Why Code?

"Green Brain99099" by Luis Ruiz

Why code?

Why make images, animations etc with code over say, Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, etc.?

Draw Shapes Illustrator

Do graphic designers need to code?

Coding For Graphic Designers Headlines
Damboise Jade Ramsey Linkedin

"When it comes to coding, graphic designers should be familiar with CSS, HTML and Javascript because these three programming languages are behind most web content."

— Graphic Design Degree Hub

Wireframe Figure Pencil Drawing
Zenith Optimus Rag Doll Processing P5js

If you paint a picture of Pinocchio, you have one pose. If you build one Pinocchio doll, then you can photograph as many different poses as you want. If you build a machine that makes different dolls…

— Jeremy Douglass

Tree Sculpture
Doval Victor Processing Growing Tree

If you make a sculpture of a flowering tree, it is flowering in exactly one way. If you plant one live flowering tree, its flowers can change day by day, and it flowers each year in ways that are similar yet different. If you build a machine that plants different flowering trees…

—Jeremy Douglass

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