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is a platform for parametric design in graphic design. It documents the work of students and teachers at the Department of Design at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), who are investigating the significance of the system as a conceptual model and design method under the title “Parametric Design in Graphic Design.”

Design is less about intuitive, even ingenious “strokes of genius” and more about a holistic and rule-based (systemic and systematic) process of gaining knowledge and shaping form. It is becoming increasingly important to be able to design dynamic systems that both guide and inspire the design process.

Parametric design refers to this design in and of systems—with rules, their modes of operation, and systematic manipulability. The research project, led by Prof. Heike Grebin, is an integral part of teaching and aims to raise awareness of design as a performative process.

Play the System brings together selected study projects in which the system plays an important role as a design method – whether analog or digital. The works are created in a fruitful symbiosis of theory, design, and technology. Socially relevant issues and positions from philosophy, art, and avant-garde design from around 1900 to the present day are repeatedly discussed.

Play the System is an invitation to become aware of the systemic competence of graphic design and to gain the maturity to use the tools of digital design critically.

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p318 Silent Phases

Author

Marie Nordhoff

Course

Hope You Like It!

Design Disciplines

[Creative Coding] [Typography]

Mediums

[Hybrid] [Moving Poster]

Technologies

[HTML] [CSS]

Subjects

[Design Methods]

“The task is to find a set of solutions that are the best under certain conditions. These solutions go through various phases of transformation, each phase opening up new possibilities.” — Karl Gestner 1

The work focuses on experimenting with basic geometric orders that undergo different phases. Rotation, translation, and superposition follow fixed rules. Rotation, translation, and superposition follow fixed rules. By deliberately disrupting these rules, analog and digital posters are created, augmented by animations in HTML & CSS. Moments take shape between irritation and structure – noise and silence.

  1. Gerstner, Karl. Tangentielles Exzentrum 1956/57. Zürich: ABC Verlag, 1957. ↩