“Fall Leaves” is a project by Brazilian designer Guilherme Falcão produced by The Design Office and printed out of our window in downtown Providence. Written in response to our call for submissions, “Fall Leaves” is 2-feet wide by 24-feet long and took about one hour and fifteen minutes to print from our 4th floor office at 204 Westminster down to just above street level.
The poem is a palindrome of five words that repeats itself ten times — evolving typographically throughout. The piece is timed to autumn. In Falcão’s piece, oversized blocky letters are stand-ins for the leaves, homogenous in color and position at start, colored in midway, and absent at the end. The piece could evolve then loop forever if it were not for the limitations of ink, paper and our own attention.
The poem is typeset in “Shift,” an original typeface by our own Jeremy Mickel. This project marks its first use.
Credits
Guilherme Falcão, concept and design
Jeremy Mickel, typeface
Special thanks to Elaine Dunlap, Derek Schusterbauer and Jori Ketten for onsite help
News & Press
- Apr 20, 2011 - “The Design Office: RI’s Creative Collaborative”
- Nov 06, 2010 - Brief post from Quipsologies