Programming Design

Design and programming are often viewed as separate, distinct and even opposed disciplines. The talk traces the history of why these disciplines and their practitioners have been viewed in these certain ways.

Having looked to the past for some insight it then looks to tell some different stories about visual designers and their relationship to code.

Transcript

1. Code & Visual Design @edwardoriordan
2. The Tower of Babel - Pieter Bruegel the Elder
3. Moody, erratic, eccentric, and arrogant? Perhaps — but you can't just get rid of them. Harvard Business Review - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
4. The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - Caspar David Friedrich
5. “There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Boscombe Valley Mystery
6. Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld - Corot
7. Pygmalion and Galatea - Laurent Pécheux
8. And carv'd in iv'ry such a maid, so fair, As Nature could not with his art compare Ovid - Metamorphoses X
9. The SpinnersThe SpinnersThe SpinnersThe Fable of Arachne/The Spinners - Velázquez
10. One at the loom so excellently skill'd, That to the Goddess she refus'd to yield. Low was her birth, and small her native town, She from her art alone obtain'd renown Ovid - Metamorphoses VI
11. Prometheus - Otto Greiner
12. Thou art a symbol and a sign To Mortals of their fate and force; Like thee, Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source Prometheus - Lord Byron
13. Orpheus - Roman mosaic
14. Persephone he seeks, and him who reigns O'er ghosts, and Hell's uncomfortable plains. Arriv'd, he, tuning to his voice his strings, Thus to the king and queen of shadows sings. Ovid - Metamorphoses X
15. Sistine Chapel - North and East Walls
16. “If no one took any risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.” Neil Simon
17. Play | Joan Miro - Femme Se Poudrant
18. “rules need to be set before starting so the work has a more focused direction to travel...These limitations are the fuel for improvisation, becoming the barriers that hold the sand in the sandbox so that we can play.” Frank Chimero - The shape of design
19. Atley G. Kasky
20. Atley G. Kasky
21. Olivetti - Anna Monika Jost
22. Matthew Epler
23. “invention...could not possibly have been achieved by anyone lacking the ability to improvise and the patience to play with a specific material: to see the myriad possibilities and discover the ideal form.” Paul Rand - Design and the Play Instinct
24. Personal | MIT Meida Lab
25. MIT Media Lab Identity
26. F-sharp, A-sharp, Infinity Packaging - GSYBE
27. Possibilities | Paul Klee - Dream City
28. The Seal of Solomon - Joshua Davis
29. Viola Helleborus - Joshua Davis
30. Meru - Andy Gilmore
31. Meru detail - Andy Gilmore
32. “Sometimes the results of graceful rethinking can be thought of as magic, because it produces something we previously thought to be impossible. It subverts the established ways of working… Laid bare in his work is an example of how craft and art grow, how they serve as an example of a new possibility” Frank Chimero - The shape of design
33. Thanks - —
34. Drupal Dev Days Dublin