Ornate Roman Pugio Uncovered In 2019 Near Haltern Am See In What Is Now Germany. 1st-2nd Century AD

Ornate Roman pugio uncovered in 2019 near Haltern am See in what is now Germany. 1st-2nd century AD

Great Sphinx, Giza, Egypt, 2558-2532 BC VS Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, Long Island Duckling | Learning from Las Vegas, 1972

Typography Tuesday

PLANTS & FLOWERS

This week we bring you a few experimental fonts made with flowers and plants from The Making of Artistic Typefaces by 50 international designers published in 2016 by SendPoints Publishing in Hong Kong. Shown here:

Blossom Type: handcrafted with natural flowers with Photoshp for color correction by designers Nikita Shchykin and Alice Mourou of Oddity Studio based in Hong Kong.

Wanto 3 Aroma Living: letterform overlaid with a flower arrangement from Victor Design Corp.

Garden, Flowers, and Ice: as the name implies, this font, designed by Manuel Persa of Voluminica based in Asturias, Spain, is made using wild flowers placed in letter-shaped silicone molds, filled with water and frozen, and then removed from the mold.

Good Vibes: typographical wooden frame filled with living moss, designed by Camilo Rojas of CR-eate based in Miami.

Good Enough: original clay pottery with small plants as an illustration in the Dutch Volkskrat Magazine from the design studio Autobahn based n Haarlem and Rotterdam.

View more designs from The Making of Artistic Typefaces.

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bamboo, fuchsia buds, blades of grass and foxgloves in nils-udo: art in nature (2002)

#MetalMonday:

Lamp in the form of a bird, 12th c.

Persian, Iran, Khorasan province, Seljuk-Atabeg period

Quaternary alloy, cast & incised, with turquoise inlay

13.34 x 19.05 x 19.05 cm (5 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)

On display at Harvard Art Museums