After seeing Yue’s creative “Fish” entry for the DS106 Word assignment, I decided I wanted to give it a try too.

At first I wanted to ‘Tangerine’ with the ‘T’ as a stem and the rest of the word circling it, but sadly it looked too much like a melon. I then tried ‘Temple’ and made something that was ‘ok’ but was really much more of a small Christian church inspired design that I didn’t think represented the word temple well.

Finally, I came up with the idea to do the word ‘Bible’.  I’m an avowed atheist, but I thought it’d be a fun word to do because the two B’s could act as pages. That’s ultimately what I did in GIMP. To make it seem more like an open book I used the perspective tool to make the B go upward and then copied it, pasted it, and flipped it to make the other half. the remain letters, ile, didn’t inspire me much so I just put them in the center. The font I chose was “Modern No. 20” which was primarily for the letter B, loved the font.

When I first started on this assignment I actually thought I could do a more interesting design. I was a bit surprised at how long it took and how many ideas I went through before I came to something that was decent.

Also, I did myself too