Interactive week

Generative Type using p5.js p5.js is a Javascript library that takes the spirit from Processing and translates it to Javascript. Its goal is to make coding accessible for designers by making it as easy as possible to draw graphical output to the screen. In this workshop I will introduce p5.js and teach the basics of programming in that environment starting with the very basics. So, no knowledge of programming is neccessary beforehand. All we need is a good code editor and a modern browser. Please have a good code editor like Sublime Text installed. As a little project we will to do some experiments on Generative Type. Generative Type means that type will be drawn and modified using animation, randomness, user input. The students may work in teams of two or three people.

If it ain’t fun, make it fun! In this workshop, you will learn NodeBox Live, a not yet released version of NodeBox (nodebox.net). It is a tool to create generative art/design and data-visualizations. You will learn to code with a visual interface and instant visual feedback of the result. If you prefer to code, you can do that as well in NodeBox Live and create your own functional nodes. All your work can be instantly published to your/a website and easily made interactive. You can generate entire websites as well. Or a generator that generates websites (this is not fake news but can result in a lot of fake news!) Or a generative font, book, poster, animation, logo, background or all of that at once. Or if you have interesting data, you could visualize that too. Be warned though: if your data are not clean then the fun will be postponed until you cleaned it! It’s up to you to decide if that is fun. The first two days are spent on courses, the rest of the week on your own project. F