Fumio Tachibana is a former Tokyo TDC winner who wonderfully crafts typographic beauty from scraps, scraps, scraps. Read his excitement and passion for the typographic form here:
My room is covered with piles of old newspapers. I had not realized how many of them had accumulated; it is now a melee of thousands of newspaper headlines gathered from countries far and near where those newspapers were read and then thrown away. I pick up fragments of text and transform them into new characters. Sometimes these new characters are used to make up the title of a poem. As usual, today I am buried in this dream island of old newspapers and I rummage through them randomly looking for bits I might use. Whenever I see something I like, I just rip it out and paste it along with others to create new characters. There I have another one finished; “Appreciation, Emotion, Rain, Hail.”

Ms. Thompson pleasantly reminds me that I own a pair of scissors and a untended stack of old magazines. Cutup culture is alive over at Michelle’s studio.

Michigan bred, Boston educated, and San Francisco based artist Alexis Anne Mackenzie crafts wonderful collages. See if you can read them. Some of you SF cats might’ve caught her work at Park Life. Her spartan website has a good sampling of work, but her flickr is also a great source to peep.

Some quality print and collage work from Spain by Jorge Chamorro. It is always great to see artistic work infused with superb graphic design. Get out your scissors and rubber cement folks!

Agnes Montgomery is a self-taught artist working in the medium of collage. His site doesn’t have much on it, but he keeps a blog where he also sells prints.