article thumbnail

Art Made of Code: monopo london on the design of Matt DesLauriers' debut book

Creative Boom

Who says writing code can't be creative? Generative artist Matt DesLauriers weaves together art, programming and technology to build playful, creative projects for public installations, print media, and the web. A JavaScript program which runs the code constructs stratified landforms using thousands of small strokes of colour.

Coding 458
article thumbnail

Which open-source monospaced font is best for coding?

UX Collective

An analysis of 5 monospaced fonts with coding ligatures Which font do you use for coding? That’s when I wrote the original blog post about 5 monospaced fonts with coding ligatures. Many more monospaced fonts with coding ligatures have sprung up since that blog post so it’s time to revisit and examine five more.

Coding 97
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Processing: the Software that Shaped Creative Coding

Eye on Design

Part II will publish next week. This relationship dates back to the 1960s, when computational pioneers used code to create novel forms. Since then, programming’s grip on designers has only tightened, even as it’s been obscured by the user-friendly interfaces of modern creativity software. Processing was more than a tool, though.

Coding 135
article thumbnail

UX in the low-code era

UX Collective

As a UX specialist working in the industry for a few years, I see enormous possibilities emerging from the ‘low-code’ movement. First things first, what’s low code, and how does it connect with different kinds of designers? code and Low code (NC/LC)?—?my Low-Code is a new kind of prototyping tool.

Coding 74
article thumbnail

10+ Best Desktop Publishing Software (2023)

Just Creative

Discover the best desktop publishing software in 2023. Desktop publishing software is used to create visual communications, such as brochures, business cards, greeting cards, posters, web pages for professional or personal printing online or on-screen. Affinity Publisher Affinity Publisher. Limited PDF editing options.

article thumbnail

Margaret Flatley on creating narrative stories, how to draw dynamic compositions, and why she's lured to the fantastical

Creative Boom

It took me only three Computer Science classes to realise I loathed coding. The Communication Design (Comm Des) program at Washington University in St. The program taught me what it takes to be a professional designer, illustrator, and creative, but more importantly, it opened the door to what was possible.

article thumbnail

Building software for artists

UX Collective

One way that my group studies expressive power is by learning from and working with domain experts, such as visual artists, to make programming systems and software tools for art. There’s important, interdisciplinary work to be done to create more ways for creative practitioners to use code on their own terms in their workflows.

Artist 90