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Rune Madsen

@runemadsen.com

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I explore code as a design material. Co-founder of @designsystems.international. Author of programmingdesignsystems.com. Former New York Times, O’Reilly Media and ITP NYU.

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Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 30/12/2024

I am writing an essay on why rigid planning is bad for designers, and I stumbled on this excellent book. It’s interesting to see how an initial observation from computer science became a much more significant idea related to the humanities too.

A photo of the book “Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned - The Myth of the Objective” by Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman.

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Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 28/12/2024

Excited to dive into this during the holidays

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Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 26/11/2024

I inherited this mechanic calculator from my grandfather. Even though it only does addition, I’m quite surprised by how useful it is even today.

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Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 25/11/2024

Early prototyping for a website that uses tiny SVG images with object outlines and image descriptions as a more accessible image placeholder. Generated automatically with Meta's SAML2.

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Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 19/11/2024

Oh, fun! I just removed an unused library and pushed to the repo in case you want the source code. It's pretty readable: github.com/runemadsen/S.... I like the span of time between commits 🙂

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Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 19/11/2024

15 years ago, I wrote my first Processing sketch in a Data Visualization class taught by @stewartsmith.bsky.social at ITP, NYU. I just cloned down the repo and ran it, and it works right out of the box in Processing 4!

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Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 18/11/2024

We just created a Bluesky account for @designsystems.international! It doesn't have much yet, but it'll be a good place to stay up to date with our work.

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Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 17/11/2024

Same story for this one. Flowerpot was designed in the late 60's by Verner Panton. Marianne Brandt designed her lamp during the Bauhaus in the 20's.

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Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 17/11/2024

On the left is a Danish design icon: Arne Jacobsen’s coffee pot from 1967. On the right is Marianne Brandt’s coffee pot designed 43 years earlier right before she became head of the Bauhaus metal workshop. Everything is a remix.

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