Celebrating Earth Day Through Typography

AuthorLarissa April 20th, 2010 Comments View Comments
In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, I experimented with nature inspired typography. Using Adobe Photoshop, I formed letters of the alphabet using elements of nature.
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The complete alphabet

In this experiment, I was not necessarily trying to create a visual metaphor for each letter such as “A is for Apple” but seeking to create a balance of texture and color. I would also give huge props to Hand Made Font for inspiring this creative challenge.

Artist’s Block

The biggest challenge of this exercise was to think of 26 different expressions of nature. By the time I had 7 or 8 letters remaining, it started becoming rather difficult to think of new ideas. When you have a bad case of “artist’s block”, sometimes it’s best to just keep going because you never know when inspiration will spark.

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P + R are 2 of my favorites

P + R are 2 of my favorites

The letter “P” was possibly the most challenging trying to find the right lizard parts to make the Iguana bend.  This was one of the first letters I tackled. (Just for the record, I’m pretty sure that’s not even physically possible for iguanas to hang like that.)

I love geodes and letter “R” turned out quite nicely I think. It was one of the latter letters I completed.

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S + U included a lot of attention to detail.

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D + G show small and large scale elements

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N + W were fun ways to play with ice and fire

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Click the image below to view the letters in more detail.

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  • http://www.websitedesignsanjose.com Daniel Patterson

    Awesome PS work!

  • http://sitemind.com Stephen Klein

    Incredible job. The detail in these are amazing!

  • Tracy

    Amazing! Wish I could print it on a T-Shirt!

    “We do not inherent the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” Ancient Indian Proverb

  • http://www.danielmall.com/ Dan Mall

    These are fantastic! I can’t stop licking the screen.

  • http://agencynet.com Larissa

    Thanks everyone! Happy Earth Day on Thursday!!!

  • http://faelanblair.com Faelan

    Shopped.

  • http://faelanblair.com Faelan

    jk. Nice work Larissa. Points for using a sloth….

  • http://www.caramelink.com Carine

    Beautiful Work Larissa. My favs are i,p,t.

    I think it would have been awesome if you could link each letter with a symbol like what you did with “R” and “Rock”. Then this could be used to teach kids the alphabets!

    Just a though, they are great as they are :)

  • http://www.elmostro.com Alexis

    Wow. This is just amazing. How superb is your work, how detailed. Is definitely artistic 100%. My english is not enough to describe how amazing is your work. Congratulations. Where I can download a high resolution image so I can print it in a T-Shirt?

  • http://www.handmadefont.com Vladimir

    Awesome.

  • http://thomasland.org Gary Thomas

    Absolutely epic type case. It should be in high demand as I’ve never seen anything that comes close to the care and detail. Cheers!

  • http://www.cholet.com.br Denise Roque

    I am mad for fashion. I loved this smile letter

  • http://www.decisions.com ashley

    Is there any way you could walk through the steps involved in creating one of the letters. I think this would be very beneficial. This is really amazing work that you created.

  • http://mobilethemesworld.net/ TheShadow

    Fantastic typography content.like those design and style.

  • Balasubramaniam

    Fantastic work! Would love to get a font file with these :-)

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