Axe

Axe takes its starting point from the rounded head of a traditional axe. Removed from its familiar handle, that outline becomes surprisingly fluid.

Once repeated, the connection with the original tool quickly falls away. Instead, the pattern starts to feel more like a grid seen through moving water. There is structure underneath, but nothing appears completely still.

That sense of flow is what gives Axe its character. Lines seem to wander from their expected course, while the underlying order keeps everything together. It is almost as though a regular grid has softened without quite losing its shape.

Water does this beautifully. Look through a shallow pool and familiar geometry can bend, stretch and briefly dissolve. Straight lines become curves, then return as the surface settles.

Axe has some of that same visual looseness. The starting point may be a very solid object, yet repetition takes it somewhere altogether more fluid.

I like the contrast between those two ideas. A tool associated with weight and force becomes the basis for a pattern that seems to move.