Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures)

Paint it Black (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 11:57:34 -0700

A contemporary black letter type treatment of the Rolling Stones' track, realised using an ink roller.

Nixon 02: Solutions Are Not The Answer (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:25:18 -0700

I began researching former US President Richard Nixon and wanted to interpret some of his more well known soundbites, many of which felt loaded with semiotics.

Nixon 01: I Brought Myself Down (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:19:30 -0700

I began researching former US President Richard Nixon and wanted to interpret some of his more well known soundbites, many of which felt loaded with semiotics.

Alphabet Cities 002 - New York (Monochrome) (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:01:00 -0800

*** Hurricane Sandy Relief Update *** I'll be donating all proceeds form the sale of this print to the Red Cross in aid of the Hurricane Sandy relief fund. * * * * My two favourite cities together again, available in multiple sizes. Originally issued in 2007 as an edition of 100 I have decided to reissue them as generally available prints. Now also available in black and white versions.

Alphabet Cities 002 - New York (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:59:25 -0800

My two favourite cities together again, available in multiple sizes. Originally issued in 2007 as an edition of 100 I have decided to reissue them as generally available prints.

Alphabet Cities 001 - London (Monochrome) (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:58:08 -0800

My two favourite cities together again, available in multiple sizes. Originally issued in 2007 as an edition of 100 I have decided to reissue them as generally available prints. Now also available in black and white versions.

Alphabet Cities 001 - London (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:56:24 -0800

My two favourite cities together again, available in multiple sizes. Originally issued in 2007 as an edition of 100 I have decided to reissue them as generally available prints.

Wish You Were Here (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:23:51 -0800

A long-since destroyed papercut illustration created in 2007. In memory of my Grandma and Grandfather, I'll be donating all proceeds past and future from the sale of this print to Cancer Research.

Bad Typography is Everywhere / Good Typography is Invisible (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:43:34 -0800

An amended version (minus the body copy) of the original poster I created in 2008 to promote a short series of workshops conducted at Buckinghamshire Chilterns' University in the United Kingdom. The piece was created using 3" high, wooden letters painted white and affixed to a white wall.

Robots Will Regret Humans (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:58:54 -0700

Ink and Water Don't Mix (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:46:35 -0700

Created in 2008 by tracing parts of Didot with a fountain pen and dripping water onto it.

Collapsed in Love (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:47:50 -0700

As a part of my Love Studies series, this piece, created in 2011 in collaboration with photographer William George Wadman, involved capturing images of falling chiffon fabric until letters began to appear. The final piece was assembled digitally.

The USA Mistake (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:40:26 -0700

This microscopic image was created with Frank Conrad as part of the exploratory phase of the Creative Review Annual cover that we created in 2010.

Don't Let Go (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:13:58 -0700

This piece was created in 2011 using, very simply, a photocopier. That said, I did give myself several intense Chinese burns in the process...

You Blow Me Away (For Sale)

Craig Ward / Words are Pictures (WordsarePictures) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:12:45 -0700

This image, one of my personal favourites, was created in London in 2009 as a collaboration and legibility experiment with the kinetic still-life photographer Jason Tozer. The typography - set simply in Helvetica - was screen printed onto twenty sheets of glass and a variety of objects were fired through them. A sound reactive flash captured the glass at various stages of destruction and of the 20 images captured, this proved to be our favourite and the best interpretation of the phrase. You can view the making of this project at http://wordsarepictures.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/the-making-of-you-blow-me-away/