Shape Grammars Libru by Jannis Maroscheck

Shape Grammars Libru by Jannis Maroscheck is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award d'Oru in Generativu Competition Category.

OruGenerativu· 2022

Shape Grammars Libru

by Jannis Maroscheck

Client: Jannis Maroscheck

A' Design Award d'Oru Winner in Generativu Category

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The Design

About Shape Grammars Libru

Shape Grammars hè un manuale di u designer nantu à e forme generative. U libru esplora cumu pezzi unichi ponu esse pruduciuti in massa. Dodici sistemi di produzzione sò stati cuncepiti è prugrammati per generà un numeru illimitatu di forme grafiche individuali. U catalogu à cuperta morbida cuntene 836 pagine è presenta 150.000 forme generate, urdinate da e strettamente geumetriche à quelle urganicamente libere. Sia u cuntenutu chè a messa in pagina sò stati pruduciuti cù un software generativu persunalizatu. Shape Grammars mostra certi putenziali è limitazioni di u design generativu è serve da fonte d'ispirazione nantu à u scrittoghju.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Oru

Shape Grammars Libru hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Oru, una ricunniscenza immensamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni di prima categuria, maravigliosi è straordinarii. I vincitori d'Oru sò creazioni estremamente innuvatrici, assai visiunarie è lucentemente abbagliante chì riflettenu u geniu, a saviezza è l'abilità di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Shape Grammars Libru sia una invenzione assai elogiata, pionera di tendenze è monumentale, chì furnisce un valore senza precedente. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Oru hè un prughjettu spettaculare è rispettatu chì benefizia assai è allarga i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. Shape Grammars Libru crea sentimenti intensi di disideriu, evoca passione, incuraghjisce a creatività è ci affascina.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Shape Grammars is a study on generative shapes, asking: how can unique pieces be mass produced? 12 production systems that can generate an unlimited number of individual graphic shapes were designed and programmed. The result is a designer's handbook which, in addition to 150,000 generated shapes, shows some potentials and limitations of generative design.
Dimensions & Packaging: Soft-bound catalogue, digital print. 836 pages. 185x235x45mm
Tags: generative, shapes, book, massproduction, graphic production, shape collection, dictionary of shapes
Production Technology: The content as well as the book layout was produced with custom generative software.
Design Challenge: The main challenge was to create very simple rulesets, which are able to generate a high variety of shapes. Simple means, their logic can be expressed in a sentence, that is easily understood. Simple also means they make use of a core geometrical principle. Detailed decorations were not allowed.
Research: Graphic shapes and systems were collected, categorized and reverse-engineered. A broad range of geometrical principles for shape generation were translated into machine readable code.
Furthermore layout and sorting programs were developed.
Inspiration: Noam Chomsky has tried to formalize all sorts of languages that obey some rules. With Shape Grammars I have made a similar attempt for graphical systems. Of course, this could never be completed, but at least I wanted to try to cover as large a spectrum of geometric principles as I could.
Project Duration: The development of the book started in Wuerzburg in October 2019, was completed in Tokyo, and published by slanted publishers, Karlsruhe in July 2020
Operation Flow: The 836 page book is meant as a tool. The format is balanced between having enough space to show the shapes and being handy enough to be used during work at the desk. The weight and thickness of the book is a result of and communicates the sheer endless collection of shapes, that can be discovered, and used as a source of inspiration.
Team Members: Jannis Maroscheck
Image Credits: all images by Jannis Maroscheck