2) Type Based Design

Typed-based design is a format of creating art where the image is created solely using words, with very little to no pictures at all. Typography is one example of this, where a word is taken and it is restructured and redesigned to show the meaning of that word.

This is an example of Image based design where the words are being spelled out and shaped into a picture of a handgun. The words are describing the focal point of this piece by the way they are shaped, with the meaning of the picture being in the words that make up the piece.