Flexible Visual Systems (4th ed.) | Martin Lorenz

Flexible Visual Systems—a design manual for modern visual identities that can radically change the way designers think and work. The author of the book, Dr. Martin Lorenz, teaches how to create flexible systems that can be adapted to any aesthetic or project that requires a recognizable visual language.

Flexible Visual Systems summarizes:

10 years of research at the University of Barcelona,
20 years of working with visual systems at TwoPoints.Net,
18 years of teaching at over 10 universities in Europe.
If systems design were included in the curriculum, it would become a core course that shapes the right approach to work. It can be applied in various fields: from corporate and communication design to UX/UI and even textile design.

Book structure:
📌 Theoretical introduction (82 pages) - an overview of agile systems in the past, present, and future. It describes how they organize not only visual solutions, but also the work process itself.
📌 Practical section (148 pages) - step-by-step instructions for creating flexible visual systems based on a circle, triangle, square, pentagon, and hexagon.
📌 Transformational Processes – a section dedicated to how processes of change become the basis for visual identity. It will be of particular interest to creative coders, motion designers, and experimenters.

Mastering agile systems is not just a new skill, but a complete rethinking of the approach to design.