Computational Design
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22. Computational Design
1 year ago
Interview & edit by Mark Webster
Camera by Juan Estupinan
Production by Pyramyd NTCV 2010
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postspectacular.com/
Karsten Schmidt (aka toxi) is a computational designer merging code, design, art & craft skills. Starting in the deep end of the early 8-bit demo scene, for the past 2 decades he's been adopting a trans-disciplinary way of working and been laterally involved in a wide range of digital disciplines. With his studio PostSpectacular, he is actively exploring current possibilities at the intersection of design, art, software development and education and applying these in a variety of fields. A strong conceptual thinker and always striving for maximum creative freedom, Karsten’s design approach is based on treating ideas as software at the heart, which in turn informs all other facets of each project.
Camera by Juan Estupinan
Production by Pyramyd NTCV 2010
etapes.com
postspectacular.com/
Karsten Schmidt (aka toxi) is a computational designer merging code, design, art & craft skills. Starting in the deep end of the early 8-bit demo scene, for the past 2 decades he's been adopting a trans-disciplinary way of working and been laterally involved in a wide range of digital disciplines. With his studio PostSpectacular, he is actively exploring current possibilities at the intersection of design, art, software development and education and applying these in a variety of fields. A strong conceptual thinker and always striving for maximum creative freedom, Karsten’s design approach is based on treating ideas as software at the heart, which in turn informs all other facets of each project.
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Most designers that have some proficiency in some programming language(s) live with the self-esteem that they're doing complex stuff, but they don't realize that this complexity is purely visual - implementation wise it is rarely a complex system no matter how complex math equations they have to use.
I believe designers should really try to improve their abilities by covering more and more from the space of design - starting from styling details and gradually getting towards the philosophy of design and reaching the core concepts and problems of design in general.
Focusing on programming to me seems like a total waste of time for designers - it is strange how in IT designers try to do production implementation - there is no other mature product industry where designers attempt at such endeavors.