Letter as Image

For this project we were asked to use two different letters of the alphabet in any readable font to create a design. We could repeat the letters as often as we wanted but had to use at least four gradations of value between black and white in our designs.

I chose the letters "G" and "Y".

This was a simple project but I found that I had a hard time coming up with ideas and thumbnails. I didn't want to use an outrageous font and I aimed to keep it simple.

While playing around with thumbnails I noticed that the "Y" kind of looked like a tree trunk and that if I shrunk other "Y"'s, they would consequently look like branches. I then arranged small "G"'s around those branches to give the sense of leaves.












For our other design, the objective was to have the letters lose their identity.
My idea was simple; I arranged the letters so that they would be behind one another in such a way that their identity was obscured. Then, to add an interesting effect, I layered them in space from largest to smallest.