You can do this in any way you like – use calligraphy, collage, paint or draw it. Once I attended a dinner where the author/illustrator Shaun Tan was speaking and he suggested writing your name using a standard font in a fresh, new way - like using a mirror image of a letter, or placing it upside-down or cutting it in half and have the top as the bottom.
You could include the meaning of your name, the version you prefer, or a ‘nickname’.
How important is your name to your identity?
Have fun with it and I’m looking forward to seeing your ‘creations’.
I ended up putting Kathy on the front and various versions on the back. These included different ways I was taught to write - printing, italics and modified cursive - as during my schooling I wrote my name, 'Kathleen', in all of these scripts. I tried Shaun Tan's idea and I also accidentally moved one letter to make 'Athyk'.
I pondered how I gladly changed my surname when I married as my husband and I started a new family - is my name linked to my predecessors or descendants? Maybe I should use both.
Does it matter? Would I really feel any different being called something else like 'Athyk' rather than 'Kathy'?
How meaningful is my name to who I truly am?
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