Typography

Typography is essentially art through text, lots of different styles of typography have been made for example font style/ type faces all have to be designed by a graphics artist.

There are many kinds of typography art, for example artist have made pictures purely through nothing but white space and black text...

One of the best types of typography art that i know has to be the moving animation text, these usually have an audio track behind the animation talking through the word that are being shown on the screen, as they're appearing which gives a very professional effects and allows the viewer to understand the text a little better.

Here are some examples of Typography art:

And here is a link to a animated piece of typography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mnvvVi4HaI&feature=related 

Also there are poems that use typography art to add emphasis to certain words within the poem... these are called Haiku poems and they usually consist of about 3 lines of text that have been digitally altered to form a more visually interesting picture, for example this is a poem made by myself: