Plant Typography

Fall Photo and Type

For this six week experimentation project I wanted to work with materials that I have not used before and also work with photography to develop my skills and visually record the process. This project was introduced at a particularly colorful time of year Autumn; and this inspired me to create six completely unique typefaces using natural materials found outside. I collected a large variation in size; color and textured leaves, berries, flowers, small branches and twigs, acorns, nuts and structured each set of letters free hand. I chose to create each letter freehand because I felt this would be less controlled than photographing the materials and photoshopping the letters into shapes. For this project I spent a lot of time outside in fields, parks, forests and paid attention to the patterns and movement in nature and attempted to express that. I also captured the natural color contrast in nature so I could use these in my Journal.

GoldLeaf Crisp Experiment One

I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.

The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.

The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes, new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind, and the old things go, not one lasts. - carl Sandburg

Pine Reef Experiment Two

Approach of Winter

The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go or driven like hail stream bitterly out to one side and fall where the salvias, hard carmine-like no leaf that ever was-edge the bare garden.

- William Carlos Williams

Berrie Red Experiment Three

Clouded with snow

The cold winds blow, And shrill on leafless bough

The robin with its burning breast

Alone sings now.

The rayless sun, Day’s journey done,

Sheds its last ebbing light

On fields in leagues of beauty spread

Unearthly white.

Thick draws the dark, And spark by spark,

The frost-fires kindle, and soon

Over that sea of frozen foam

Floats the white moon.

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Winter

Walter de la Mare

Mango Curl Cut Experiment Four

AUTUMN WOODS

by James S. Tippett

I like the woods

In autumn When dry leaves hide the ground, When the trees are bare And the wind sweeps by With a lonesome rushing sound. I can rustle the leaves In autumn And I can make a bed In the thick dry leaves That have fallen From the bare trees Overhead.