How Many Plants. A illustrated shelf system where the page title sits inside bands of potted plants and brass instruments.

How Many Plants is a warm botanical editorial — a cream-paper broadside where a single golden-olive hue carries every illustration, banner, and accent. The hero is built from horizontal illustrated shelves in mustard that interlock with oversized display type, turning the page title into a shelf of plant pots, books, and vases. Surfaces are flat and paper-like; shadows are hard 6px offsets in the mustard itself, not soft drops, giving every decorated element the look of a cut-and-paste collage. The palette is ruthlessly small — cream canvas, black ink, one saturated gold, one dusty lavender, one dark teal — and that constraint IS the identity. Typography mixes a chunky geometric display face with a typewriter secondary, so headings feel poster-like while body copy stays intimate and typewritten.