The purpose of this project was to explore how typography naturally and spontaneously appears in our environment. Talking trash started with a stroll around the neighborhood taking pictures of shapes and objects and slowly transitioned to bits and pieces of overlooked scrap, each telling a story about how it may have come to be a forgotten piece of it's former self.
In my quest to understand the only thing I knew to do was start looking for letter form and so I began in the most obvious place, actual letters, first in my apartment then down the street, at the park, around a garbage dump and just walked until I had a couple of A’s through Z’s filling the screen with their little tumbnails. The first actual stroke of genius (not actual genius), but the first solid idea came when I saw a ripped plastic bag in the shape of an ‘e’. There had been plenty of real letters, iron letters, chalk letters, letters on signs but the most unique was this one piece of plastic that had been shaped by the wind into something other than just a piece of forgotten plastic...
