Stephen Nixon

    4 posts tagged with “drawbot”

  • December 17, 2017

    Getting started in Drawbot, part 3: making a perfect, expandable grid

    Goedemorgen! This is the third post in a small series about using Python in Drawbot, for Parametric design. If you haven’t read the other posts yet, check out part 1 and part 2 . In this post, I’ll be doing a deep-dive into the thought process…

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  • December 16, 2017

    Getting started with parametric design in DrawBot, Part 2

    The following are notes taken from Just van Rossum’s Python class in the KABK Type and Media program, on Sep 20, 2017. If you haven’t yet learned anything about Drawbot, start with part 1 of this series . In these classes, Just does a great job of…

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  • December 10, 2017

    Getting started with parametric design in DrawBot

    As part of Type and Media I am taking classes on Python from Just van Rossum (Just is pronounced like “Yoost”). Just has done a ton to move type design technology forward, such as being one of the three main developers of the UFO font file…

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  • September 14, 2017

    Use Drawbot with GitHub and VS Code

    My TypeMedia class is taking our first forays into Drawbot, a program that allows you to make drawings and animations programmatically with Python. To me, it feels a lot like CodePen for Python. However, there are a few things that Drawbot doesn’t…

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