Does anybody know if there is a name for a picture of a face made from the actual letters of a name?
This picture from the band T'Pau's album cover is a good example what I'm looking for – Heart and Soul album cover
I saw a set of them at an art gallery years ago that used different people's first names, but I haven't been able to find anything since and no look with google.
Best Answer
This image appears to be an autologlyph as illustrated at segerman.org.
This form of expression is discussed in out sister site, Graphic Design, here.
The technique has also been called visual onomatopoeia as illustrated in Scientific American
Lauren Ipsum has suggested a neologism, fontomatopoeia.