Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of visual structures and systems.It is an essential reference book for designers, visual artists, architects,researchers and mathematicians. From the simplest grids made up entirely ofsquares to the most complex irregular ones with infinitely unpredictable patternsof growth, the book itself is a work of art.All visual information and forms, whether illustration, graphic design, paintingor architecture are compromised of two dimensional grids and patterns, muchlike the way that computer information is made up of zeroes and ones. Basedupon years of research, artist and musician Carsten Nicolai has discovered andunlocked the visual code for all visual systems into a systematic equation ofgrids and patterns.A CD accompanies the book and contains all of the grids and patterns featuredin the publication as editable vector graphic data files. This multifunctional anduniversal tool can be used effortlessly on virtually any platform, operating systemand graphics software such as Autodesk and Adobe Illustrator, and appliedto every field of visual culture. Grid Index can be used to map out the underlyinggrids of any single image or form and to create recurring geometrical grids ingraphic design.One of the most renowned German contemporary artists, Carsten Nicolai has continuedto work at the intersection of art and science. He has exhibited internationallyat Documenta X, the Venice Biennale and New National Gallery, Berlin. Hehas also released albums and staged performances with Ryuichi Sakamoto at theGuggenheim, New York, San Francisco MoMA and Centre Pompidou, Paris.With Grid Index, he has unlocked our world by formulating a universal index ofthe foundations of visual language. Comparable to Ernst Haeckl s Art Forms ofNature, this book is an indispensable tool for designers and scientists or anyoneinterested in the basic structure of the visual world.
