Blob – Chevalvert

Designing a living, generative visual system, with physical randomness as an input.

Through questions of procedure, condition and emergence, Chevalvert provided us during a workshop with simple and playable methods for designing evolving visual systems, suitable for use within a design process.

Borrowing from the culture of code for its logic and playability, and from biology for the notions of inheritance, emergence and genetics, the aim was to think of a graphic system as a landscape, a map, a living organism. The aim was not to learn how to code, but to reflect on the question of visual systems and algorithms, and to bring this research to bear on the production of a visual identity (in the form of a poster and video).