To create my 100 book cover designs I decided to use the processing code that we were shown in the studio but to tweak it into my own design parameters.
I began by changing the RGB code ranges for both the background and grid of circles shades so they were a specific range of shades and colours as I thought this would work well with conflicting colours creating chaos whilst also maintaining a theme throughout. My inspiration was contrasting colours of blue backgrounds and yellow circles so I used Photoshop to see what RGB range would work for this.
Once I had created this original PDF I then decided I wanted two grids of circles in the same positions. This would create organised chaos in my design style as based on the randomised sizing of the circles, sometimes both would be visible and then other times only one was visible to the viewer.
When I achieved this design style with my code I then worked on adding the reference numbers code into the script so that each page was numbered. I decided to use the Pangram Pangram typeface Monument Extended as I thought this clean san serif font would work well.
Now that I added the reference numbers onto each page I altered the code to create the designs as separate PDF files named “Cover_+page number” as they were previously being exported from processing as a hundred page PDF file.
To push this work further I began changing my code so that it also exported the one hundred designs as a looping GIF which showed off each of the designs.
I really like how this work came out as it is a nice style of book cover design that is clearly labeled from one to one hundred that creates chaos whilst maintaining a solid theme.
Here is how my code was during the different stages:
Creating the 100 covers:
Creating the GIF:
