Re: [eigen] Owls

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wow! those Chinese figurative calligraphy examples are beautiful.

are you sure the dropbox links are correct?

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Gael Guennebaud
<gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this WE I played with a friend with Chinese figurative calligraphy.
> Here are some famous examples:
>
> http://www.chine-nouvelle.com/chine/insolite/2010-06-29-calligraphie-figurative.html
>
> The idea is to draw something by deforming the word. Of course that
> works better using Chinese characters than our alphabet!
>
> So, we tried to make a owl using one the possible chinese word for
> "eigen" and here are some results:
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/260133/eigen/eigen_logo_01.pdf
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/260133/eigen/eigen_logo_01.odg
>
> As you can see I also put the logo into some real-word pages so that
> we can better appreciate their look. This is how I realize that the
> previous design does not work well for me, so I totally abandoned it.
> Note that in some of the new designs the hat and book are still there
> though.
>
> My favorite is the group (d) on the first page.
>
> gael
>
>



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