39 Astonishing Examples of 3D Typography
The surge of interest in Typography has lead to a huge soar in popularity of different types of Typography based design artwork, with 3D Type being one of the most popular variations. This post features 39 unique and inspiring pieces of 3D Typography.
Beautiful 3D Typography
Only For Champions
This is first in the list as it’s my favorite because of the unique theme; combining eggs, feathers and typography. Now whose for some breakfast?!
Lost In Space
Created as the main lead for this Designers portfolio, it uses a rich space theme to create a funky monochromatic effect.
Milky White
A beautiful milk effect which you can also accomplish yourself using this tutorial by Abduzeedo.
Wash Your Hands
A superb example of the use of programs such as Cinema 4D, Photoshop and Stock Photography, the detail in the text is beautiful.
Set The World On Fire
A clean, interesting concept and composition make this a wonderful metaphoric piece of art.
Frozen
Created with 3D Studio Max and Photoshop by GoMedia’s talented Jeff Finley for the Depthcore Empire Pack.
Read All About It
Part of a series designed with the brief ‘Type Factory’ in mind – a fictional museum of typography which required an identity design.
Earth Day
An amazing design with superb attention to decorative detail, its comprised of Type created in Illustrator, stock images and custom Photoshop brushes.
Twenty Twelve
An illustration created for the cover of the book: 2012, using a combination of new techniques employed by the artist and daring camera angles.
Solar Juice
A colourful, stunning Text Art piece with a retro atmosphere. The details in the Typography make it a pleasure to look at.
I Love Typography
A combination of Cinema 4D and Photoshop with an interesting use of textures on both the letters and background.
Science Typo
A piece created for Intrinsic Nature with each letter having it’s own meaning:
Sea, Cloning, Intrinsic, Elements, Nature, Cosmos and Electricity.
Creative Tempest
A Poster design for Creative Tempest which is mind blowing in it’s depth, use of drips and crazy reflections.
Let’s Go Get Lost
Created as a personal 3D type experiment in Cinema 4D by the talented designer Craig Ward who also has some amazing Typographic portfolio pieces.
Rebuild
By GoMedia’s Jeff Finley for a poster collaboration with the rest of the Go Media crew, even though it wasn’t used, it’s still a superb typographic piece.
3D Landscape
Created using Photoshop and Cinema 4D, this has a very playful quality with the varied and rather odd objects positioned throughout the text.
Envy Wallpaper
Inspired from the verse: “Oh, how I envy the butterfly! The beginning of its life: simple; a mere egg of motivation incased in a protective shell…”
Type Foundation
Drawing inspiration from the quote: “Typography is the foundation of all true design”. This was created in Cinema 4D taking 5 hours to render with several days spent tweaking in Photoshop.
Art Line
A combination of Illustrator and Photoshop were used to create this. I love the concept that Art is an evolving media, always changing, moving in different directions.
Global Day Poster
Created in honor of this years Global day of action on July 25 using Cinema 4D and Photoshop. It’s difficult not to love the powerful typeface used to anchor the image.
Type Growth
A beautiful concept and composition which is minimalist yet has enough depth and interest to draw you in and focus on the concept.
Calibre
A spiky shattered glass effect created using the ever popular Cinema 4D with the lighting and colours added in Photoshop.
Type Tips
An illustration produced for Computer Arts, which follows Nik Ainley’s familiar ‘pimp’ style and includes some nice typographical elements, like the keyboard, typewriter and stencils.
Long Life & Prosper
We can take it the author is a Star Trek fan with this superb homage to the vulcan catchphrase.
Graffiti
Street art or Graffiti can be a source of raw inspiration. This piece is by the author UrbanCalligraphism and i think that perfectly sums up this piece.
Inspire
Created for a calender design using Cinema 4D with the texture and editing done in Photoshop and the curved lines then drawn in Illustrator.
Delicious Detroit
A 3D Typographic piece which pops with colour. It was created using Illustrator CS3 with the light, coloring and texturing done in Photoshop.
Colourful Wedding
A fresh approach to wedding invitation design with this wonderful and delicious design for the author’s boss and fiancee.
Bold Love
Powerful, bold and juicy, the vinyl type effect is gorgeous and sits beautifully against the stark black background.
Rock The Vote
Inspired by Shepard Fairey’s limited edition poster and Scott Hansen’s Obama poster, this was created in honor of Rock The Vote for the presidential election.
Experimental Zoom
An experiment by the author in 3D Type, this focuses on one small part of the overall word for a dramatic effect.
Contrast
Four hours spent within Cinema 4D and Photoshop along with some custom brushes and lens blur were used to create this slick 3D image.
Ability
Created in Photoshop and 3D Max by lofting a spline, it has amazing texture, volume and perspective.
On Us
A Christmassy advertising image created for Virgin, the left hand side is blank for their own text to be placed in. The text was done in Cinema 4D and the rest in PS and Illustrator.
Waste Not Want Not
Produced as a companion to “Stay Green. Go Red.” It is visually and metaphorically the opposite of that piece… dark, dirty and polluted.
Number Eight
Produced in honor of International Women’s Day in Russia on March 8, it is a visualisation for a postcard using 3D Max, Photoshop and taking approximity 3 days.
Panna
Panna is a move used in street soccer to get passed someone by putting it through their legs, aka a nutmeg. Those little yellow things are actually shoes.
Sweet Hello
A sweet and utterly yummy type treatment that leaves the viewer wanting to dive straight into the type.
51 Comments
I liked Contrast and Experimental Zoom
Thanks for sharing!
Very inspiring!
Flag as inappropriateartificial art… not my favorite. but absolutely love the hills typography.
Flag as inappropriateartificial? you mean like what all art is?
Flag as inappropriateeven 3d !
Flag as inappropriateİ liked those
These are absolutely awesome!! thanks!! :)
Flag as inappropriategreat compilation!!!
http://taylanezer.deviantart.com/art/i-pop-poster-v1-165490074
take a look at this one, u may like it…
Flag as inappropriateits very nice. Great post33
Flag as inappropriateits very nice. Great post20
Flag as inappropriateits very nice. Great post14
Flag as inappropriateExcellent post. Thanks
Flag as inappropriateawesome… :)
Flag as inappropriateI love these tuts, bookmarked them for future use!
Flag as inappropriateAstonishing. Some Genius whoever he/she is!
Flag as inappropriateBeautifull works, congratulations for the artists !
Flag as inappropriateSome of these are mind-blowing Grace. Thank you! It’s also great to see some of the artists here in the commentary – great work!
Flag as inappropriateOH MY GOD!!!!!!! AWESOME TYPOGRAPHY!!!!!!!!!!
Flag as inappropriateAwesome collection!! I wish I could make things like that. I guess I’ll just have to stick to 2D design ;)
Flag as inappropriateWow Awesome!!! Thank You
Flag as inappropriateHi Grace, I love your works and concept, but I tried to see if there is a way i can contact U, I want to be able to create those stuff maybe you have a step-by-step guide to doing that, can i have it?
Flag as inappropriateGreat collection… what about this one: http://aevion.xtreemhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/aevion-3d-nature-shortened1.jpg
Let me know what you think
Flag as inappropriateThanks for including my piece (global day of action) in this great collection!
Flag as inappropriateGreat examples, thanks. I am currently 3D technologies, so hope that this collection and new ideas will make a huge contribution to my studying process.
Flag as inappropriateThis is an awesome collection. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
Karl
Flag as inappropriateContrast is amazing! I love it!
Flag as inappropriateNice Inspiration, Thanks. I really love Shinybinary Type Tips
Flag as inappropriateHey guys, thanks for the great feedback! It was super fun to research and definitely made me want to spend some time in Cinema 4D!
@Jad Thanks for sharing your 3D Type, it looks fab :-)
Flag as inappropriateHot !
Flag as inappropriateGood works.
Flag as inappropriateWOW! These are awesome. I have tried 3D type before but nothing like those cool designs.
Here is my most recent 3D type:
Flag as inappropriatehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jad-graphics/3954762191/
Nice showcase! Really inspirational.
Flag as inappropriateI have definetely learnt something from this. Great research Grace :)
Flag as inappropriatethis is beautiful
Flag as inappropriatethats awesome!! i wish i could do such typographic designs :(
Flag as inappropriateAwesome! These are amazing
Flag as inappropriateA great inspiration for 3D typography . Thanks for post and also for the linking to our post – 55 Killer 3D Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials
Flag as inappropriateAwesome round-up Grace! Awe Inspiring!
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