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From workshop to algorithm
How craft changes when the tool starts proposing form.
About this collection
Craft is defined by a relationship with the resistance of material. This route follows what happens to that definition when resistance stops being physical: a file, too, has bit depth, compression, and an order of operations.
Craft and its definition
- From craft to digital craft — where mastery begins — mastery as knowledge of constraints and repeatability of result.
- Arts and Crafts — craft, labour, and everyday beauty.
- History of Design — the long line from hand labour to digital systems.
The tool as material
- Adobe Photoshop — Layer, Mask and the Culture of the Editable Image — layer, mask, and the editable image.
- Photoshop: the history of an image no longer trusted — reversibility as a new professional norm.
- Desktop Publishing — How the Computer Changed the Magazine — how the computer rewrote editorial production.
When the tool proposes form
- Generative Design — Form Through Constraints and Variants — form through constraints and the generation of variants.
- Who authors the image in the age of generative AI — authorship as a distributed system of decisions.
- CGI — Anatomy of the Digital Scene — the anatomy of the digital scene.
- Why technology changes not speed, but the shape of imagination — a tool expands not speed but the thinkable.