Benedikt Groß
Co Programme Director, MA Strategic Design
Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolBenedikt Groß is a strategic and computational designer with 11+ years of practice bridging academia, industry and open source, currently Co-Programme Director for the MA Strategic Design and Professor of Strategic Design at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd. He combines a Royal College of Art MA in Design Interactions and MIT Senseable City Lab experience with a track record of leading research labs (AI+D Lab) and design teams in product-focused settings like moovel and FREE NOW. Co-author of the widely used Generative Gestaltung, his work spans generative art, data visualization and human–technology relations, earning awards from Prix Ars Electronica to Information is Beautiful. As a hands-on developer he contributes to notable open-source projects such as the generative-design p5.js code package and the OpenMoji asset pipeline, improving tooling and workflows for designers and developers. He runs a studio since 2013, blending speculative design with practical engineering to prototype socio-technical systems and shape curricula. Based in Ravensburg, Germany, he is driven by curiosity about how people, data and environments co-evolve—often expressed through interdisciplinary, antidisciplinary collaborations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Visual Communication, Visual Communication at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNWMaster, Design Interactions, distinction, Master, Design Interactions, distinction at Royal College of ArtDiploma, Information and Media, Diploma, Information and Media at Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd
German, English
Github Skills (11)
video-processing10
computer-vision10
javascript10
ffmpeg10
p5js10
image-processing9
data-processing9
bash8
script8
python8
tensorflow7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hfg-gmuend/openmoji
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 793 commits, 210 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Benedikt contributed to the OpenMoji project by upgrading the emojibase-data dependency and integrating a custom emoji list for enhanced emoji table generation. They also added scripts for exporting and merging Illustrator AI files, improving asset generation workflows. Furthermore, they introduced a script for creating the index-list.html (catalog) based on the emoji data and added a script for creating the OpenMoji iOS project's sticker pack assets.
emojiopenmojisvgstyleguideemojis
generative-design/Code-Package-p5.js
Oct 2015 - Nov 2018
Code package of the book: Generative Design – Creative Coding for the Web with JavaScript in p5.js
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 130 commits, 147 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Benedikt contributed code to multiple sketches within the `generative-design/code-package-p5.js` repository. The commits focused on adding and modifying sketches related to generative art and design principles using p5.js. The user implemented interactive elements and geometric patterns based on given parameters and user input.
generative-artp5-sketchesgenerative-designjavascriptp5-js
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