These are all examples taken from my notebooks. All of these designs were drawn freehand.

Pretty simple, but quite a strong design.

The blue tick next to the design just means that I intend to reproduce this design formally (using either one of my programs written using Processing 3.0, or produced using Inkscape, a similar program to Adobe Illustrator). My notebooks now contain many designs, and this was a simple way of choosing the most interesting designs. The red tick indicates that I have reproduced this design formally. I haven't always gone back and ticked off the designs that I have reproduced formally. I have, however, formally reproduced all of the designs shown on this page.

These designs are based on considering the 4 x 4 square as 4 quarters, and using the same element in each of the quarters (but rotated 90 degrees as I work my way around the quarters).

The letters written along the top of the design, or down the left hand edge of the design refer to the names of the variables used in my programs for describing the drawing of the designs. The letters across the top refer to "x axis" values (Ax, Bx, etc.), and the letters running down the left side of the figure refer to "y axis" values (Ay, By, Dy, etc.). For example, to draw the first triangle in the top design, I would include the command: "triangle(Ax, Ay, Dx, Ay, Bx, Dy);". This command basically lists the three points of the first triangle: (Ax, Ay) then (Dx, Ay) and finally (Bx, Dy).

The top design shown in this image makes use of the diagonals running between two points separated by a rise of 2 units and a width of 1 unit.

Sometimes, I wanted to develop some strong designs that could possibly be used as a logo for a company. At other times, I wanted to see what interesting patterns I could produce.

The hand-drawn designs on this page represent the truest form of my original idea for developing some simple designs using the '4 x 4 square grid' scheme.