2 weeks ago for essential graphics design, we did typography. We wrote a word on text and were to transform it into an image using outline. I initially wrote the word illuminate as I wanted to play around with the words using the anchor point tools. I eventually shortened the word to Nate as illuminate was too long. I got the idea Date from the letter E. The middle stem of the E resembles an arrow. 

Hence, I changed the N to a D so that I could make D look like a bow and add an arrow. 

The whole text was to reflect a victorian feel, hence the letter T, looks like a sword.