Visually inspired by letterpress printing, I set out to recreate something similar but digitally which evolved into building a custom JavaScript application and website, for generating images like these.

The tool includes functionality to manipulate each shape individually and can flex to manipulate shapes at large scales as well.

Technically, it’s built in p5.js and supports saving JSON files and SVGs, as well as uploading and storing variations in an online database created to archive and organize things worth keeping.

It’s now an ongoing, likely indefinite, work in progress, part design exploration, part coding practice, part creative tool building, and part AI collaboration.

As I’ve shifted from building the tool to actively using it to create images, new possibilities keep emerging, which inevitably feed back into expanding the tool itself.

If you’d like to spend some time with it, check it out for yourself.