Project

This is a project we completed in Typography class experimenting 

with typefaces as shape and attempting to create an organic image

using shapes and parts of letters. I quickly discovered that this 

project was more or less to create a2D rubik's cube. NOT EASY. 

You run into problems trying to create cohesion between letter 

width,curve, and whitespace. It turned out to be incredibly 

difficult.

The top left corner:

"G" - bembo (bold italic) lower case

For this quadrant of the piece I cut out the middle section of 

the "g" and rotated it 90 degrees clockwise. This part included 

the lower part of the bowl, the neck/link, as well as a small 

fragment of the loop which can be seen at the top left part 

of the quadrant. 

The top right corner:

"K" - baskerville (bold italic) lower case

For this quadrant of the piece I cut the middle section of 

the "k" and rotated it 90 degrees clockwise. This part includes

the section where the leg joins the arm at the stem. The stem 

as well as the lower part of the leg are the points that join to 

the top of the bowl at the center axis between the two quadrants.

The bottom left corner:

"A" - garamond (semibold italic) lower case

For this quadrant of the piece I cut the upper portion of the "a"

getting the top part of the counter. I then rotated it 180 degrees 

so that the whitespace in the counter lined up with the whitespace 

created by the neck and loop.

The bottom right corner:

"X" - didot (italic) lower case

For this quadrant of the piece I cut the middle/right side of 
a lower case "x" out and rotated it slightly clockwise to that 
the vertical stroke aligned with the arm from the "k" as well
as meeting the other letters to form cohesion in the middle
of the grid.