Museum of Topiary Arts: Brand Design
The objective of this project is to create a unique and impactful brand identity for the museum, which effectively captures its values, goals, and cultural relevance through a visually striking design.
What is Topiary?
Topiary art is the ancient and more familiar kinds of living sculpture. Topiary art can be described as growing dense, leafy plants especially shrubs and pruning them into a form, or training them over a frame, to create a three-dimensional object. Simply, it is the art of Cutting and trimming shrubs into decorative shapes and designs.
History
Earliest references of topiary date back to 23-79 A.D. Topiary arts is said to have been invented by a friend of the ancient Roman emperor Augustus. It was immensely popular in Ancient Rome using cypress trees, but after the fall of Rome, topiary fell out for several hundred years. It returned in medieval times as a way of training fruit plants, and then was again rediscovered during the Italian Renaissance. In 15th century Dutch became intrigued with creating topiary in animal shapes while The French preferred creating topiary in geometric designs with strict symmetry. Topiary spread to North America in around 1690. Topiary art was called the art of Tree Barber in 18th century.
Brainstorming
Playing with shapes
Logo Series
Identity
Applications
Signage
