Crawley Library

Recently Why Not Associates were commissioned with creating a piece of work to stand in Crawley Library, in collaboration with Gordon Young from Crawley Library they developed these typographic tree columns. The columns now stand at various points within the library seemingly growing up through the building. I think this is an excellent example of situation and design working together. The trees seem to be an almost too perfect instalment in the library, almost as if books are growing, already written and simply ready to be chopped down and read. I think this is a lovely sentiment, that the library, that literature is alive and growing. It gives an organic feel to what many people may feel is some rich authors job, or a stuffy old book. It also however brings the magic of books alive and one could imagine these creations growing in many of the fairy tales stood on the shelves.

The typography, is amazing, with a different font and style on each tree, like a different species. The craftsmanship is beautiful, another testament to hand rendering over computers in something such as this, stories are so personal, it is nice, even if it is not the case that the trees look hand carved. It also reminded me that typography can be used over almost any surface and to think of it on a flat piece of paper is a shame. I am always amazed at what can be created simply with typography.

Why not associated who created these are a design company with a global reach and they have created some other fantastic pieces of work. There website is well worth a look.http://http//www.whynotassociates.com/en/recent.php