Artist Thomas Broome combines typography and home interiors to create spatial artworks with ink on paper. By writing the word of what he's drawing, he builds interiors of - quite literally - "w-a-l-l-s", "d-o-o-r-s" and more...
Typography Meets Interiors by Thomas Broome
The first image is an IKEA interior - can you identify any of the IKEA furnishings he's spelled out in the drawing? Next is a fancy pants hallway, then a bedroom, and lastly a kitchen. See the rest of the series, entitled Modern Mantra, at thomasbroome.se.
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oh wow!
i love type! this is so clever!
-myan
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hahaha! I love it!
The typography classes in my old college used to always do stuff like this- usually it had to be typography portraits of people. :) So fun!
view CozyLittleCave's profile
totally great!
view sarahlr's profile
This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. thanks for sharing.
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Must've been so tedious to make, but what a stunning result -- reminds me of type class too!
view ursamin*r's profile
It's a bit The Matrix isn't it? I dig.
view MODERnestS's profile
I really love these!
view thewifeofanartist's profile
These are great, and I love that they're hand-drawn, or at least appear to be. How fun!
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You can also find his work on the new Peter Bjorn and John CD. Great Stuff!
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I want to write "I love Thomas Broome" over and over again until I form the shape of an ottoman.
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fantastic. makes me want to dig out my dusty old sketchbook.
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Fun!
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Reminds me of Dictionopolis in The Phantom Tollbooth.
view Faithbck's profile
cool.
view STYLeyes's profile
Awesome!
view Mlle Kate's profile
Lol, love it!
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