Graphic Design with Creative Coding

This paper describes an approach to teaching creative coding to design students. It may respond to a situation where ‘apprehension of automation replacement’ from artificial intelligence and machine learning regarding graphic design production may affect students. As such, this paper also intends to evoke the importance of diversity in problem-solving and methods. This text started with a literature review regarding strategies for creative coding in design tertiary education. A detailed methodology of using abstract art as a principle to apply bidimensional logic in creating coding is presented. The method was applied during two semesters in a design course of 120 hours consisting of laboratory tutorials and project development. Finally, two significant projects where logic and coding tutorial learning resulted in graphic design products were selected to discuss the method. This work contributes to the topic by providing further data supporting creative coding methods in visual design education while demonstrating the graphic potential of such an approach.