This project was my take on the famous “36 Days of Type” challenge held annually, which prompts designers of all walks to create their version of the letters A-Z and the numbers 0-9, one a day for 36 days. This was my first time participating! In this round I only did the letters, as each one took me a bit of time to flesh out. Sometimes they took more than a day of tinkering, but all in all I’m very happy with how each letter turned out!

My goal in participating was first and foremost to pull myself out of a creative rut that I’d been going through for the previous ~4 months or so. I moved to NYC at the beginning of the year and adjusting to a whole new lifestyle was much more intensive than I’d imagined it would be, albeit very exciting and fulfilling! I also wanted to practice my workflows with natural scenes and the ways I could communicate type in landscape design. Some are more complicated than others and some are more natural than others, but generally they all hold true to the idea of “natural surrealism” as I like to call it.