Exercise 4 - 3D Pattern

For my 3D pattern, I decided to copy a small section of the pattern I previously made. The bars that run through the crossbars of the lowercase "e". I then extruded these bars upwards so that they stand out and clearly organize the pattern. Also, by adjusting the positions of the linked "e"s, I wanted to create a larger and more distinct void space. Finally, I split the tail of the top and bottom perimeter "e"s so that the pattern was organized inside of a square.

Axon - Rendered

Axon - Wire Frame

Axon - Hidden Line

Plan - Rendered

Plan - Wire Frame

Exercise 3

The initial form for this line weight pattern is two "e"s linked together by their tail ends. I wanted to illustrate my analysis of the e being linked together by it's crosspiece and each letter is like a link in the chain. There are three horizontal band located on the bottom, middle, and top to emphasize that the E is formed with three guiding lines in these places.

My grayscale pattern took the previous pattern exact and altered it by using transparency transformations. I added in the 3 scaled circles to over emphasize the circularity of the letter. I did this by placing the circles, selecting pieces of the letter, then changing their color.

Exercise 2

The concept behind this design is the rigidness of these Russian characters. The composition reflects this concept by creating a pattern of scaled squares which draw your eye to the center.

This font I found to be quite similar to the above one. Both stick to capitals or lowercases, respectively, however this font varies the height of it's letters with 3 datum. I found the spacing in this font rather important to the overall structure of each word and emphasized it by highlighting the area in between each letter with a spiraling pattern which reflect the curvature of the letters.

Sans-Serif - Clean

Sans-Serif - Raw

Serif - Clean

Serif - Raw

Gothic - Clean

Gothic - Raw