"KAIZEN" Design Sample - Word Symbols

So, the other day I wrote THIS post about an idea I have been chewing on, which in short is to design word symbols for people - be it a name or just a word which resonates with you or someone you know. I have a few ideas of where I would like to take this but as yet, have not settled on anything other than the fact that I know I want to offer it to people.

In the above mentioned post, I said I would be happy to do a few pro bono designs for people that dropped the word or name they want into the comments - and everyone is still welcome to do that, wither on the original post or this one. The first taker on that post was Hive account@my-musings and although he put forward two requests, I decided to work with the first one - and the word requested was "KAIZEN".

I stand to be corrected, but from what I discovered... the word is of Japanese origin and it means "change for the better" which I think is a REALLY awesome choice of word and definitely something worthy of turning into a symbol.

As I mentioned previously, there are so many avenues that these symbol designs could go and I have not really settled on the direction just yet - ie. whether I simply charge a flat rate for the design as a once off thing and then the buyer can do whatever they want with it or perhaps I create them as NFT's at a set price - I am undecided, but being that I sell quite a bit of design work via print on demand sites, I was obviously hoping to incorporate customised merch into the whole thing... nonetheless, like I said, I am wanting to do some freebies so people can get a better idea of what I mean by creating "word symbols" and also to give a clearer idea of the scope this concept has - each design being completely unique in style and end result.

I had a lot of fun fiddling with this one last night and don't worry Hive account@creativemary and Hive account@diebitch... you ladies are up next :) and I am equally looking forward to putting both your requests together.

I uploaded a short sample video of the process to youtube, but only for the purpose of showing you guys - the video is unlisted as I do not use youtube for anything else. I also made quite a few design tweaks after that too, but it's just for the general idea anyway.