kufic: 'Allah' in Arabic (square doughnut)

kufic/reflection: 'Allah' in Arabic 1
kufic/reflection: 'Allah' in Arabic 2

reflection: 'Allah' in Arabic (diamond)

kufic: 'Allah' in Arabic (octogon)

figure-ground: 'Allah' in Arabic (circle)

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Pushing the brain further: a Yin-Yang-inspired piece.

figure-ground: 'Allah' in Arabic

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Pill-shaped: 'curelixiremedy'. Our first real successful figure-ground ambigram.

tesselation: 'Allah' in Arabic

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Our first successful Escher-esque piece.

kufic: 'Allah' in Arabic

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Came about after our simplistic and amateurish-looking square kufic of the same subject a few posts back, and after being spurred on by awangpurba's motivating challenge ('how about trying an octogon or an eight-sided star...'). Tksih, bro.

After much imagining, thinking, sketching, arranging and (ill-)fitting, we have at last succeeded in designing an original nagfa 'Allah' kufic, to add to the numerous designs already available:

kufic: Allah (earthy)
kufic: Allah (cheery)
kufic: Allah (cool)

kufic: Allah (primary)

kufic: Allah (tonal)

It started with a stylised Arabic 'Allah':

stylised logo: Allah in Arabic

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After duplicating, flipping horizontally and then combining:

reflection: white
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Then, duplicating that and placing it underneath, and putting in extra bars to highlight a rough diamond outline:

reflection: white2

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After which the form is duplicated and placed in a rigid grid formation, filling the spaces with smaller versions of the same form:

concept piece (tesselation): white (reflected from Allah)