Flexible Visual Systems sums up 10 years of research at the University of Barcelona, 20 years of systems development at TwoPoints.Net and 18 years of teaching systems at more than 10 design universities in Europe. Flexible Visual Systems is THE textbook for designing contemporary visual identities. It teaches us the variety of approaches on how to design flexible systems, adaptable to any aesthetic or project that requires an identifiable visual language. Learning to design flexible systems is not just learning another craft, it is changing your entire way of thinking and working. It is an approach, a way of designing. If you had to put systems design in a curriculum, this would be the core course, which would put you in the right mindset. You can apply the systems approach to any discipline you specialize in later, whether it is corporate design, communication design, user experience design or textile design.
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\nThe book is divided into three parts. The first part is a richly illustrated theoretical introduction (82 pages) that explains the past, present and future of flexible systems. The second part is a practical, almost purely visual description of how to design flexible systems on the form, starting with a circle, a triangle, a square, a pentagon and a hexagon. The third part explains how transformation processes can become flexible systems for visual identities.
