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Hey! If you know me, you know that before becoming a system designer, I was an illustrator and that I still love illustration so much. Will Mower combines illustration and system design beautifully, which is why I have been a longtime fan of his work. Over the past few weeks, I have had the pleasure…

Dear System Designers, A new interview is now live! For a while now, I’ve been talking about the importance of motion systems, but I’ve never sat down with someone whose day-to-day business is making these systems flexible for big clients in need of multiple formats. That changes with one of the best motion designers I…

Good Morning everyone! Today I am especially happy to be able to introduce you to Joan Ramon Pastor, aka Wete. Not only is he a fantastic type designer, but he is also a really lovely person. Not going to tell you much more about him or the interview. Just as much, it really makes me…

Good morning, everyone! Our newest guest on the Flexible Visual Systems blog doesn’t need an introduction: Slanted co-founder and editor-in-chief Julia Kahl. I had the pleasure of interviewing her about the love and pain that go into publishing books. The interview is stuffed with very valuable insider knowledge, so if you ever thought about publishing…

Hi everyone! I interviewed Sara again! Be prepared for a long interview stuffed with beautiful illustrations and lots of nuggets of wisdom: https://flexiblevisualsystems.info/resources/interviewsara-2/ When I am using the word illustration, I am not using it in the “nice visual to make the text look a bit more entertaining” sense. Sara is illustrating (throwing a light…

Hey! A new lesson of the Temporal Intelligence course is out. This time we are travelling to Cyprus and are having fun with the flexible visual system of a 4000 year old jug with two necks! If you haven’t done the first two lessons yet, I recommend visiting them first. Start at the beginning of…

ENGLISH: Hi everybody, It has been a while since Ricardo and I last had a public conversation, and with how fast design technology is evolving, we had a lot of ground to cover. Following the highly successful workshop and foundational course he recently taught for the School of Systems, I sat down with him to…

Dear Patrons! A new course is in the making! Here is an exclusive pre-release of the first two lessons for all patrons with a student tier: Temporal Intelligence Intro: https://flexiblevisualsystems.info/courses/ti-intro/Lesson 1: https://flexiblevisualsystems.info/courses/ti-intro/ti-1/ I am having so much fun working on this course. It’s like travelling in time and space. I hope you can sense that…

Good Morning dear FVS Designers, the way I explain the different types of flexible systems for visual identities might have changed forever. If you read the book Flexible Visual Systems, you are familiar with the model of the two different types of identity systems: Identification through form and Identification through transformation. This model did not…