Analog Algorithm
This book is a tool kit for designers and architects to create new forms. Focusing on grid-based design, it gives the reader techniques to develop new fonts, logos, patterns and other forms. Grünberger showcases a design process in which individual decisions follow much larger and deeper principles than immediate and spontaneous-intuitive actions.
Using a wide variety of examples, each chapter contains a detailed description of the procedure from form analysis to setting up design rules and their application. Both a workbook and a source of inspiration, this publication provides designers and architects with the tool they need to find analytical forms—analog, algorithm-based, exploratory but never of arbitrary origin.
The procedures described allow an almost infinite number of possibilities. The designer is thus transformed from inventor to interpreter or curator, who assesses individual forms on the fly and ensures that the design process is always efficient and goal-oriented.
This book is a tool kit for designers and architects to create new forms. Focusing on grid-based design, it gives the reader techniques to develop new fonts, logos, patterns and other forms. Grünberger showcases a design process in which individual decisions follow much larger and deeper principles than immediate and spontaneous-intuitive actions.
Using a wide variety of examples, each chapter contains a detailed description of the procedure from form analysis to setting up design rules and their application. Both a workbook and a source of inspiration, this publication provides designers and architects with the tool they need to find analytical forms—analog, algorithm-based, exploratory but never of arbitrary origin.
The procedures described allow an almost infinite number of possibilities. The designer is thus transformed from inventor to interpreter or curator, who assesses individual forms on the fly and ensures that the design process is always efficient and goal-oriented.
“A rare kind of book. It touches on something so integral to contemporary design—grids—in a way that evades nearly every precedent.”
– TYPE Magazine
"Exacting in its delivery and restraints, yet courageous in its scope and explorations, Analog Algorithm manages to be both clinical and playful."
– Type365
«Der Titel klingt trocken, doch es ist ein berückend schönes Buch, das Christoph Grünberger da vorlegt.»
– PAGE
