AI, again

Martin: Good Morning Tim! How are you? I am sorry to bother you with another question about AI. Two years ago, we sat on the Taaalks podcast couch and were quite critical of AI. We are still critical of AI, but we also started using it for a couple of tasks. Did you change your […]

Our talk at Blanc Festival 2025

This year we’ve designed the core of the visual identity of the most charming design festival in Spain, located directly at the ocean side in Vilanova. At the first day of the festival, we opened the series of talks with a comprehensive presentation of our story, our approach and the identity project. The talk is […]

Blanc2025

Unfinished by Design The visual identity for Blanc! 2025 is not finished on purpose—it is a system designed to remain open, responsive, and in progress. The slogan “Unfinished by design” is both a conceptual position and a structural principle. It reflects a clear stance: in a fast-moving world, a finished identity is already obsolete. We […]

CS as a Movement

Martin: What if Coding Systems would become a movement? Who would be part of it and what would be our objective? Tim: I can imagine Coding Systems as a part of a larger movement, rather than a movement itself. In Europe, we are in a state of permanent indecision when it comes to information technology. […]

This is our new Content Hub

Dear friends,  We have news for you! After a long time of not publishing anythiang but continuously discussing the intersections of Coding and Systems, we finally released a series of conversations we had in the last months and years on our new website: www.codingsystems.info Each conversation has a comment section, which we hope you will […]

About

Hi and welcome! We are Coding Systems, a hybrid design practice led by Tim Rodenbröker and Martin Lorenz. We are exploring the intersection of Creative Coding and Flexible Visual Systems. Read more about how we work. Coding Tim Rodenbröker is a design educator dedicated to building a community-based online school. His teaching focuses on Creative Coding, an experimental […]

New Language

Tim: Some time ago you recommended to me the Podcast “The Great Simplification” which I love to listen to. In the last Episode, Indy Johar, the founder of Dark Matter Labs was a guest. He’s your colleague and a close partner, since you work at DML as a conversational design director. I loved the language […]

Llum Negra / La Luz Negra / Black Light

Custom design-software for CCCB Barcelona