Typography - 9 Square Letters

Assignment: Using 9-Square grids, explore the use of image and letter forms to convey mood, spatial ambiguity, dynamic composition, and pattern. The grid template is used to organize cuts made from magazine prints into orderly arrangements that display an intentional use of the frame to subtract unnecessary detail and focus the viewer on elements in a considered way.

Arrange magazine letterform cuts in the grid such that positive-negative spatial relationships between the letterforms and the frames themselves become ambiguous. Work in black and white. Try to make it unclear whether it is a white letterform on a black field or a black letter form in a white field. Determine how much of the letter can be cut away and still have just enough left for recognition.

For this assignment, I focused less on making the letters look ambiguous and more on making the letters flow into each other and relate. I really like the thin and thick lines used in the A and the H. The angle of the A was mirrored in the B. The letters in the lower right were all arranged to seamlessly connect to each other so that its a bit hard to tell where the J becomes the K becomes the Q becomes the S and ends at the B. I feel that there is a bit of disconnect between the first 5 and the last 4, but I liked both halves to much to change either. I probably should have broken them apart and done two separate ones based on those bits. Maybe next time.