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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…

Dear Flexible System Designers,  I was asked by the German design magazine PAGE to write an article about A.I. Being critical of A.I. in the midst of an A.I. hype can be scary, but to my surprise, the response was very positive. Maybe because my intention was not to bash A.I., but to draw awareness…

Dear Flexible System Designers,  Many of you are aware that I am friends with Processing wizard Tim Rodenbröker. From the beginning of our friendship, we were talking about how we could bring our teachings about Creative Coding and Flexible System Design together. We had and had so many ideas. Now one of them is finally…

Hey! I realized that the FVS curriculum needs a foundation course, explaining the essentials of the FVS theory. One of the most important lessons is certainly the FVS model which explains the two different types of FVS. Even if you already read about it, have a look: https://flexiblevisualsystems.info/courses/foundation/thefvsmodel/ Which other lessons should be taught in…

Dear Flexible Visual System Designers, Before I start writing this newsletter I want to share with you how happy I am that people became more active on Discord. This is so important for all of us!  I finally found some time to write again. If you have seen one of my last lectures in Manchester,…

Dear Flexible System Designer, I have made BIG UPDATES on www.flexiblevisualsystems.info! Every lesson has now a table of contents on the bottom, making it easier for you to jump in between lessons and not just to the next lesson. It also gives you an overview of how many lessons you did and how many are…

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