Illustrated Typographic Floor Mosaics Document Designer’s Journey Around the World

Mosaic Art Fauxsaics Digital Art Typography Nick Misani Travel

Like many modern-day designers, New York-based creative Nick Misani is skilled in the art of typography. Unlike most of his contemporaries, however, Misani combines his text-related talents with photography to create realistic digital art. Misani beautifully presents this unique approach to graphic design in Fauxsaics, a thematic series of travel-inspired and digitally-created mosaic art.

Each work of digital art includes the name of a city set against a one-of-a-kind patterned background. Both the tiled text and the backdrop evoke the aesthetic of the place being represented through color palette, typography, and decoration. For example, the classic feel of London materializes as a balanced, black-and-white square, while the glitz and glamour of sunny Los Angeles manifests as both Art Deco-inspired typography and a warm color scheme.

Featuring beautiful tiles obstructed only by digitally-inserted photographs of the artist's feet, the quirky collection of mosaic art is undoubtedly inspired by the recent trend of photographing mesmerizing floors around the world. In addition to its similar composition, Fauxsaics further references this genre by placing an emphasis on locations from around the world. However, this form of photography is not the only muse behind the mosaic art. For a long time, I’ve been obsessed with lettering, interior design, and decorative arts,” Misani tells Highsnobiety. “So mosaics—as an intersection between these three passions—have always been fascinating to me.”

If you'd like to see more of Misani's multifaceted portfolio, be sure to check out his website.

In his typography series, Fauxsaics, designer Nick Misani digitally creates travel-inspired mosaic art.

Mosaic Art Fauxsaics Digital Art Typography Nick Misani Travel

Mosaic Art Fauxsaics Digital Art Typography Nick Misani Travel

Mosaic Art Fauxsaics Digital Art Typography Nick Misani Travel

Mosaic Art Fauxsaics Digital Art Typography Nick Misani Travel

Mosaic Art Fauxsaics Digital Art Typography Nick Misani Travel

Mosaic Art Fauxsaics Digital Art Typography Nick Misani Travel

Mosaic Art Fauxsaics Digital Art Typography Nick Misani Travel

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h/t: [designboom, Design Taxi]

All images via Nick Misani.

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Kelly Richman-Abdou

Kelly Richman-Abdou is a Contributing Writer at My Modern Met. An art historian living in Paris, Kelly was born and raised in San Francisco and holds a BA in Art History from the University of San Francisco and an MA in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University. When she’s not writing, you can find Kelly wandering around Paris, whether she’s leading a tour (as a guide, she has been interviewed by BBC World News America and France 24) or simply taking a stroll with her husband and two tiny daughters.
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