GREEN MAN

These are Emblemry’s own words, written before the badge was drawn.

Subject

A watchful Green Man foliate head formed from overlapping oak leaves and hawthorn sprays, with a stout central face emerging from the foliage; acorn forms and small hawthorn berry clusters are worked into the surrounding leaf mass.

Motifs

• foliate head Anchor

  A large, simplified central face with strong brow, nose, eyes and beard-like leaf contours, built directly from layered oak foliage and hawthorn sprigs in worn screen-print shapes.

• oak leaves Supporting

  Lobed leaf silhouettes overlap around the forehead, cheeks and lower face, with a few acorns tucked into the outer foliage.

• hawthorn Supporting

  Thorny twig arcs, small rounded leaves and restrained berry clusters weave through the oak forms, especially around the temples and lower edge.

Palette

Use muted aged forest green and deep olive for the foliage, warm parchment cream for the face highlights and title field, and dark umber for outlines, lettering and distressed letterpress detail.

Composition

Set the GREEN MAN title prominently on a broad lower banner, leaving the upper interior for the face and its leaf crown. Let the foliate head fill the central silhouette while oak and hawthorn spread outward into a near-round emblem edge; retain a calm parchment breathing space around the eye sockets, nose bridge and between the outer foliage and border. Use a sturdy irregular seal border, hand-set display lettering, ink gaps, worn edges and sparse speckling.