It looks like Stefan has gone ahead and answered the ISTD brief for me with his photographic illustration entitled 'having guts always works out for me'.
I think it is a really interesting idea to incorporate hand drawn text, physically within the plants natural cycle. The lettering dies along with the plant.
Below are some more amazing typographic designs inspired by natural forms, created by Stefan Segmeister.
Bela Borsodi
This design may not use plant forms but demonstrates a photographic way of creating typography with other object shapes, lovly use of colour as well.
