Finally!

It only took about a month for these to sprout, now they are growing like nobody’s business. I couldn’t resist the pots are so tiny..

My “Hand”

Casted Glass, with molded glass bits.

Mill Creek Final Ads.

The Finished Ads for Mill Creek Farm shown above.

Photo of the sign making in progress.

Now that the models are done for each farm, I can step back and really look at them. I personally feel each farms signs still speak the same language when you look at them, they also have the differences that make  each farm unique and stand out. It shows that our system of graphics can work. Each farm can still be their own funky urban farm, but subtly be joined together and recognized by our graphic system.

The man in the way.

This guy was just standing there, in the middle of the street as people past by him. It took me a minute to figure out what this guy was doing. Can you tell how different he is then the people behind him? Very clever if you ask my opinion.

Gorillas on parade.

If you past a clan of protesting gorillas wouldn’t you snap a picture? I did. The thing I never figured out was what exactly were they protesting about, play more bongos and do the konga?

Urban Farming Signs

This is a concept for a paint by number sign going along with the other urban farm signs I posted, and also shown in the system graph below. This is a low budget way to advertise the farm and involve the community to help paint it.

Here is the graph

By having our graph  best explain each different way, whether it be a small community urban garden or an established urban farm, whether  you have 10 dollars or 100 dollars to spend, you can obtain a system of our graphics to unify your farm and link it with urban farming. Our graphic system has multiple options that you can choose and incorporate your own information into, like web site, address, logo…..whatever you want.

Stool.

Keyholes? who dosent love ’em? I sure do!

PATCO People.

Recently I was asked to make a video of a day in my life in a minute. I realized from making this video that I spend a large amount of each day on the PATCO high speedline. I spend more time on a train with strange people I dont even know then with my own family. Since I spend so much time with these people on the train, I figured they wouldnt mind if I took pictures of them to make this collage. Some people gave me dirty looks while others pretended there wasnt some unknown girl taking pictures of them.  Even though I take the train to and from school everyday, I rarely ever see the same people, so I doubt I will ever see the people in these pictures any time soon. I think I just wanted to piss people off….one of those days.

If you want to see my video check it out here

Google Urban Farm Map

A map from Mill Creek to Greensgrow Farm that is united by our graphics.

Farm Ad’s

The majority of the food we consume travels 1,500 miles on average before we eat it. There are abundant sources of locally produced food in urban areas. Only a small percentage of people are supporting this local food system. Currently there is nothing that unifies the growing network of local food producers. I am currently collaborating with two other people on an urban farm project. Our plan is to implement a simple set of graphics to give local agriculture its own identity that consumers will easily recognize.

“OKRA HERE”  First prototype of advertising series. These large posters are going to be hung up at Mill Creek Farm and Greens Grow Farm. Mill Creek and Greens Grow are both local farms that provide their communities with fresh produce. These large scale posters will help to unify as well as promote viewers to buy local. “Okra here” is hand painted on tyvek.

In a few weeks I will post our final models on site. You can see our project and the other projects for urban farming at www.farmphilly.com