The making of: Mix Interiors #232 custom cover design

In many of M Moser Associates projects – including the Paris ‘testbed’ workspace we visit in this very issue – its team leverages technology to record data, enhancing user experience and supporting its commitment to goals like net-zero workplaces. For this cover’s artwork, the global design practice teamed up with British manufacturer Bisley to create a bespoke artwork highlighting its new colour range.

The M Moser team, including Jessica Adkins and Ali Tan Ucer, Creative Technologist at the New York studio, and Omar El Miedany, Data Scientist at the London studio, began by examining the Bisley product range — its use, form, materiality, and colour — and how these elements influence workplace user experience, prompting them to examine occupancy data collected from their Paris living lab across a month. Inspired by the gridded forms and bold colour washes of the Bisley products, M Moser created a generative 3D art piece driven by its dataset in Touch Designer.

This exploration of the relationship between product and user led M Moser to consider generative artwork to bring the two together. The team started by analysing occupancy data collected from our Paris living lab sensors over a week, a month, and a year. Using Touch Designer, they fed this data into a rig inspired by the geometric, gridded forms and colour drenching of Bisley products, seamlessly integrating product and user.

“Space is more experiential than ever,” says Adkins, “so with data we deepen connections between people and their environments, making real-estate portfolios smarter and more resilient. As a studio, we utilise technology to collect data, enhancing user experiences and supporting our goals, such as achieving net-zero workplaces. Our global Brand Experience team is particularly passionate about exploring the intersections of art and technology through various outputs.”

For Adkins and the team, one of the reasons generative art is so exciting is due to its unpredictability. “We had a great time experimenting with various parameters, producing a wide array of outcomes, and ultimately arrived at a composition we all loved. Finally, we retextured the artwork, embedding the word “MIX” within the contrasting reflective and powder-coated metal finishes of the forms.”

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