Recently I was given the challenge of finding an alphabet. Not making one or arranging one to be found, but looking at something with new eyes and finding the letters of the alphabet within. The alphabet had to have a theme and had to have a good name.
I found all the letters of the alphabet hiding within the frame of my bike. Here is what I came up with:
I cut all the letters from their backgrounds and resized them to provide a usable typeface, but cutting them from their original photo did lose the context of the bike. So here is the same piece with the background remaining in the photo. The letters are not as bold but this time, the bike is clearly seen around them.
The K and Z I do admit to – I placed the bike pump casually against the bike to form part of the letter. I searched and searched for these two letters and could not find them, so I used the allowed “tiny bit of manipulation if absolutely necessary” clause that was provided as part of the challenge.
The rest were found just as they are within the bike. The water bottle holder yielded many letters (F, G, L, N and S) and the wheels and spokes provided the C, E and H. D is stitching on the seat and R is a repeated motif on the tyre.
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