Shape Grammars Buku by Jannis Maroscheck

Ameh Generatif · 2022

Shape Grammars Buku

by Jannis Maroscheck

A' Design Award Ameh 2022 in Generatif
CLIENT: Jannis Maroscheck
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About Shape Grammars Buku

Shape Grammars adolah buku pegangan untuak desainer tantang bantuak-bantuak generatif. Buku ko manjalajahi baa caronyo karya-karya nan unik dapek diproduksi sacaro massal. Duo baleh sistem produksi dirancang jo diprogram untuak mahasilkan jumlah bantuak grafis individual nan indak tabateh. Katalog basampul lunak ko punyo 836 halaman jo manampilkan 150.000 bantuak nan dihasilkan, disusun dari nan sangaik geometris sampai ka nan bebas sacaro organik. Baiak isi maupun tata letaknyo diproduksi jo parangkek lunak generatif khusus. Shape Grammars manunjuakan babarapo potensi jo katabatasan desain generatif sarato manjadi sumber inspirasi di meja karajo.

About the A' Design Award Ameh

Shape Grammars Buku adolah pamenang A' Design Award Ameh, sabuah pangakuan nan sangaik bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan kelas partamo, mangaguikan jo cumelang. Pamenang Ameh adolah ciptaan nan sangaik inovatif, bapandangan jauah jo baka-kilauan mamikaik nan mancaminkan bakaik, kabijaksanaan jo kahebatan parancangnyo. Shape Grammars Buku dipaokan manjadi panemuan nan sangaik dipuji, panetap kacenderungan jo monumental nan mambari nilai nan alun pernah ado. Rancangan nan manang Ameh iko adolah proyek nan mangaguikan jo dihargai nan maluaskan batas seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi. Shape Grammars Buku malahiakan karinduan nan kuek, mambangkikkan gairah, mandorong kreativitas jo mamikaik kito.

Press Kit

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.
Image Credits: all images by Jannis Maroscheck