Shape Grammars — Book
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Award-Winning Book
This design features Light Gray, Gainsboro, Silver, Dark Gray, Gray, White Smoke, Dim Gray, and Black.
About the Award-Winning Book Design: Shape Grammars is a study on generative shapes, asking: how can unique pieces be mass produced? Jannis Maroscheck designed and programmed 12 production systems that draw an unlimited number of individual graphic shapes. The result is a systematic catalog, a kind of dictionary of shapes, for browsing forms and their formulas. Accumulating 150.000 shapes, sorted from the strictly geometric to the organically free, the book is a useful manual for Designers, Architects and everybody working with shapes, showing the nature of infinite graphic variation through automated design.
This palette has a harmonious temperature, offering versatility in various contexts.
View at A' Design AwardShape Grammars, where these colors originate, was designed by Jannis Maroscheck.
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Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
Relative luminance defines the perceived brightness of a color. Values range from 0 (pure black) to 1 (pure white). This metric is essential for calculating WCAG contrast ratios.
This palette was extracted from Jannis Maroscheck's celebrated design "Shape Grammars".
Jannis Maroscheck is an award-winning creative director honored by the A' Design Award. Their portfolio demonstrates expertise in design and visual communication.
Jannis Maroscheck is a German designer. He studied at the Faculty of Design Wuerzburg and the Tokyo University of the Arts. Working as an independent designer and consultant in the culture, technology and finance industry, he designs print, digital and spatial products. His research practice deals with automation processes in graphic design, form- and image synthesis. The publication Shape Grammars is sold worldwide.
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Shape Grammars has been recognized with the Golden A' Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design Award in 2022. The A' Design Award is an internationally acknowledged design competition that recognizes outstanding creative accomplishment. Laureates are chosen through comprehensive judging by industry experts representing multiple disciplines. The Golden status reflects high caliber design work as determined by the international jury.
Celebrate the cutting-edge intersection of design and technology with entries that exemplify generative, algorithmic, parametric, and AI-assisted creativity. The generative award category highlights the synthesis of aesthetics and computational design techniques, showcasing innovation that redefines form, function, and user experience.
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