Genuary Word — Catalogue Pixel-Letter Block System
A study in pixel-letterforms

Genuary Word

Seven letters, drawn as pixel grids, and rendered one block at a time in a curated palette.

For fashion houses, textile studios and surface designers. Each composition is generated from a numeric seed and can be licensed, adapted or commissioned to your brief.

Issue Genuary Word — Autumn 2026
Discipline Generative Composition
Edition Seed-based · Open series
00 / Statement Artist Statement

A letter drawn in a grid stops being a word and becomes a field of blocks.

I am an Iranian-born artist working at the intersection of classical textile logic and generative systems. My work begins with a simple observation: the woven surface — repetitive, mathematically structured, infinitely variable — has always been a form of computation, long before computers.

Genuary Word takes the seven letters of the word GENUARY and rebuilds them as pixel grids — each letter a 5 × 7 matrix of ones and zeros. Each cell is then rendered as a block: a rectangle, a circle, or a rounded square, chosen once per composition.

Behind the letters: a hand-rolled gradient background drawn as a hundred and fifty hairlines, plus film grain applied across the whole canvas. The result reads as poster — half typographic, half painted. Each piece is defined by a numeric seed and can be regenerated, documented, and adapted for textile, print, and surface applications.

On AI tools — where I encountered technical obstacles, I turned to AI tools for debugging and code optimization. Every structural, aesthetic, and conceptual decision remained my own.
01 / Plate

Typed,
not just drawn.

02 / Surfaces

One word.
Many surfaces.

The same seed, presented as an archival print — and applied across fabric, scarf, textile and wall surfaces without loss of structure.

Plate 001 Archival print · 1 : 1 · Open edition

Applied across surfaces.

Every surface below is drawn from the same numeric seed — its repeat, orientation and scale adapted to the material, while the underlying structural logic remains identical.

iPrint
Archival print
1 : 1 · Cotton rag
iiScarf
Silk scarf
3 : 1 · Twill silk
iiiTextile
Fabric yardage
4 : 3 · Repeat tile
ivWall
Wallpaper
2 : 3 · Vertical repeat
03 / Process

Structure
behind the word.

01 / Seed

Variation

A numeric seed picks one of four curated five-colour palettes, one block type (rect, circle, or rounded), the stroke colour, and the per-cell jitter that gives the letters their hand-made feel. Each output is regenerated and documented as a distinct work.

02 / Lettering

Geometry

The word GENUARY is decomposed into seven 5 × 7 pixel grids. Each cell set to "1" is rendered as a block at its grid position, with a soft drop-shadow beneath. A gradient background and film grain complete the composition.

03 / Surface

Application

The resulting composition becomes a surface-design asset — explored across garments, textile prints, wallpaper and other pattern-driven applications.

04 / Archive

Selected
seeds.

8 compositions · Open series Click any plate to load it above
For brands & studios

One system.
Many surfaces.

Genuary Word is a generative design system rather than a single artwork. Its pixel-letter language can be adapted for fashion, textile development and other surface-oriented contexts — while maintaining a computational origin.

i
Licensing Existing seeds from the archive, licensed for production use.
ii
Commission New compositions designed to your palette, repeat and product.
iii
Systems A private generative tool built for your studio's ongoing use.
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