What does this mean?

hhp

Here are some examples.

Check out "Bembo's Zoo" - a book and a site:
http://www.bemboszoo.com/

Also see traditional Arabic calligraphy, which sometimes uses long -and legible- phrases (often from the Qur'aan) to form pictures of various things (including animals). The book "Arabic Script" by Gabriel Mandel Khan has great examples.

Lastly, our Chris Lozos has a penchant for making pictures (such as his own face) out of letters.

hhp

Also of note are designs with repeating letters (usually in a circular arrangement) to form patterns, arguably the most famous being Licko's Hypnopaedia:
http://emigre.com/EF.php?fid=98

And then there's a site that dynamically renders snowflakes (although with 8 sides instead of 6) out of phrases that the user types in:
http://www.typeflake.com/

hhp

Thanks for the links, they were very helpful. If you or anyone thinks of something else, feel free to post it on here.

A workshop
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~segalini/0506/t1-ws6.gif

Ni9e
http://www.ni9e.com/typo_illus.php

Jason E. Lewis’s WordNozzle
http://www.aalab.net/projects/ActiveText

Guillaume Apollinaire
http://www.ubu.com/historical/app/app.html

Zefrank A to G
http://www.zefrank.com/alphabet.html

Chronotext by Ariel Malka
http://www.chronotext.org

Typedrawing, Storyabout
http://www.storyabout.net/typedrawing

are you a student? i did them in one of my first few typographic lessons. have you seen Dezcoms image. that is one of them.
http://typophile.com/user/3135
and ohyeah, these are good too. check them out
http://www.lycettebros.com/notmytype/nmt02.htm

wow Alessandro, Ariel Malka is mind-blowing!

Alessandro, great refs!
Malka reminds of two other things:
1) Maeda's stuff.
2) The NoFont guy (I forget his name - he is/was on Typophile) who -among other things- rendered cityscapes out of letters.

hhp

Uh? I can't see any connection between Malka and Maeda.

Maeda has also done "landscapes" made of letters.

hhp

BTW, a very notable -if maybe somewhat peripheral- example is the use of
letterforms to draw the simplest possible thing: a line. The two white lines
on Iran's flag are made of repeating text which says "allaahou akbar",
"god is great": http://flagspot.net/images/i/ir.gif _
Is that classy or what.

hhp

At least I draw a friend by palatino:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26568951/

And made some animation by palatino also:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26776556/

I also respect this russian artist among some modern type artists:
http://russoturisto.deviantart.com/gallery/

Ahmad Shawkash

I had forgotten about your cute animation! Very nice to see it again.

hhp

Thank you! I am honored you still remember it mr.Hrant.

Ahmad Shawkash