With many examples from the worlds of graphic and product design, music, architecture and art, Designing Programmes inspires the reader to seize on the material, develop it further, and integrate it into his or her own work. Today the book is especially topical in the context of current developments in computational design. Gerstner’s innovation was to propose a rule set or system defined by the designer that would determine all aesthetic decisions for a given product: for example, a logo might also function as a layout grid system or inspire a font. One of his most important works is Designing Programmes, which is presented here in a new. Here, across four essays, Gerstner provides a basic introduction to his design methodology and suggests a model for design in the early days of the computer era. : Karl Gerstner: Designing Programmes: Programme as Typeface, Typography, Picture, Method (9783037785782) by Gerstner, Karl and a great. Karl Gerstner s work is a milestone in the history of design. It was successful in the U.S. Templates were executed by Christian Mengelt. 16 versions of the programme were generated, 8 regular and 8 italic, using the Sinar camera under the expert direction of GGK staff member Werner Richli. Now, Lars Müller reissues the book with its original design. Gerstner Programm was designed by Karl Gerstner between 1964-67 and first published in Bertholds Diatype filmsetting format. It was first published in 1964, and reissued in a new design by Lars Müller Publishers in 2007 both editions are now rare (the first almost completely unavailable). The book is especially topical and exciting in the context of current developments in computational design.

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