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The act of reading is simple and sometimes boring. You start at the top left corner and finish at the bottom right corner. The goal of this project is to change the act of reading. In doing so we keep the reader focused and aware of what he is doing.

The automated design works with the typographical layout content. Out of the manual word categorization eight arrays are sorted after the word importance. The automated scripting changes the words in the single arrays after the defined objectstyles. Through this the most important word groups stay readable and the less important word groups get less readable.

Our designs visualize the text, Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff, alphabetically with rectangles of varying length. The length of each rectangle or bar is determined by the amount of times a letter or character appears on the page. Our goal was to use JavaScript to deconstruct the meaning of text completely, and reorganize and restructure the way it is read.

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Our goal was to relate our experiments to the given text (Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff), for example, when you take a program as it is you find yourself in a grid with certain limitations; however when you learn to control the program you allow yourself to stray from the grid, break free from it.

Curating photography with neural networks.

A text – image correlation between an article by Bernhard London from 1932 and according product pictures from amazon.com.

Twelve per cent of all imported goods in Switzerland are coming through the seaport of Basel. The piece «flow of goods / data stream» gives an overview over all goods and streams in the year of 2012.

The goal of this code was to enlarge the most used words and then the least used words in a document. The code was applied to three different kinds of texts – a persuasive essay, a science fiction movie script, and an instructional guide.

Results of the foundational introduction course into Generative Design with basil.js at the Visual Communication Institute in Basel by Martin Fuchs and Ludwig Zeller.

Ornamental generators by using pre-designed Vector shapes from within Adobe InDesign and repeat them through code in a 2D matrix.

Text visualizations that highlight the narrative intensity for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by simple algorithmic rules.

Reedition of the science fiction classic book “The Martian Chronicles”, written by Ray Bradbury in 1950.

The project visually emphasizes the role of scripting by comparing it with natural light situation. By applying either light or scripting on a page, it simply creates new images on the page and can be completely converted into something new.

This is a data visualization of the 14-days weather forecasts from 28 cities around the world.

A connection between 5522 people all across the world that have been active on Twitter within the timeframe of one second.