Chronicling the Martians
I designed a book cover/poster for Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles as my final Printing Code project. To prepare for the assignment, I reread a few of the stories and looked at the covers for previous editions. I also looked at…
Wrapping up the Makerbot
As we were approaching holiday season, it only seemed appropriate that Rune would require us to design some wrapping paper. The clever thing about this assignment was that we were designing wrapping paper for Makerbot, a company that makes 3D…
Olivetti, Bezier, and Weighted Randomness
For this assignment, we were supposed to select a classic Olivetti typewriter poster to recreate in code. All of the posters employ randomness (or at least perceived randomness) as a design principle. I chose this one: This is my version…
Logo Bordello
My favorite band, Gogol Bordello, changes its logo with each album. While each logo feels like the band, there is little consistency in design. It was a perfect starting point for my generative logo assignment. To redesign Gogol Bordello’s logo,…
An Homage to Bradbury
Earlier this year, the world lost one of its most prolific science fiction authors, Ray Bradbury. He was also one of my favorite authors; I was a devoted reader of his novels and short stories. His books have had many…
On the Grid
Much of my work for Printing Code, including the generative work, has been very deliberately controlled. Rune challenged us to work outside of our usual style–careful plotters should work more haphazardly, and vice versa. The grid assignment seemed like a…
A Font of My Very Own
My first foray into font design was a wondrous accident. Our assignment was to design a font for a word, and Rune suggested that we use the Geomerative library for Processing, which converts true-type fonts into a series of points…
My Identity as a Poster
In Printing Code, we discussed computational color schemes, which allow designers to select a set of colors that work together without clashing. The follow-up assignment was to design a generative poster that serves as an abstract representation of my identity…
Wet/Sharp
The second assignment for Printing Code was to create an image that evokes the concept of “wet” in one shape, and the concept of “sharp” in another. For “sharp,” I thought jagged lines would be most effective. I wanted them…
Ice Cream
The first assignment for Printing Code was to design an ice cream cone, using only the ellipse(), rect(), and triangle() functions in Processing, and using them only once each. Looping, of course, was allowed. I decided that the best way…