what it was saying, and many of these stenciled works have very abstract and unique messages that are hard to understand and provoke your thoughts, something I love. I connect with this work a lot because it has sort of a bold style that I've always been attracted to and it seems as though this artist is more concerned with sharing his thoughts through art rather than seeing what people think. This is something I can relate to a great amount because every time I do art I do it at first only for me, and if I like it sure I'll put it out there, regardless of how people feel about it.
 * Christopher Wool**

Alex Trochut was born in Barcelona in 1981, and is still alive and active in the typography world today. He is mostly known for his modern approach and his strange twist on minimalism. He has famous works throughout society, collaborating and working with big companies such as Nike, Puma, Adidas, MTV, New York Times, and more. What I like about his art a lot, is the cleverness of the designs and he incorporates the words in his work and makes them look. For example, in the Puma ad he did he uses the shoelaces to make a typeface, which I found super cool and creative. I connect with his art a great deal, because I love the concept of it all, and the cleverness. I have done this myself before by taking a Nike Sweatshirt and make the swoosh look like it was melting, which is sort of similar. I plan to do things like Alex in the future, and get my skills into the industry (specifically clothing or advertisement) like he has.
 * Alex Trochut**

https://www.aiga.org/medalist-stefan-sagmeister/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wool https://www.skillshare.com/profile/Alex-Trochut/1271488