My first year typography project

We were given a brief to show a given font's good qualities. I was given Clarendon. I conducted some research and found out that it used to be used for wanted posters. I decided to use this fact to build my poster around, representing Clarendon with a personality to help explain it's qualities. This is my final poster:

Intro to typography

Ever since our new typography brief I have been on a mission to gather information on typography to help me get a better understanding for the subject, in a bid to produce the highest level of work I can.
I wanted to just start off by looking at images on google to show me how it can be effectively used. The amount of scope with sizes, shapes achievable and of course the use of different fonts means that any arrangement can be made possible, amazing pictures have been built up using just text. I also found creatively made text interesting, where other objects have been adapted to create letters. The placement of text can also be very visually interesting, it doesnt have to make a picture but the lining up and new shapes created can leave you studing a piece of typography for ages.
Here is a mixture of some of the images that I found most interesting: