Four Panel Sequence

The four-panel sequence was an assignment that tasked me with creating an abstract panel that was split up into 4 sections that gradually got closer to revealing the design being entirely made out of one typeface letter.

Research

For researching, we were tasked with looking at many different typefaces and picking one that we truly like that had unique, distinct attributes about it to create a nice abstract design that would reveal the letter lastly. The lower case italic a of Galliard pro had a unique lip to the end of its tail and the bulge of the a expanding out.

Sketching

Sketching process of trying multiple different designs of the lowercase A's design to create an abstract four-panel sequence.

Sketch

Digital Iterations

After sketching digital iterations, I designed multiple four-panel sequences in Adobe Illustrator, trying new and more creative ways to scale the letters and experimenting with different parts of the letters not shown in the sketches.

Ideation

Refinement

Digital refinements of the iterations play with the sequence being more abstract and the reveal being worthy of surprise when the eye moves left to right, showcasing how every panel was created by a letter.