Published: January 21, 2008 in design » art by Thomas Baekdal
Remember WEB2DNA where you can turn your website into a personal piece of art? Now, 26Gallery has come up with another way for you to create personal art - in the form of unusual 3D words.
It is actually quite brilliant. It works by horizontally rotating the word you have chose in 3D, and sticking them together to create a very beautiful painting.
The only bad thing is that the size of each letter is fixed, thus it's not really practical for longer words. The recommended maximum amount is only 6 characters - great if you want it to read "baekdal", but not very practical if you want it to be "quadradimensionality".
Update: Michael, the creator of this amazing work, points out that the size of the letters are not fixed. He writes "You are correct, longer words can create a very long canvas but the size of the letters are not fixed. I can adjust them to fit just about any size canvas a person prefers. It does tend to look a bit cluttered though when you do spell out "quadradimensionality" but I'd be happy to give it a shot!".
Thanks, Michael!
In any case it looks impressive.
BTW: Can you figure out the words used in the images above? Here is a hint: "Act" is the second one and "Love" is the 6th...
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Hmmm... I think you may be right about that
Thanks Thomas for appreciating my artwork. You are correct, longer words can create a very long canvas but the size of the letters are not fixed. I can adjust them to fit just about any size canvas a person prefers. It does tend to look a bit cluttered though when you do spell out "quadradimensionality" but I'd be happy to give it a shot!
Thanks again!
I just had my kids initials done for their bedrooms. Both Prints look awesome. I did a pinkish tone for my daughter and blue tones for my boy. I want one for the living room, but I already have some nice art hanging there. Great conversation pieces for sure. I heard my daughter trying to explain ho to read it to her friend. It took a while for a 5 year old giorl to figure it out, but once we showed her the website she got it. Have fun trying to figure out the words above, it took me a while to get them all. Good day
Well the 7th one says "PEACE" and the 8th one says "SLEEP" but I'm not sure what the other ones say.
They are quite interesting though, but the selection of colors aren't too my liking.
very nice idea!! :) thanks for sharing.
what are the answers? I saw live, peace, love, art, eat, sleep. I'm challenged by the last 2. any clues?
Hi Michael....check out some architectural drawings from about 1750 or 1800; the job was to design a building that looked like a letter. All real. The inside of the A, for example, was a courtyard. Best thing is, both an elevation (facade shot) AND a floor plan complete with rooms, doors, walls, etc, is provided. The architect does the entire alphabet.
Not sure where to find it...but I have an address book using the designs. They are both strange and fun.
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this very nice model I like it
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Jan 23
2008
Ben Langille
Are you sure that the second one doesn't say '"Art" instead of "Act"?