Flexible Visual Systems: Modular type course

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Today I finally signed up to Marten Lorenz from Flexible Visual Systems who has an online learning platform via Patreon. The reason for this is that I feel it will benefit me greatly in my research and development journey, especially within my MA. As I am currently working through learning about systems within typography through the lens of calligraphic writing, I feel this next move as part of my journey will help further my knowledge and hopefully give me further insights into typography from a systematic approach. https://flexiblevisualsystems.info/courses/modular-type/


Screenshot showing FVS online course 

One thing that I am excited to learn about is how I can transform my current iterations and development within both Hebrew and Latin letterforms into modular typography. Shapes have always fascinated me and have been an ongoing obsession of mine since a young age. It may be part of the reason why I love typography so much and letterforms, this is because I typefaces and letterforms are made from shapes which ironically feeds nicely into my research area which I have been exploring. 

This quote that I discovered from Marten Lorenz via his Patreon page resonated with me.

"Systematic creativity makes your work more efficient and effective, without taking away any of your creative freedom. On the contrary, it will boost your creativity" (Lorenz,2023).

I feel this refers to my current working practice and what I have been looking into and wanting to explore next. A systematic approach for me is all about creating a sense of structure within your work, whilst leaving room for exploration. Within design, systems can play a major part in how we articulate our methodology and outputs within what we are trying to design and communicate to our audience. 

As well as working through Lorenz Modular type course, I also signed up for Systematic Creativity, an Oxymoron? The Morphological Box and How You Can Use it to Stimulate your Creativity. 

I found this to be again rather rewarding as the information that Lorenz provides is very insightful and thought-provoking to understand how systems work within creativity and design. 

"System design can be very flexible" (Lorenz,2023).


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