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PostSpectacular has designed a system for creating one of a kind covers for Faber Finds, Faber’s print-on-demand service. The generative design system is built using PHP, Java, and Processing.

The gorgeous font used on the covers is B-HMMND, designed by Corey Holms.

More images can be found here.

(via MoT)

Generating a single cover only takes about 1 second, but due to its iterative and semi-random nature can sometime require hundreds of attempts until a “valid” design is created which is judged to be “on brand” by software itself.


Alph Project

Speaking of Processing, one of it’s key advantages is that the resulting Java applets can be embedded in a web page… Perhaps Shoes could be hooked up to the Alph project, which aims to create a Ruby/Flash bridge. Though I’m not totally sure that the Alph project is still active, since the wiki is soaked in spam.