Study for Plyformed Wood Company Logo

Ray designed this logo for the Plyformed Wood Company, Charles and Ray’s first business, which operated out of the couple’s small apartment. Though the company was dissolved after just one year in order to expand their means of production, the logo lived a much longer life. They partnered with the Evans Product Company and together formed the Evans Molded Plywood Productions Division, and Ray’s design was repurposed as the mark for this business as well. In this study for the logo, Ray depicts a biomorphic shape in two different positions, suggesting that it exists in three dimensions; it can be moved around and seen from different vantage points. The form resembles those found in sculpture’s Ray made to test the properties of plywood, suggesting it came out of these experiments.