Checkered Pattern Typography

Hi....  ^^

Picture above is an assignment from my typography lecturer for last semester.

He asked us to create typography using checkered pattern. 

Assignment: Typography

Theme: Checkered Pattern

Color: Colorful

Media: A3 Paper

Number of Rows: 5

Number of Columns: 8

Total Rows x Columns 40Boxes

Font: Up to you (I chose Stencil)

Words: Name (My Name)

Printing: Art Paper 210gram

Software: Adobe Illustrator

When I started doing my assignment, I felt so confused to match boxes one by one. But I finally realized that all I tried to do just wasting my time at all. I didn't find out any tutorial about checkered pattern typography or maybe I dont even knew what was exactly the name of this assignment. I did many mistakes. Create one and Erase one, and so on and so on.... Until I found an easy peasy way to make it. 

Just played with some layers, one layer per one word or two words. U have to create one basic layer to estimated the grid. Then I create one new layer above each single word. At new layer I made rectangle same size as A3 then  I used path and split into grid (put the number you need) with 0 gutter.

Then u can starting like kids drawing: coloring ^^, Active the word layer and background layer then make clipping mask. Ta... Da.... Done.... Easy Peasy... 

U can coloring the boxes when the basic layer is active.

Picture above is my creation for checkered pattern typography. 

Hope ya like it guys... ^^,  

Thank you for reading, Regina