Alphabet Soup - In Depth Research - OUGD403

Before I go into finalising my idea's and producing them digitally I firstly wanted to make sure I had explored all possible directions in terms of how I could represent my given word (Saturate(d)).

Here are a few images I have picked out and why they could help me represent my word:

A possibility is animating the letters in a similar style to this piece. I think it represents the word saturated in the form of water, and in this case, waves.

Here is one I like for its minimal style, it's a possibility but quite sparse, therefore for me to do something similar to this would mean I'd have to add more waves defeating the object of keeping it simple.

I love how this is an optical illusion. It really creates a sense of movement and could easily represent my word with a little alteration.

This is probably my favourite out of all of the selected images. I like how it is represented in a 3d form (Obviously for my designs to be classed as a proper typeface, I couldn't actually use this technique for every single letter.). In my opinion, this image represents saturated more than any of the others.

This could make for an interesting square format throughout my letters. If the lines could join it would look like one continuous line of waves.

Here is an alternative approach to what I have currently been looking at. If the letters were to look at if they are reflecting against water I think it would be very effective as I could actually apply this in real life by reflecting letters of water, taking pictures and tracing them in Illustrator.

Again another square format image. I would be limited with this style at it would be difficult to achieve in the given time for the brief. But I could experiment to see if it would work better than the other idea's.