Josh Mirman is a graphic designer for the company Zen Monkey Studios. He specializes in T-shirt design using typo graphs to do so. His style isn’t uncommon but he does it very well. A typo graph is an image created out of different words of different colour and size. He starts with a pencil sketch of the image he wants to create. He then imports this into Photoshop and uses this outline to place the words and create the shape needed and uses the tools add colour to the words giving the final outcome. The words rarely go in straight lines, they rather curve and manipulate around other smaller words to create the shapes needed. The background colour is also very important due to them being designs on t-shirts. The background has to contrast the majority of the foreground to ensure the foreground typo graph stands out. He uses words to do with the subject he is drawing. For example for Mario he uses words such as super, gorilla and shells as they are all things to do with the Super Mario games. I would have to use words to do with fruit if I were to do this. The words are all chosen before and put in place roughly, they are then manipulated to fit into the shapes they need to be. This leaves some letters really big with others really small. To get around this I would use different size words instead of letter, depending how it looked. Below is the process I took to recreate his style with my own images.