birdsong gregory is big on "green", and while green design is nothing new, I hadn't thought much about green typography until I came across this beautiful work by Anna Garforth, an artist / designer in the UK. Known to some as "The Guerilla Gardener", her interest is integrating her creative practice with urban ecology and sustainability. She says, however, that she has no wish to preserve her work. It lives, it dies, and new growth ensues, specifically with the moss typography. Attaching the moss to the wall using completely biodegradable ingredients, the moss will hopefully colonize and grow. As the moss grows it will begin to spread out, and the words literally disappear into a field of green.
Garforth says that her eye has become "attuned to the plant life that pushes and grows its way through all the cracks in the concrete. There's a lot of wild in the city. Once you have noticed it, it's everywhere, and the city aint such a grey place anymore." Her work surely changes the face of the urban landscape, but has also given the term "live type" a whole new meaning. I love it!
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