designit in barcelona: an introduction to generative design

Hello.I’m Guy.

Generative Design Guy Haviv Designit

Design Hacking / Generative Design

a brief introduction to

Introduction

Nowadays, kids already know all about the creative software used for design

— all we can do is teach you how to think.

I’ve heard this from several teachers at Shenkar:

Introduction

Nowadays, kids already know all about the creative software used for design

— all we can do is teach you how to think.

I’ve heard this from several teachers at Shenkar:

Introduction

What I learned from Dan, a friend of mine who’s an illustrator

Introduction

be obsessed with the process.

Draw > Xerox to 2000% > Draw Again > Scan > Add type

Introduction

everyone’s using the same tools?

let’s tinker with the tools then.

Introduction

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We should master our tools, and then alter them.

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Core Image Fun Housegenerative tool #01

Get it when downloading Xcode:http://developer.apple.com/technologies/xcode.html

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Mac only

Take an image and stack a bunch of live pixel effects on top of it.

(originally made as a framework exploration tool)

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Core Image Fun House

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(demo).

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Processinggenerative tool #03

processing.org

Mac & PCOpen source

Maybe the most well known generative design tool.

Open source, very well documented.

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Processing

Write simplified Java code, get visual results.

Thousands of samples to play with.

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Quartz Composergenerative tool #02

Get it when downloading Xcode:http://developer.apple.com/downloads

Mac only

Node based visual language for mixing image, video, audio, code & other media.

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Quartz Composer

Quartz Composer files are called Compositions.

They are used on the Mac as:Screen saversiTunes visualizersKeynote plugins

They are also playable on any Mac with Quicktime.

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I used Quartz Composer to create an interactive poster.

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(demo).

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Quartz Composergenerative tool #02

Get it when downloading Xcode:http://developer.apple.com/downloads

Mac only

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Quartz Composer

Get “Graphic tools for Xcode”

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NodeBoxgenerative tool #04

nodebox.net

Mac onlyOpen Source

NodeBox is fucking awesome.

You write Python code & generate vector graphics.

Copy as PDF to Illustrator to continue tweaking.

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NodeBox

My first gig at nascent was writing a script that served as the basis of the Kodak Leaf visual language

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Kodak Leaf brand visual languageDesigned by Roy Yogev

I used NodeBox to generate infographic posters

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JVP brand identity work

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and also in a branding project to wrap shapes around paths

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and also in a branding project to wrap shapes around paths

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(demo).

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ScriptographerIllustrator scripting plugin

generative tool #05

scriptographer.org

Mac & PCOpen source

Scriptographer is an interactive scripting environment for Illustrator.

It adds a palette with scripts and a few tools - all of which can be edited and manipulated.

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(demo).

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PostScript Hackinggenerative tool #06

What happens if you output an Illustrator file to .ps, and then play with random numbers inside?

And then open the .ps with Adobe Distiller to make it a PDF to view the results?

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Then, distill the .ps fileback to a PDF.

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I used postscript hacking mainly to distort shapes

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I used postscript hacking mainly to distort shapes

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Design ‘Hacking’

Optional:

Be a screen capture ninja.

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hack #01

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Cmd+Shift+3Cmd+Shift+4Cmd+Shift+4 ... Space(Copies Windows’ drop shadows!)

also:try these with Ctrl added

use Space like in Illustrator

Be an iconcapture ninja.

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hack #02

Copy any file/folder in FinderOpen PreviewCmd+Nw00t.

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hack #02: Be an icon capture ninja.

Understand the.AI + .PDF relationship

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hack #03

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Illustrator is an incredible app - it has forward compatibility.

Each .ai file actually has a hidden .pdf file inside.

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.ai + pdf bundles enable QuickLook on .ai files.

Be an app bundle researcher/ninja.

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hack #04

The Finder has a trick called bundles.

Bundles are folders that act like single files.

They hide some good stuff inside.

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.app files are bundles.Let’s look at an example.

iWork files used to be bundles.Let’s extract some media from a .keynote document

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Fonts are usually embedded within PDFs

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hack #05

When you export a file to PDF, the relevant fonts are being embedded into that PDF.

And you can extract them.Get FontForge to try this stuff out.

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(demo?).

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Be aPDF-everywhere ninja.

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hack #06

Printers speak PostScript.

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PDFs are PostScript wrappers.

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Illustrator is like a planning environment for PDFs.

Macs speak PDF quite fluently.

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Nearly every time you see something on screen, it’s a vector PDF.

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Macs speak PDF quite fluently.

GrapherDictionaryiCal

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(demo).

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Slides available on:http://tinyurl.com/designhacking

learn more / explore:http://www.creativeapplications.net/http://www.generatorx.no/category/tools-code/

thank you.

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