Designing beyond human limits

I’ve been reading “thinking with type” by Ellen Lupton. This morning I started the chapter on the history of the grid in graphic design and it’s really sort of facinating…but i doubt most anyone else would be facinated so instead I’m going to talk about Joshua Davis who was mentioned in a caption.

Joshua Davis who was also featured recently on Mac.com. Click here for more on that. The really cool thing about Joshua Davis besides the fact that he is a Flash god is that he has been revolutionizing design visuals through coding. He’s developed these programs that he can input various limitation into that subsequently create artwork that is seemingly impossible. The levels of detail that can be achieved in a single afternoon is incredible. Spend a few minutes looking at the following examples of Joshuas work and imagine being a traditional designer who has to create, colorize and place each of the elements in this work. He sites in the Mac.com article that once he sent a poster to a printer that had 120,000 layers, thats INSANE! My brain is a twitter with the possible applications of this idea. Had I only the mad coding abilities. alas

I’m impressed. Heres his blog to learn more