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I created a set of icons relating to the ocean. I only use the characters or parts of characters within the font Helvetica Bold to construct my icons and build my poster. Throughout the process of making my poster, I scaled them to different sizes, rotate them, bleed them off the edge, etc. and all nine of them appeared at least once. I also used the color blue for the background and tints of the same blue color for the icons.

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There were specific parameters and restrictions to be followed for the icons, such as using only the knife tool to cut characters and making straight cuts cut across the thickness of the character's stroke. I could copy and reuse parts or rotate and reflect parts. But, I could not edit or change the underlying path of the characters, and also not skew or distort the characters. I worked with black and white only (positive/negative), meanwhile not creating solid fields of black to cut new shapes from. I had to avoid mixing too many components that have been scaled differently and not fill in counterforms.