Typography IS design!

This collection of designs is from the same website as I used for my previous post (www.smashingmagazine.com). This site is extremely interesting and shows so many graphics that incorporate different type of font use.

This article/display shows how entire designs/advertisements can be composed entirely of type with little or no use of graphics or pictures:

Breathtaking Typographic Posters
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/25/breathtaking-typographic-posters/

It appears to be very true; creating designs have so much to do with font types, size and amount of text throughout the [poster] and colors. Most of the example seen on this link feature information through awesome looking texts with only a background color and maybe some small designs and textures around the sides. There is not too much use of photography or graphics in any of these examples (with exceptions of course). Fonts are being turned into miniature graphics of there own, which means additional graphics are required less and less is type will take up the majority of a design.

Here are some interesting examples: