X Letterpress Print Designed by UIC Print Lab (Daniel Mellis + Madeleine Aguilar)
 
"The letter “X” was ideal for a two-person collaboration as we each could be responsible for one stroke. Daniel took the top left to bottom right stroke. Madeleine took the bottom left to top right stroke. Daniel was interested in escaping the quadrature of the LEGO grid by using hypotenuses of right triangles. Using a thinner base combined with an extra layer of LEGO allowed the long strips to fit onto two carefully chosen studs. His first draft consisted of just the linear pieces combining to make a curve, but Madeleine’s circle-forward design inspired the addition of the decorative circles and matching color combinations. Madeleine was interested in the potential of using a single LEGO piece. She experimented with a design that solely uses Tile, Round 1 × 2 Oval [1126], creating a repeating pattern that has the illusion of Tile, Round 1 × 1 [98138] within the overlaps."
 
This individual unnumbered letterpress print was created for the edition A2Z: Learning Through Lego© and Letterforms by Pedro Neves, Amira Hegazy and Shannon Morrissey.  This edition was printed on a Vandercook Universal I. An extremely limited amount of individual prints are available.
 
Size: 12" x 12"  
 
 
For more information on the project and creation of the A2Z: Learning Through Lego© and Letterforms: https://pedroneves.info/a2z/