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MotherWIP—
A Floral Typeface
A typeface inspired by gentle
growth and the evening primrose.
Type design, picking flowers, wading in ponds for pics
Context—
This typeface sprouted from a prompt by Austin Design Week.
We (a typographic environments class) were each given the opportunity to design a poster with our response to this year’s theme—make space. I thought about making space for each other to grow and learn. I then started looking at the evening primrose, which grows in Texas (from cracks in the concrete, on the sides of roads, spilling out near the edges of ponds). It’s a hearty, willful flower. It makes its own space.
Observing the flower inspired full, rounded shapes, tapering inward with occasional strokes of thin leaves, and counters like nearly-opened buds.
Featuring the final poster (caught in the wild).
final poster (caught in the wild).