Amazing portraits created using a typewriter by Álvaro Franca

Brazilian graphic designer Álvaro Franca has created a series titled “Typewritten Portraits” featuring his five favorite authors in Literature who worked on typewriters. The pieces, as shown below, are meticulously drawn or typed up with letters using a vintage typewriter, depicting amazingly detailed facial expressions.  Enjoy these extraordinary artwork!

Franca developed the technique for imaging grayscale with typewriter during his 1-year stint in the Cambridge School of Art. Then he created the series “Typewritten Portraits” and considered it as a “project of experimental art.” 

The series is an ongoing project, with more portraits to come. The first five portraits are: J.D. Salinger, Charles H. Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Jose Saramago, and Clarice Lispector.

All images courtesy of Álvaro Franca and Fernando Dias (photographer), and are published with permission.

To see more of Franca’s work, please visit his:  Website  |  Behance  |  Facebook