I’ve been working on this all evening…. well after our thanksgiving meal here at home. Thanks to rocketdock, some custom iconization using my swirls (including a full and empty trash can icon), a wallpaper from Desktopography, and a file called SH_TaskBar (download below) to remove the windows taskbar on startup.
My goal was to have a desktop with minimum icons, focused on design and usability, without a bunch of headaches in between. Granted, I could buy a Mac, but I don’t have that kind of money.
It is odd to me how one abstraction concept leads to another. What started out as 100px x 100px square “words” has become large rather complicated ideas.
I’ve even started putting these into svg file formats so that later I can do more with them. Not sure what yet. I guess the beauty with any kind of abstraction is that it is what it is without really needing to say more.
Enjoy.
I’m not exactly sure how this abstraction style is moving forward, but this one didn’t start out as a face. Here, it almost looks like I am channeling Piccaso (not intentional). The word I used as inspiration for this piece is “drive”.
Available as a 20×20 print.
I’ve incorporated some new colors into this second set of TWWP. Intitially, I thought I’d keep it all black but the more I was drawing, the more I felt color should be added to the mix. Have a word or name you want me to draw, let me know.
I have often looked at different languages’ written words and wondered who and how they came up with that particular shape for a particular letter or word. I’ve set out on a personal creative journey to create an artistic expression of what the written word would look like if I was the designer. I’ve played a bit with this concept before but never quite in this way. My swirls of before never really were anything other than something interesting. Now they have taken on a new life as I think about each word and try to pen what feelings come to mind in pen strokes when I think about that word.
