Tapeography – The History Continues

Tapeography is the term given by the famous Turkish designer Ersinhan Ercin to his splendid and the new art form. He has created several designs showcasing some of the best features of his art works. The designer in the recent works came up with his splendid tapeography style of art. The artist is already known for his beautiful remarks on the latest innovative designs he publishes. The recent one highly acknowledged and liked by all is the tapeography.

Tapeography is the typography style of art. Designed with the tapes of old cassettes and records, the artist has designed a numbers of texts and alphabets with the help of these tapes. With tapeography, the popularity of the Turkish designer Ersinhan Ercin has increased gradually. The term tapeography is well acknowledged as typography. Typography is something which is highly studied and researched upon by the graphic designers.

Typography or tapeography follows a long history over a period of times. Typography is the art and practice of printing. Typography helped in the evolution of the printed letters. Some of the printers during the early ages were not merely printers but typographers as well. The first typographer belonged to France and was a French man. With the invention of printing press in the sixteenth and the seventeenth century, the importance of typography was reduced. Typography over a period of time has lost its significance in the past hundred to hundred and fifty years. Nevertheless, with the recent art trend of mixing of typography and tapes, the early printing format is seen widely accepted now.

Tapeography involves the mixing of old tapes used for the designs of writing or designing various alphabets and texts as done in the older days. Since, it is done with the help of cassette tapes the designer named it as tapeography. It is the oldest form of printing used for drafting various letters. Not only texts or alphabets, but one can even view various designs like the skull designs by Ersinhan Ercin, the Turkish designer with the help of the tapeography concepts.

Certain points and certain tips are to be kept in mind in order to showcase some of the best tapeography results. Huge amount of concentration and certain amount of tricks are used by various graphic designers who create spell binding art forms of tapeography. Leading, the most common term used in typography should be ascertained accordingly keeping in mind the weight, size and measure of the text used. This is for the effective legibility of the text printed. Measure refers to the width of the text to be printed. The width is to be decided accordingly and with the right format. The next tip is to take care of the text alignment while dealing with typography. The text alignment deals with the space and the placing of the text for effective reading.

These concepts, aspects and characteristics of tapeography make it one of the most attractive modern art forms. It is inspiring numerous artists and winning fans all over.