Just being Goofy
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Nerding out Hard
The story behind the "Transmissions" tee:
When designing for Times New Robot, we were heavily infuenced by vintage computer animations from the 60's and 70's. We loved how designs were created by writing formulas and numerical sequences, with no preview of the end result. Basically, it was punching codes into a computer and then letting the computer render those codes into visual form. In a way, the computer was a creative entity in itself.
With the graphic for Transmissions, I attempted to recreate this same process. I was using photoshop to create textures for some printed collateral by filling the artboard with color and then using filters to create inconsistencies and depth. I noticed that when using different filters, the program would add and subtract pixels at random intervals depending on the level of filter applied. This gave me an idea that would allow the computer to independently create a pattern based on the input I gave it.
I started by filling a 20"x20" artboard with the color gray. I then used a filter which seperates the all the gray pixels into even amount of white and black pixels, thinking that it would create what would end up looking like a checkerboard. After i applied the filter, the artboard still appeared gray to the naked eye, but when i zoomed into a 1"x1" portion of the artboard i saw what looked like a giant maze. Instead of creating a checkerboard, for some reason the computer had randomly created an amazingly detailed pattern that never repeated. When i changed the shade of gray darker or lighter, it created equally intricate but completely different patterns. I captured a small area of one of these patterns, and that became the base of the graphic for Transmissions.
I love the fact that there was absolutely no "human" element involved with the creation of this pattern. We saw it as a transmission from the creative being somewhere inside the depths of the machine. Hence, we called this design "Transmissions".
When designing for Times New Robot, we were heavily infuenced by vintage computer animations from the 60's and 70's. We loved how designs were created by writing formulas and numerical sequences, with no preview of the end result. Basically, it was punching codes into a computer and then letting the computer render those codes into visual form. In a way, the computer was a creative entity in itself.
With the graphic for Transmissions, I attempted to recreate this same process. I was using photoshop to create textures for some printed collateral by filling the artboard with color and then using filters to create inconsistencies and depth. I noticed that when using different filters, the program would add and subtract pixels at random intervals depending on the level of filter applied. This gave me an idea that would allow the computer to independently create a pattern based on the input I gave it.
I started by filling a 20"x20" artboard with the color gray. I then used a filter which seperates the all the gray pixels into even amount of white and black pixels, thinking that it would create what would end up looking like a checkerboard. After i applied the filter, the artboard still appeared gray to the naked eye, but when i zoomed into a 1"x1" portion of the artboard i saw what looked like a giant maze. Instead of creating a checkerboard, for some reason the computer had randomly created an amazingly detailed pattern that never repeated. When i changed the shade of gray darker or lighter, it created equally intricate but completely different patterns. I captured a small area of one of these patterns, and that became the base of the graphic for Transmissions.
I love the fact that there was absolutely no "human" element involved with the creation of this pattern. We saw it as a transmission from the creative being somewhere inside the depths of the machine. Hence, we called this design "Transmissions".
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