Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation

5 stars • Oh what a fascinating book! Maeda is perhaps one of the most influential names in creative coding. For good reason, he created the programming language, Design by Numbers (DBN). And that laid the foundations for our present-day Processing and p5.js. And this book shows more of his visions and insights of art and computation, with specific emphasis on his student work. I loved seeing the absolute variety of projects, so inventive, visionary and creative. I really love the concept of using the computer or even ‘code' as a tool for art. This showcases a lot of artwork from the 1990s to early 2000s. It was quite inspiring. I got many of my own ideas from reading this book. I also wish I was a student at the MIT Media Lab