Colossal: I just stumbled onto the Instagram account of Tolga Girgin, a Turkish graphic designer and electrical engineer who experiments with calligraphy. His latest pieces involve a number of 3D lettering pieces that use shadow and perspective to make it appear like the letterforms are lifting off the page. Very cool.
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For the amount of times that I have attempted to craft lettering passable as calligraphy and failed, I wouldn’t refer to it as a simple art. Tolga Girgin went above and beyond conventional forms of calligraphy, disregarding the Victorian/Fantasy style work that is so often seen in the beginning of old books, postcards, or Brothers Grimm tales. The colors in each letter are slightly different from each other and remain sharp and unblended, which physically seem to bring the letters right off the page to highlight the distance of the work. He also wonderfully utilizes a constantly positioned light source to bring out depth in shadows, but employs different angles of light to bring out varying styles that peel, stand up, or jump off the page. Many of the lettering comes out as boxes or ribbons, and it is amazing to see that Tolga has manipulated the constant disfiguration of the letters in a manner that is both readable and stylistic.
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