Note following a talk I gave at Inscript.tf, 2024.
This ongoing research uses generative design tools to create type-based imagery, embracing complexity, digital ornamentation, and computational aesthetics. It’s a visual exploration of the intersection between design, typography, and coding tools, where algorithms act like a drawing hand, adding unique forms to typography governed by their own intricate coded systems.
The project exists in a space where fiction and reality intertwine, aiming to develop a new visual aesthetic that envisions type as a living organism, evolving in the liminal space between paper and screen. This hybrid aesthetic forms on type like frost on a window pane, inviting an embrace of complexity and organic growth.
It draws on the feeling of looking through a microscope, observing the design of cracks in the road, or gazing into flowing water until patterns emerge that are beyond recognition. This project seeks an aesthetic of discovery, inviting viewers to lose themselves in unexpected forms and movements.