An aerial perspective on Generative Design

Computation is made by us, and we are now collectively responsible for its outcomes. John Maeda / How to speak […]

Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that my course Typemachines is finally recorded completely and ready to […]

Dear community, i think this is a great moment to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for […]

Some of you have asked for it, so here it is: A raw and uncut tutorial in which I explain […]

This is a recording of my presentation at the TAAALKS conference. The yearly event covers the intersection of design and […]

I am very happy to be able to publish my new course “Bauhaus Coding Workshop” today! This course is a […]

We live in an unbelievable time: never before have there been so many innovations in such a short period of […]

The Magic Triangle is a powerful creativity technique that can be applied to many different areas.

A 5-day remote-workshop at écal

I have been interviewed by Franco Varriano for the awesome Tech+Art-podcast. We spoke about my way into technology, the important […]

My personal journey from a design-student to a creative coder.

In this tutorial I show you how to create abstract 3D portraits from any image file. Here you will learn […]

After more than 7 months of experimentation, planning and creating i am finally abled to release a first Alpha-version of […]

Level: Beginner & intermediate In this tutorial i’ll guide you through all the necessary steps to rasterize an image with […]

A prototype for a browser-based design-application, built with p5.js and vue.js.

A time in space-experience

In the last years i’ve observed a new tendency in typography and graphic design which has been made possible by […]

One of the most powerful features of Processing in comparison to all web-based approaches and frameworks (like p5.js) is the […]

So called “libraries” extend the functionality of the software-development-enviroment Processing. Please handle those extensions with care: If you are a […]

This project was created in summer 2020 during my master studies at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld (study field […]

I passionately collect a special kind of media in a huge dropbox-folder: Resources that are free to use, not copyrighted […]

In this video i share my opinions about the benefits of p5.js and Processing. I also talk about how i’ve […]

Creative Coding in the realms of Graphic Design

Generative visuals made from the “Prelude in C” by Johann Sebastian Bach.

There are several ways to render video from Processing. In this tutorial I’ll show you the easiest way I could […]

For a few weeks now I’ve been in close exchange with Martin Lorenz from TwoPoints.net, a Hamburg-based studio focusing on […]

I’ve been commissioned by Holo Magazine to develop a series of type-treatments for the the new Digital Economies Reader on […]

FFMPEG is an extremely powerful tool for converting and editing video material. Not only is it ideal for converting to […]

I have thought a lot about the subject of color during my work as a designer and also during the […]

In this post I would like to share five books that inspired me a lot before and during the conception […]

Dynamic Visual Identity

Both as a student and a teacher i know very well how hard it can be learn a complex technology. […]

Hi and welcome to this very condensed and quick tutorial that aims to get you amazed for Creative Coding in […]

Dear friends, Some of you may have noticed it already: I had an accident on Sunday, 23rd August. My hand […]

In this short tutorial i explain how you can use p5.js with Visual Studio Code. For this purpose, i’ll use […]

A few months ago, Philip Jursch and Dogu Kaya interviewed me for their Master Thesis titled “Constants & Variables” at […]

Cihan Tamti is a close friend, a former student and one of the most extraordinary and talented creatives i have […]

About 6 months ago PAGE magazine published my rasterization-tutorial (for Processing) in the German print-issue. Now the tutorial is available […]

I am always fascinated by the creative energy that shapes the scene around art, design and technology in these special […]

Generative Illustrations

The Julia Stoschek Collection (JSC) is one of the world’s most important and comprehensive private collections of time-based art, dedicated […]

In early 2019 Prof. Lars Harmsen (the publisher of the renowned Slanted Magazine) invited me to give a course on […]

Rasterization is an essential technique for creating a wide range of visuall systems. Furthermore the process of rasterizing contains essential […]

The internet holds incredible treasures of media, free to use for anyone. This short video-essay gives you insights into the […]

»Nur programmierende Gestalter sind den Problemen unserer Zeit gewachsen« 08.01.2020 von Lena Simonis

Here are some impressions from my talk at the Digital Experience Conference of the Art Directors Club on November 21st […]

In greek mythology, Odysseus resisted the tempting voices of the singing sirens through shackling himself on the mast of the […]

This is the first part of a brand new tutorial-series about Waves, a fundamental skill and feature in Generative Design […]

I quite get often asked for advices on how to get started with creative coding. These are my most essential […]

Together with Cihan Tamti, Lars Harmsen (Slanted Magazine) and the students of my class at FH Dortmund, i’ve designed and […]

PAGE, Germany’s magazine for the creative industries featured my project Programming Posters with a 6-page article in the April issue. […]

In this post i’ll teach you how to access the data of an image and how to use it to […]

To me, programming means much more than just writing code. It is a way to create invaluable opportunities, to connect […]

In October 2018 i gave a talk about my approach on teaching at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.

Custom design-software for CCCB Barcelona

An interactive music experience for the web-browser

A community for experimental front-end-development with more than 2000 members

An experimental web-application, displaying news from the New York Times archive

A custom cover-design-software for Tonboutique Records

A research on flexible visual systems

“Creative Coding = Unexplored Territories”: In my talk at TEDx UniPaderborn 2017 i tell my personal story and how i came in touch with Generative Design, what it is and why it is awesome.

Digital, animated 3d-objects based on photographs by Ivana Marija Hope

Key visuals for a Mexico-City based festival.

A computer-generated music video, built for the PSD-Medienfassade

An experimental Javascript-application, displaying the full text of Hermann Hesse’s famous book “Siddhartha”. The algorithm parses the content of the […]

A flexible visual identity for a german record-label

A simple, useless application, generating random words from three syllables and providing a button to search for their meaning at […]

An overview of my github-projects

A research on the creative power of inductive design and thinking