A publication for the London College of Communication exhibition ‘Our Algorithmic Lives’ documenting the college wide projects and programme of events.
As a means of visually exploring algorithms within print media, looked to variable digital print enabling each cover to be unique.
Existing print software didn’t encapsulate the idea of algorithmically generated artwork, leading me to explore the potential for coding algorithms using Processing.
This project then led to discussions with the digital press manufacturer HP Indigo, who created HP Spark as a way of formalising these innovative processes.
The covers are finished with silver ink dots in a grid, which when held under a UV light have vertical and horizontal lines running between them reminding us that algorithms impact our lives in ways both seen and unseen.
The tall format of the magazine is reminiscent of vertically mounted screens often used by developers, with indented paragraphs alluding to the formatting of source code.