We learn something from each episode of Studio Snack, a collaborative food podcast about design. And this month, exploring seeds and sowing has given us much to discuss about the how and when of a design project.
I’ve used type to illustrate stories from my inexpert gardening that make good analogies for design process. As with seed sowing, timings are crucial. We need to work with the size of the project and its cycle to start it at the right depth. Then we need to give it the time to grow and plant it out when it’s toughened up a bit. Mess with that and – well – here are some examples:
Here, we have (clockwise from top right), Edwardian Script for my enthusiastically early sweet pea sowing that grew too quickly and went ‘leggy’; Perpetua for an unexpected seed sowing success – hard to replicate, those, because I’ve no idea what I did right; a wayward squash in Brush Script that grew by accident in a pot of chillis because of my unready compost; and a Baskerville bendy bean, left for too long before planting out.
Listen to the episode here.
