Author: DRMLTPN

Dear Flexible System Designers,  I have been working on the Foundation Course and released the first two lessons. Even if you are already a pro and even if you have read my book, you will find new thoughts around identities I just developed recently.  I don’t know about you, but my brain is slow and…

Dear Flexible System Designers,  It’s been a year since I published my first online course on www.flexiblevisualsystems.info. Over this year, I’ve developed six courses comprising more than 50 lessons, alongside 20 articles, interviews, and over 50 newsletters. This juncture prompts a reassessment to clarify what makes sense teaching in the future—and perhaps more crucially—what does…

Dear Flexible System Designers,  as you already know from the lectures I gave last fall, I consider you the 21st-century designers, and the rise of AI last year made this even clearer to me. While spending some time in London I wrote an article for the biggest German design magazine PAGE about design and AI,…

Dear Flexible System Designers,  I wrote a new article. This time I wrote about Coding Systems. I won’t tell you much about it in this newsletter. Only so much, it is not just an article about the past, present, and future of Coding Systems, but in general about what I believe is important when founding…

Happy New Year, Flexible System Designers! 🎉  Starting the year off strong with a brand-new lesson in the “Grid as Transformational Tools” course! Today, I won’t keep you long—after all, post-celebration recovery might be in order. Wishing you all an amazing beginning to this promising year ahead. Here’s to a lesson filled with joy and…

Dear Flexible System Designers,  In Europe, almost everyone is on vacation and I am going to take it a bit slower too. I will spend some time with my family, think about all the good and bad that happened this year, and hopefully draw some conclusions for the next.  I know already so much. The…

Dear Flexible System Designers,  I am in the flow, creating lessons for the “Grids as Transformational Tools” course. This week I have spent some time with the triangle and we have established a fruitful relationship. It has been a lot of fun making these different grids and patterns based on the triangle and I can’t…

Dear Flexible System Designers,  A new lesson from the “Grids as Transformational Tools” course is ready! I am having so much fun with this approach. After having done a lot of lessons dealing with components, this approach feels completely different. Access the new lesson here: https://flexiblevisualsystems.info/courses/gridtransform/gridcircle/ I also made changes to the “courses”  and “home”…

Good Morning Flexible System Designers, WOOP! WOOP! I released the first lesson of a new course, called “Grids as Transformational Tools — How Grids Can Become Visual Identities”. This is the very first course that shows how to build a flexible system based on transformation. Instead of components, we are going to design a process…

Dear Flexible System Designers, I am back in Hamburg after seven weeks in Barcelona. As always I had such a great time, teaching Data Visualization and Type Design at Elisava, giving lectures at Blanc Festival and We Are Pau, swimming in the sea, and enjoying friends, food, and sun. There is lots to talk and…