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Four versions of a typographic poster in different colours: white, red, pink and blue. Bold, fragmented letters and geometric lines are scattered across the page, including the words “SOT” and “SIA”.

Ricardo Leite's design generator software produces some interesting results

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Date
7 May 2013

Ricardo Leite is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer and art director, working across visual identity, editorial design and illustration. Combining two of those specialities – namely graphic design and illustration – Ricardo has developed a research project with interactive design company Kaue Costa called Sottsays! It is a software generator that spits out random compositions based around forms, and each format is created a as whole so they embody an entirely new meaning.

Ricardo has produced posters and booklets to illustrate what the kit can produce and we love the mishmash of shapes and colours showing the completely random compositions. Holy Moly!

An abstract illustration in deep blue and black. Sharp, geometric shards and hatched lines create a sense of depth, swirling towards a central point.
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Ricardo Leite: Sottsays!

Four green and white abstract illustrations are printed on a pale pink page. Each image features a dense, geometric composition of overlapping lines and shapes.
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Ricardo Leite: Sottsays!

A red and black poster featuring a series of complex, generative illustrations. The abstract, geometric patterns are arranged in a grid of varying sizes, with the words “Generative Illustrations” and “Modular Generative Graphics and Colours” appearing in small, clean typography.
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Ricardo Leite: Sottsays!

A yellow book cover features bold red lettering and geometric shapes arranged in a fragmented layout. Small text at the top reads “Visual essay about a generative bucket”.
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Ricardo Leite: Sottsays!

An open book with a bright yellow left page and a white right page. The yellow page features a block of text and the title “Ettore Sottsass. Design Metaphors”, while the white page contains a collection of black geometric shapes.
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Ricardo Leite: Sottsays!

An open book displays a series of bold, red and black abstract compositions on the left. The right page contains a column of text under the headings “Generative kit” and “Illustration concept”.
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Ricardo Leite: Sottsays!

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