This week’s design is almost identical to last week’s, but with one small change. That tweak has created a whole new design with much more movement and colouring opportunities. Can you see what’s different?

I tried a few other colour combinations, and used transparency in each one.

The difference is that instead of using a simple square as the middle block in each ‘flower’ shape, it’s now a square-in-a-square block.

Remember last week’s chonky flowers? Here they are with square-in-a-square centres:

(Also, I’m in love with that blue and dark grey colour combo.) Here’s some more flowery palettes.

I prefer the chonkier flowers from last week; they’re less refined but just strike me as happier and funnier (and more fun).

But this new design creates opportunities for moving away from ‘flowers’ into other more abstract shapes. There’s now a connection between the different ‘arms’ of each shape – instead of the north/south/east/west arms being separate from each other, they’re now connected to adjacent arms through that centre piece. This creates a bunch of 90-degree ‘V’ shapes that can be coloured separately.

I’m still playing with these shapes, so I may have more related designs to share next week!