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Four Letter Words – Typography illustrations

Typography, Illustration, Sketch, Lettering

For a few months now I have been filling up an A6 moleskin sketchpad I won from Creative Review with a self set brief – Illustrate four letter words using typography.

The brief was a rather simple one and I tried not to think too long and hard over the words I chose. Some took 30mins to sketch and some I tweaked for days. The plan is to fill the sketch pad and vectorise my favourites. This project isn’t one that I see as being finished here. It’s an on-going passion of mine that you can be certain to see lots more of.

I have a limited run (15 of each) produced. All signed and numbered. They are printed on 200gsm A3 paper. Available for £25 per print. If you are interested in purchasing one send me a message on my contact page.

P.S Any Four Letter Words (avoiding the obvious naughties) are more than welcome!

Four Letter Word - Love
Four Letter Word - Sulk
Four Letter Word - Loop
Four Letter Word - Fall
Four Letter Word - Drip
Four Letter Word - Over
Four Letter Word - Tash
  • Anonymous

    Great stuff. I really love the concept.

    For word ideas check this out for inspiration: http://www.scrabble.org.au/words/fours.htm

  • Chrisclaredesign

    Nice work Michael Dowell!

  • http://twitter.com/_michaelt Michael Thomason

    I’d like to see he word ‘cake’. I love the loop.

  • danette r. harms

    What could you do with SONG & WHIM? :-) .

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for all the suggestions. Lots to keep me going, I have a couple of sketches to illustrate so check back soon

  • Atuffin

    I love this idea! I’ll go for: book, look, read, word, fold and kiss!

  • http://www.leretico.com TJ

    zyme or zest or zoic

    Lets do a Zed word!

  • Anne-Marie

    How about play?

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for all the suggestions guys. Just finished my latest one. Will post it up when I’ve taken some snaps.